This week Clint and Russ talk with Dr. Eric Studley. We discuss Eric's career from getting into NYU to starting a dental office in the 80's to founding Eric Studley & Associates Inc where he helps dentists with insurance. Overall it is a wonderful conversation.

This week Russ and Clint talk about upgrading their offices.

Russell is speaking at Cad-Ray's World Series of Digital Dentistry on Sept 5 to 7 2024. It should be great.

A few products that Russ and Clint talk about. We don't get a dime from any of these products

Yabangbang Handpieces

Tuttanaur Sterilizer

HDX CBCT

Apex Sensors

Handheld X-ray Units

Justin Shafer's Software that links cell phone photos to Dexis

Clint and Russell interview Dr. Bridgett Jorgensen out of Sugar Hill, GA this week. Bridgett ran a FFS office for many years and sold her office in 2018. She started Dental Practice Matchmaker after trying to find an office for her daughter to purchase during Covid and looking to upend the broker model completely. She and her company not only run the free Facebook page Dental Practice Matchmaker but also for 30 dollars a month you can be on her website and app Dental Practice Matchmaker to either look for a job, post a job, look to buy an office, or sell your office. We also talked a bit about her husband who started LightHouse 360.

Russell talks with Ashtyn Hoffer out of Vancouver, Canada this week. Ashtyn is a digital lab tech designer who focuses primarily on dentures. We talk about his experiences as a young lab learning from his father who is also a denturist and also how he has seen Exocad grow in the past few iterations as well as milling vs printing. Also Ashytn has a new lab focused on designing removable prosthetics. If you are interested in his services, go to The Center of Dental Excellence to see what he has to offer. He does great work and I highly recommend him.

Russell met Brandon Allison at Sprintray Next 2024 in Miami. Brandon is practices in Mandeville, La with his wife and brother (both dentists) in a family office. He and his wife took over from his father and has turned it into a bustling office to say the least. Brandon bought both the Sprintray 2 and Midas printer but also has a VHF E5 mill and does a lot of his own digital designs. We talk about his CE journey and about he strives to learn how to do excellent clinical dentistry while maintaining a good business.

Deren Flesher goes Totally Oral with Clinton Timmerman and Russell Schafer. He has a private practice in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and has found a niche giving advice to dentists in various ways they can invest.

Check out his podcast Wealth Beyond the White Coat and his website for Legacy Point Group to find out what pearls and advice he can offer you.

Harry Wheeler and Alistair Stoddart, two dental students from The University of Glasgow in Scotland, United Kingdom, had a chance to shadow Clint at Blu Dental & Wellness in Marysville, Washington, for a week.

Before they flew out, Clint had a chance to sit down and hear their story. Listen, and find out how dental school and the dental world is on the other side of the pond.

This week Russell talks with Jesse Flore, CDT out of Las Vegas. Jesse runs a specialty business supporting dentists who want to get involved in the digital world. Jesse got his start as a denture technician which obviously made Russell kinda geek out. Jesse is also an authorized Exocad distributor and helps implement mills and printers into dental offices. We talk for an hour about how the new MIDAS printer will likely go into dental offices as well as how milling and printing and designing should be implemented in offices. If you are looking to expand your dental office into a lab, call up Jesse Flor. He will be an excellent resource.

So Russell went to Sprintray's event and his SD card was corrupt and lost a great podcast with Vu Le... Vu graciously came back on to talk with him for an hour about the cool new happenings in the world of 3d printing. We discuss 3d printing, glidewell, and the MIDAS printer. Finally we talk about his invention the VPR which is a great tool that every single dentist needs to take excellent photographs with their cell phone. If you want to find out more about the VPR, go to Photodontist and buy one. We don't get any money from it, but Russell owns a VPR 400 and uses it regularly. They are great.

This week Russ and Clint speak with Patrick Allen who is a denturist from Maine who teaches dentures to lab techs, denturists, and dentists. Patrick and Russ geek on dentures because of course they do. We talk about lower suction dentures and how they work. Patrick is doing an upcoming course in Maine in June that Russ would highly recommend if you want to learn about dentures. It is June 14th and 15th and is phenomenal. Registation has been extended by a bit if you want to sign up. https://trellis.org/bps-semcd-w-paul-mcnally-peter-anastasia

Also we talk about how the Maine Dental Board does everything public apparently. If you want to listen in, you can hear it here.

https://mainestate.zoom.us/j/83015731890?pwd=QmhVTjRPNDZtLy9aRXZCS2VBOEJydz09 Meeting ID: 830 1573 1890 Passcode: 56815338