Are most dentists really stuck in the same career ruts as their peers across the profession? Yes, demonstrably. Walk into ten general dental practices in different cities and the pattern repeats. Same focus on the clinical aspects of the work to the exclusion of the operational and interpersonal aspects. Same patient frustrations about understanding their treatment. Same case acceptance rates hovering in the same range. Same plateau in revenue. Same complaints about insurance, about marketing, about staff. The shared pattern is not coincidence. It is the natural outcome of a profession that trains its members deeply in clinical work and barely [...]

Are most dentists really stuck in the same career ruts as their peers across the profession? Yes, demonstrably. Walk into ten general dental practices in different cities and the pattern repeats. Same focus on the clinical aspects of the work to the exclusion of the operational and interpersonal aspects. Same patient frustrations about understanding their treatment. Same case acceptance rates hovering in the same range. Same plateau in revenue. Same complaints about insurance, about marketing, about staff. The shared pattern is not coincidence. It is the natural outcome of a profession that trains its members deeply in clinical work and barely [...]

Are most dentists really stuck in the same career ruts as their peers across the profession? Yes, demonstrably. Walk into ten general dental practices in different cities and the pattern repeats. Same focus on the clinical aspects of the work to the exclusion of the operational and interpersonal aspects. Same patient frustrations about understanding their treatment. Same case acceptance rates hovering in the same range. Same plateau in revenue. Same complaints about insurance, about marketing, about staff. The shared pattern is not coincidence. It is the natural outcome of a profession that trains its members deeply in clinical work and barely [...]