Dr. Chris Griffin Show: Simple Practice Breakthroughs To Make Your Life Easier

We’re back with Chris Moriarity, productivity specialist and overall great guy. In this episode Chris shares how he would approach the problem that I have been having lately…. Low Case Acceptance. No guys, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.  You just have to roll up your sleeves and solve the problem. Chris breaks me down and then builds me up. You’ve got to hear it, then you’ll understand.

Dr. Emily Letran is someone special in our profession. An immigrant from Vietnam, she has become a true leader in dentistry and an inspiration for women dentists everywhere. Her story is a tear-jerker, but the way she has conquered life step-by-step will leave you looking for her name on seminar stages all around. Listen in and you will learn how she: Drove the fast track from communist food lines to high achiever and even became so good at this, she is now a certified coach Finds a way to always take Action to Win even though she is ‘busier’ than dentists who feel ‘maxxed out’ Has created a seminar series to teach others how to take massive action She is truly an inspiration.  Don’t miss out!

Chris Moriarity has worked with enough dentists by now that he knows that massive hyper-production is not the only important statistic.  He also helps solo and private practicing dentists find out what makes them happy in their profession.  Of course he knows how to make their production numbers rain down if that’s what they want. Here’s part 1 of a very interesting discussion that was planned for only one episode, but was found to contain too many gems to edit down that much.  

We caught up with a true Stand Out Dentist, Dr. Ron Receuver of Louisville, Kentucky.  He totally transformed the way he practices over the past decade to become the go-to guy when locals think of dental implants in that area. If you want to learn how to stand out as an implant dentist or just to transform your practice period, you should pay close attention to this interview. In it you will learn: How he transitioned from insurance dependence and general practice to “The Implant Guy” How he learned a much better way to attract the patients he wanted than the ‘Standard’ discounted and free offers most dentists fall victim to thinking work (Hint: they really don’t anymore) How to Dominate Your Market Area doing things that scare most dentists And Much, Much More…

One of the biggest questions that I keep hearing is, “When Can I Safely Retire?” Well, if you have had that thought rolling around in your head, today is your lucky day.  Jerry Jones is a practice owner and a dental marketing coach extraordinaire for over a decade.  He has also been hearing that a lot lately and I sat down with him to see what best practices he has seen work from his dentists who were in that same boat. In this episode you will learn: Great options for dentists who want to ‘Slow Down’ but don’t want to actively retire. The Revenue numbers that dentists need to be hitting if they want to actually Get Out of dentistry safely. The Top Mistakes that he and I have both seen dentists make when they try to Get Out Too Soon.  Plus how to avoid being a statistic in that regard. And Much, Much More…

Dr. Mark Costes is the founder of multiple dental practices and also of the wildly successful Dental Success Institute.  Today, he gives his unique experiences to answer questions about dentists and their path toward growth and retirement. In this episode you will learn: The things you MUST get right if you even want to consider owning multiple practices (most shouldn’t) The most common mistakes he has personally seen dentists make as they try to choose a new way to practice and how could they have simply avoided them if they followed this simple principle. The very best options he has seen for dentists who want to slow down, but don’t want to retire and can’t imagine their income going down. And Much, Much More…

A 4th generation CEO is breaking traditions and breaking the mold of the way that dental supply companies communicate with today’s dentists. Julie Charlestein reveals the cutting edge ways that she is steering her company, Premiere Dental, into the next frontier of interactive patient treatment alongside a new generation of dentists who value collaboration moreso than most every generation in the past. In this episode you will learn: Why millennial dentists think about practice differently than “old Gen Xers” (Note: both Julie and Dr. Griffin are Gen Xers) and the media that her company is using to communicate in a way that’s a win-win. How the ‘3 Day Dentist’ is becoming the norm for new dentists who are seeking to become the most balanced generation of dentists EVER How a “nimble” company like Premiere can take advantage of the newest advances in multiple channel supply fulfillment to help agile dentists avoid headaches and unnecessary aggravation. And Much, Much More…

Dr. Jason Luchtefeld is changing the face of one of the most famous dental conferences in the U.S.  He joins us to discuss how the Dentaltown Townie meeting is staying ahead of the times and how they are innovating next year’s event to stay relevant with the changing tastes of today’s dentists.  Dr. Luchtefeld also reveals how the Townie is not only embracing technological advances, but making sure that dentists who commit their precious time to attending leave with multiples of ROI on their investment of time and money. On this episode we will unveil: How Howard Farran is constantly challenging the Townie Meeting team to innovate and stay ahead of the field How unique tracks at this year’s Townie meeting will triple the value of attendees there How the CE Director at a Top 5 Dental Meeting can bring value to attendees for years after they attend And Much, Much More…  

