The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast
Welcome to The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast. I'm Dr. Rob Thorup, Clinical Director at MPMB. In our podcast shows we help dentists profit and thrive with excerpts from The Clinical Business of Dentistry Training here at MPMB.This podcast is dedicated to helping dentists and their teams reclaim forgotten profitability in dentistry, and to learn business skills specifically designed for dental practices. We look forward to your subscription, and we hope you let your colleagues know about our podcast. For more information on our GUARANTEED training, please visit us at www.mypracticemybusiness.com and surf our website pages. Our mission statement is simple: We increase the monthly net revenue of dental practices with our key methods, tools, and training utilizing every day, need-based dentistry, even with PPO plans. And we teach you how to do it ethically, legally, and morally, adhering to contracts and state laws, so you can be paid fairly for the services you provide.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Local Anesthesia, Suturing, and the ADA: We Need Your Help
We here at My Practice My Business are engaged in having restricting verbiage removed from the ADA CDT Code Books. Anesthesia and Suturing should not be given away as free ticket items …
To Permit Ignorance Is To Empower It
Ignorance and Complacency, two terms that hold dental practices back from learning how to achieve greatness.
Features vs. Benefits and the Purchases Dentists Make
Whenever sales reps from dental companies teach us about new technology available for purchase, they always teach us the features of the materials, machines, etc. What we need to hear i…
Fear Not the Power of Dental Fear: my interview with Wes Jankowski of CEO Dentist
Are we going to run our dental practices as a business or a hobby? We welcome our good friend and strategic partner, Wes Jankowski, to our podcast. Wes is the president and owner of CEO…
Why Periodontal Treatment Fails: a business approach
All too often patients with periodontal disease are seen for scaling and root planing, and then placed on "forever" periodontal maintenance. Hygienists save lives! Yet, the majority of …
They're Lowering Reimbursement Rates Again!
Delta Dental believes we make too much as dentists. More decreases from them, and other dental insurance plans, are on the way!
Read the CDT Code Book from the ADA
Dentists and dental office managers not reading the CDT Code Book cover to cover to operate their dental practice would be equivalent to a pilot not reading the pilot operating handbook…
Digital Images Cost Nothing: and other such nonsense!
I recently saw an exchange of thoughts on a national dental office manager forum where the large majority of OM's felt their docs should take digital images for free on patients where t…
GP's and Specialists: It's all about the patient!
I interviewed Dr. AJ Stosich of Aspire Oral Surgery here in Utah. It's always eye opening to get a specialists perspective on patient care, and AJ was kind enough to share his time with…
Office Managers: Be a Leader, Not a Follower
I had a grade school teacher who taught me to be a leader, not a follower. I hope that doctors and office managers, and all team members will stop following blindly those who profess to…
Memorial Day and Team Development
A tribute to the men and women who serve our country, and who have given the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy the freedoms our founding fathers built for us.
With that said, learn…
8 Crucial Facts About Patient Retention
Retention of patients, building and maintaining your dental practice, requires you to look at:
-Thought Leadership
-Office Culture
-Branding, or fulfilling your promises to patients and s…
Doctor, who is your competition?
Most would have us believe other dentists are our competition. However, our primary competition in dentistry is actually non-dental businesses that compete for our patient's dollars. In…
The "YNINDI" Syndrome
It amazes me how often I run into dental team members who suffer from the "YNINDI" Syndrome. This syndrome is no respecter of generations, dental team members, and often times includes…
Whitney, the Office Manager, Tells Her Story
Nothing is more powerful than hearing how an office manager pushed back with the insurance company, in a nice way, to benefit both the patient and the doctor she works for. Thanks to an…
Self-Induced Insurance Courtesies
When did it become a "badge of honor" to give your services away to PPO insured patients when you already are discounting your fees to the point of running in the red? This podcast addr…
Disney and your Dental Practice
Learn how your dental practice can benefit from attending Disney Institute. Nobody does customer service like Disney Corporation, and learning key customer concepts from Disney will gre…
Where did my profits go?
Learn how dental insurance companies are trying to change the business of dentistry.
Case Presentations are Sales Cycles
Learn the six touch points to dental case acceptance, and why they pattern the business sales cycles.
Practice Fees
Fee surveys are like the blind leading the blind. Set your fees by the methods we teach in this podcast.