Dr. Corey Hastings joins us on the podcast for this week's episode. Corey is a pediatric dentist in Missouri and recently opened his third pediatric office. He has an MBA and a passion for developing systems to optimize the delivery of quality pediatric dental care.

This was a live episode we did in-person over a couple of craft beers. The initial conversation was supposed to focus on demographics to support a pediatric dental office, and we ended spending almost an a hour and a half going deep into conversations on pediatric dental hot-button topics. This podcast is raw, unfiltered, and unscripted. It's a good one, even though we don't stick to an agenda! Some of things we talk about:

- Demographics for a pediatric dental office

- Rural vs urban pediatric dentistry

- Solo vs group practice, single-location vs multi-location

- Prophy palace vs restorative heavy practices

- How do you convince an associate to buy in? And are associates more likely to start their own practice?

- How pediatric dentistry can be an isolating profession