Most dental startups spend hours picking chair fabric and five minutes on culture. Then they open, patients can feel it, and the experience they meant to create gets defined for them by accident.

On this episode of The Startup Dentist, Stephen Trutter breaks down what it actually takes to build a patient-centered dental practice from day one, and the one exercise he runs with every client before they sign a lease or interview a single team member. You'll hear why "nobody comes back for the flooring," how to hire for mindset instead of resume, the small shift in patient communication that drives case acceptance, and the painful mistake startup owners make in the first six months that costs them their best team members.

If you're an associate dentist thinking about ownership and want to design a practice that grows by referral instead of ad spend, this is the foundation Stephen tells every client to build first.

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