Dr. Brady Smith, DDS talks to Dr. Justin Trosclair DC on A Doctor's Perspective Podcast.
Charity work in your
profession will help you feel fulfilled. We discuss a true dental franchise
group that...
Dr. Brady Smith, DDS talks to Dr. Justin Trosclair DC on A Doctor's Perspective Podcast.
Charity work in your
profession will help you feel fulfilled. We discuss a true dental franchise
group that allows you to make a great living, being your own boss and have
coverage on vacations. Brady Smith DDS of
Drilled Podcast.
Five years into real world dentistry with a company he loves, Comfort Dental, and he was genuinely not liking being a dentist. Doing a free dental makeover for a deserving person was the key to his turn around.
Drilled Podcast and Charity
Work
We discuss charity cases and the impact on your community, your own psyche and frankly the goodwill it brings to your clinic. Dr. Smith encourages more dentists to find one person a quarter to transform their smile and transform their self-confidence. It gives him the drive to do more each day knowing he can help someone in the future.
Part of his podcast “Drilled” has comedians, dentists and non-dentists and he has a nomination process to pick the next full dental restoration case because word got out he does free work. Listen to see how you can be a part of such a fulfilling and radical movement.
Drilled Podcast Network is a nonprofit looking to help with the fulfillment of doing cases for free, even partnering with companies to get implant materials for free too. Contact Dr. Brady to join.
Each episode he says a secret word and gives away $500 worth of dental care.
Comfort Dental © Side
When your profession has a semi-reputation of doing things just for the money, how do you break down that barrier and build that trust factor?
He wants to be an office that breaks down barriers to care. How does that reflect in his payment policy?
Many people believe that if they lose or don’t have dental insurance then they just can’t go and /or afford it.
DSO or Corporate dentistry. Why the bad reputation and how does comfort dental buck that trend? Each location is individually owned and operated, much like a Taco Bell© or Starbucks©.
You aren’t fully autonomous (you can’t just buy equipment from unapproved vendors) and in comfort dental model, you don’t have a Non-Dentist Dictating treatment.
Why is it so important to not have a non dentist setting quota and goals for a dentist to hit each day?
Staff
The doctor only needs to be cordial, civil and competent. Staff on the other hand need to be friendly and helpful etc.
What are you looking for in staff when it’s so easy to see people fake it?
90 day policy on new hires, he explains the how and why.
Why does Dr Smith choose to do his OWN cleanings and not hire dental Hygienists?
How much overhead do you pay each month?
The more hours of productivity should equal more income to support your family. His overhead is 50% and they are open 7:30 – 7:30 six days a week… does he work that whole time?
Run away from your overhead, have more hours, do more business, collects more money and now overhead goes down (besides just cutting expenses).
What’s a general figure for owning a piece of the comfort dental franchise and how to get funding even as a new graduate?
When you can make 2-3x the money as an owner, why would you choose to be an associate for longer than necessary?
Personal Side
Perk of having associates or franchise owners, especially throughout a city, is that you can have someone fill in for you easily during vacation weeks.
Would you move your successful practice and friends to another state so your spouse could be more happy?
www.Drilledpod.com drilledpodcast on IG as well as the charity announcement and a youtube channel.
Show notes can be found at http://www.adoctorsperspective.net/142 here you can also find links to things mentioned and the full transcript.
Full Transcript of the Interview (probably has some grammatical errors). Just Click to expand
Justin Trosclair 0:06
Episode 142 charity work in franchise dentistry.
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