The morning huddle is the cheapest, fastest, most under-used productivity tool in most orthodontic practices. Done well, it takes 10 to 15 minutes and saves the team hours of confusion, missed appointments, and avoidable problems across the day. Done poorly (which is most practices) it becomes a 30-minute meeting nobody
DSO consolidation isn’t slowing down. If you’re a private orthodontic practice, there’s a good chance at least one DSO-owned competitor opened in your market in the last three years, and there’s a near certainty another one will inside the next two. The first reaction most independent owners have is fear.
I started the GrowOrtho podcast for one reason. The orthodontic business conversations I was having behind closed doors with the country’s fastest-growing practice owners were the conversations every owner needed to hear. Most ortho podcasts are clinical. They’re great if you want to dig into bracket systems, aligner technology, or
Virtual consultations are no longer a pandemic experiment. By 2027, they’re a standard channel for orthodontic practices serving rural markets, multi-location regions, and patients who want to evaluate options before committing to an in-office visit. Done right, virtual consults convert at competitive rates and meaningfully expand the geographic reach of
Practice: Fishbein Orthodontics. Starting point: $2.4M annual production from one office. Result: $26M+ in annual revenue across 8 locations. Time elapsed: 7 years. The Starting Point When I met Dr. Ben Fishbein, his practice was a strong single-location office producing roughly $2.4 million in annual production. From the outside, it
Most practice owners I talk to about selling are asking the wrong question first. They want to know what their practice is worth. The right first question is whether selling is the right move at all. I’ve watched owners sell too early and regret it for ten years. I’ve watched
I’ve coached orthodontists at every scale. The single most underestimated risk for practice owners isn’t a competitor opening across the street or a DSO buying out a referrer. It’s burnout in the chair of the person who owns the place. Burnout doesn’t show up the way most people think. It
Practice: Harvey & Thomas Orthodontics. Starting point: $4.5M annual pace across 3 locations. Result: $9.5M in production by year-end. Time elapsed: 9 months. The Starting Point When Dr. Carter Thomas and his partner came to us in early 2023, the math told a familiar story. The group had grown by
Most TC scripts you’ll find online are either too generic to use or too aggressive to feel right. Neither works. The TCs in the highest-converting practices in the country are not reading from a script. They are running a structured conversation. The patient never feels sold to. The TC always