Walt Disney and Steve Jobs Inspired the Most Amazing Team Bonus System in History.  Learn how you can convert it to your dental practice to motivate and reward your dental team WITHOUT creating a monster, runaway bonus system that will eventually wreck your practice and make everyone miserable. In this episode you will learn: How to identify a Death Spiral Bonus before it makes everyone miserable and kills your team unity  How to apply the Silicon Valley System to your Practice in a way that could double your practice and make your team love you for it!  You can stop spending THOUSANDS each year with big marketing companies and slick consultants who try to convince you that your results are better than they actually are. And Much, Much More…

Season 2 Premiere – Our new direction will be 2 fold. First, we want to draw attention to the declining popularity of Live CE and to promote the 7 reasons why it is an integral part of our profession that we cannot let die. Secondly, we want to re-commit to our belief that a motivated, happy dental team will always outperform teams that aren’t enthusiastic and engaged. That can make all the difference in your practice and in turn, your life. In this episode you will learn: 5 Big Excuses Dentists Make to Not Attend Live CE that mark them as candidates for early retirement 7 Big Benefits of Attending Live CE that Sub-Par Dentists Ignore and Winning Dentists Use to Their Advantage Every Day The Power of a Motivated Team in Creating the Practice and Lifestyle You Really Want at Work and at Home The Danger of Living with a Death Spiral Bonus in Place And Much, Much More…

We’ve come to the Season 1 Finale and it has been quite a ride.  As we finish this year I wanted to make sure that everyone listening understood that moving forward, this show will be focused on the Solo, Private General Practitioner. Along those lines and following up on the 7 Big Problems we talked about last episode, today’s episode will focus on 7 Inconvenient Truths that Will Continue to Drive the Direction of the Solo Dentist in America. If you can understand these and align your practice accordingly, you stand a great chance to prosper moving forward. In this Episode You Will Learn: The ONLY Circumstances that must exist if you are going to practice as a “Cutting Edge” Insurance-Free (relatively speaking) Practice.  As Fox Mulder once said, “They are out there.”  But, as I say, “They are hard to find and harder to make successful.” Where the Search for “New” Income will have to come from during the next decade.  It is the only place left to look and it will cause some serious friction in our prof

It is true that we are members of one of the greatest professions on the planet right now.  It is also true that anxiety is growing about our future.  Today, I address a question that has become all too frequent at my seminars, “What is the Biggest Problem Facing Dentistry Today and How Can We Solve It?” After putting a lot of thought into that question, I have come up with 7 Big Problems and 3 Rules that Can Fix All of Them if we have the will to impose them. In this Episode You Will Learn: How Dentistry is Slowly Losing it’s Heart and Soul Due to Outside Forces and How You Can Build a Wall Around the Heart of Your Practice that Will Make You the Strongest Practice in Your Area How Inaction and Shortsightedness Have Plagued Our Profession as of Late and How You Can Use Farsightedness to Innovate While Others are Fearful to the Point that They Will Become Pawns of the Next Phase of the Takeover How we Should Be Using the Ronald Reagan Rule to Keep Us Alive in the Evolutionary Fight tha

One of the first line items to get blamed when things aren’t going all that well in your practice is your office overhead.  While there are many instances where Overhead is the culprit, the way that dentists look at overhead and how to attack it, often overlooks the most effective ways to cure the disease. Today we dive into some of the less obvious and most powerful ways you can whip your overhead numbers into shape so that they work for you instead of dragging your practice down like a bag of bricks over your shoulder. In this episode you will learn: The magic of Identical Room Setups in Same Day Capabilities to Boost Daily Numbers up to Your Next Plateau for Good. The Ordering System to Almost Guarantee 5% Clinical Supply Costs so You Can Quit Worrying Over Which of You Favorite Supplies You Have to Do Without Each Month to Avoid Going Over Budget and Catching “Over-Ordering Syndrome” How a Simple Check Can Transform a Dull, Uninspired Team into a Team of Superstars Who Will Pull You

It you are victim of the “Chronic Cancellation Disorder” this episode is for you. We are NOT going to tell you we can solve this problem for you! Instead, we have a very unique way of dealing with the issue that is a complete Win/Win for you and the patients.  Listen up and we’ll reveal this Strategy Step-by-Step. In this Episode you will Learn: Our Famous and Very Controversial Hygiene Scheduling Strategy that Causes Audiences to Gasp Across the Nation….But, Solves the Cancellation Problem Every Time it is Tried How You Fit into One of the 4 Quadrants of Dentistry and How You Can Profit in any of the Top 3 of them You Choose How to Recognize the 5 Overhead Monsters Lurking in Every Practice and How to Shine the Light on Them So You Can Destroy the Beast How to Stop Whining About How Your Patients Lie to You and How You Can Smile All the Way to a Full Schedule Anyway And Much, Much More…

Running late is one of the Top 3 causes of Doctor stress and burnout in the U.S.  While it is truly impossible to KNOW exactly how long each appointment will take, it is very possible to control a schedule in a way that allows for speed, efficiency, quality, and staff happiness. Today we will discuss several tools that if employed can solve 80% of Doctor’s Stress Problems. In this Episode you will Learn: How to Solve the Hygiene “Jaws” Scenario Before It Happens So You Don’t Get Your Blood Boiling From a Distance The Reason Why Some Dentists Prep So Slowly, (and why they really aren’t being slow on the important parts) and How You Can Slash Minutes Off Each Prep. Why Doctor Stress is So Rampant and the Characteristic that Can Dissolve 80% of Your Stress if You Strengthen the Trait And Much, Much More…

What if there were a way you could harness all that chaos, visualize the path of highest productivity with the least stress, and create a Workflow that allowed you to create a lifestyle that was ideal in every way: money, time off, happiness, fulfillment…. There is and it’s the concept of Visualized Workflow. In this episode you will learn: The 3 Ways You Can Project this Powerful Principle into Action in Your Practice Immediately for Less than 5 Bucks! How to Install ‘Signal Boards’ for Your Front Office, Your Clinical Staff, and Yourself So You Never Let Important Projects or Tasks Slip Through the Cracks Exposing Your Practice and Personal Lives to Massive Lost Opportunity Costs that Can Wreck Your Retirement and Make Your Everyday Existence Miserable The Proper Way to Create Retrospective Meetings that Maximize Future Benefit for Minimal Time Investment that Streamline Your Team’s Productivity Every Day and Every Week. And Much, Much More…

Dental practices have been attempting to go completely digital for the last decade.  It is a HUGE challenge. Today we discuss how we created a Hybrid Model that not only solved our ‘digital’ problem, but also solved the communication problem between the clinical and front office team members. In this episode you will learn: How Solving the Digital Problems that Have Kept Us From Paperless Perfection for So Long The Hands-Down Best Scanner on the Planet that Can Slash Hours from Your Team’s Workload of Useless Busy Work The Reasons Why You Struggle to Present Correct Financials Using Only Digital and the Way to Solve This Once and For All The Secrets Behind Fast Financial Arrangements and How Any Front Office Person Can Master Quick and Accurate Treatment Presentation Leading to Case Acceptance And Much, Much More…. Read Full Transcript The Dr. Chris Griffin Show – Season 1 Episode 18 “The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links and the evolutionary story,

The 7 Deadly Wastes are paramount in any profitable production system in the world.  In this episode we will delve into the 7 Wastes that Kill Dental Practices and Eat Away at Their Profits from the Inside Out.  Learn how to Destroy these Internal Rots and You Will Be Well on Your Way to Creating a Profitable Practice Powerhouse. In this Episode You Will Learn: Why I Despise Block Scheduling and a Better Way to Create Consistently Profitable Scheduling Why Opportunity Cost is THE #1Killer of Practice Profits and How You Can Identify, Resolve, and Take Advantage of this Amazing Profit Center No Matter How You Choose to Practice How to Make Your Operatories Quickly Deployable “Cycle Time” Weapons instead of Cluttered, Dusty Millstones Around the Neck of Your Practice Slowing Down Your Team and Your Production The Most Powerful Statistic Any Dentist Can Ever Track, that the Top 1% All Monitor and that I am 99% Sure You Won’t Be Brave Enough to Measure, Regardless of How Much Money it Will

The 7 Deadly Wastes are paramount in any profitable production system in the world.  In this episode we will delve into the 7 Wastes that Kill Dental Practices and Eat Away at Their Profits from the Inside Out.  Learn how to Destroy these Internal Rots and You Will Be Well on Your Way to Creating a Profitable Practice Powerhouse. In this Episode You Will Learn: Why I Despise Block Scheduling and a Better Way to Create Consistently Profitable Scheduling Why Opportunity Cost is THE #1Killer of Practice Profits and How You Can Identify, Resolve, and Take Advantage of this Amazing Profit Center No Matter How You Choose to Practice How to Make Your Operatories Quickly Deployable “Cycle Time” Weapons instead of Cluttered, Dusty Millstones Around the Neck of Your Practice Slowing Down Your Team and Your Production The Most Powerful Statistic Any Dentist Can Ever Track, that the Top 1% All Monitor and that I am 99% Sure You Won’t Be Brave Enough to Measure, Regardless of How Much Money it Will

Today we flood the airwaves with the Ultimate Dental Productivity System that was crafted as a direct result of the careful application of Asian Efficiency principles from the LEAN Management Theory into the American Private Dental Practice.  Some call this the Samurai Production System because it cuts out all the waste associated with most offices and still leaves room for the Cowboy Way in us to be creative and our own dentist. In this episode you will learn: How Color Coding your Operatories and Sterilization Rooms can save you Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars over Your Career How We Use Rows of Bins in the Toyota Style to Save Enough Time Each Week to Take a 4 Day Weekend EVERY WEEKEND, and How You Can Easily Adapt This to Make Your Family a LOT Happier. The Adaptation of the Powerful Japanese concept of Kanban Signal Boards to Direct the Entire Day to Make My Daily Routine Brain-Dead Easy so I Can Focus on the Patients and Build a Connection that Builds a Curtain of Solid Steel Around My Patient Poo