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Less Insurance Dependence Explore a world where dentists thrive without the constraints of PPO plans! Tired of insurance draining your dental practice earnings? We are too!

Join us on a journey to 'Make Dentistry Great Again.' Discover how to reduce insurance dependency, boost profitability, and reignite your passion for dentistry. With over 200 episodes, we cover everything from marketing to overcoming PPO plan fears. Let's revolutionize the dental industry together!

09/18/2026

Every dentist and hygienist will tell you the same thing. An hour long appointment actually has 90 minutes worth of work packed into it.

In this clip from EP 409, Rushi Ganmukhi explains what gets cut first when time runs short: documentation, patient education, and the overall patient experience. These are the first things to fall off because they are hard to measure in the moment.

Voice AI gives back the 20 minutes typically lost to charting and notes, and that time flows straight into more thorough exams, more patient education, and ultimately, higher case acceptance.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4yG0uPo

Episode 409 is LIVE. 🎙️Rushi Ganmukhi came out of natural language processing research at MIT before founding Bola AI in...
09/17/2026

Episode 409 is LIVE. 🎙️

Rushi Ganmukhi came out of natural language processing research at MIT before founding Bola AI in 2017 to bring voice AI technology into dental practices.

In this episode, he explains why incomplete documentation is one of the biggest hidden reasons insurance claims get down coded or rejected, and how ambient voice AI captures more of what actually happens in the room, freeing up 20 minutes per patient that most practices lose to charting. That time flows straight back into patient care, case presentation, and trust, which is exactly what drives higher case acceptance.

Cleaner records, more time with patients, and stronger case acceptance. That is what a more independent practice looks like.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4yG0uPo

09/17/2026

A patient's crown didn't come back in time, and he left the practice angry.

In this clip from EP 408, Dr. David Moffet shares what he did next. He bought a $10 scratch lottery ticket, worth up to $62,000, and mailed it with a note saying how lucky they felt to have patients who understood things don't always go as planned.

That patient ended up telling more people about the recovery than he ever would have if the mistake had never happened. Sometimes it's flowers delivered before a patient even gets home. The point is always the same: find your weak processes and build a system to fix them before they cost you a patient for good.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4gLJQrH

Documentation is not just a time problem. It is a revenue problem.Episode 409 is coming soon. Rushi Ganmukhi, founder an...
09/16/2026

Documentation is not just a time problem. It is a revenue problem.

Episode 409 is coming soon. Rushi Ganmukhi, founder and CEO of Bola AI and a former MIT natural language processing researcher, joins Lester to explain how incomplete records quietly cost practices insurance reimbursements and how voice AI can close that gap without adding more work for the team. Stay tuned.

09/15/2026

Even as a business owner, your customers are your employer. If you don't look after them, they'll go elsewhere.

In this clip from EP 408, Dr. David Moffet shares a mindset shift inspired by a line from The Remains of the Day: a man's whole purpose is to serve. He says that's exactly what running a dental practice comes down to. It's also why he looked for team members with a genuine need to please, not just their boss, but their fellow employees and their patients too. That mindset shows up in every interaction and it's what keeps patients coming back.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4gLJQrH

09/14/2026

Nobody rings up the dentist because they have extra money burning a hole in their pocket. Dentistry is what Dr. David Moffet calls a grudge buyer.

In this clip from EP 408, he explains why that changes everything about how a practice should operate. Since patients aren't excited about the dentistry itself, the relationship with your team has to be what they actually look forward to. Coming in early to chat with the receptionist. Catching up on how a daughter's wedding is going. All of it matters more than most dentists realize, because it's the difference between a patient who tolerates coming in and one who genuinely enjoys it.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4gLJQrH

09/11/2026

Dan Kennedy once said if he had to start a business in any town, he'd look at what everyone else was doing and do the opposite.

In this clip from EP 408, Dr. David Moffet shares how that idea played out in his own career. When insurance owned clinics opened up nearby, he worried they'd steal his patients. Instead, those clinics pulled away the insurance driven patients, the ones chasing their yearly benefit, and left him with the patients who genuinely cared about their dentistry.

His practice got busier, not because he competed on insurance, but because he didn't need to.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4gLJQrH

09/11/2026

When a patient calls to cancel, your front desk shouldn't be the one arguing with them. Dr. Smith's notes should be.

In this clip from EP 408, Dr. David Moffet explains why cancellation calls need to shift the conversation away from the receptionist and back to the actual clinical risk. If the notes say a crack could spread or decay could turn into a root canal, that's what gets read back to the patient, word for word. The receptionist isn't the one making the case. The notes are.

🎙️ Full Episode → https://bit.ly/4gLJQrH

Most dentists are fixing the wrong problem. And that's exactly why the problem keeps coming back.Episode 408 is coming s...
09/10/2026

Most dentists are fixing the wrong problem. And that's exactly why the problem keeps coming back.

Episode 408 is coming soon. Dr. David Moffet, who grew his own practice from a small two room office into a $3.4 million business before spending the last decade coaching dentists worldwide, joins Lester to explain why symptoms like cancellations and unscheduled treatment are rarely the real issue, and how to find what's actually holding a practice back. Stay tuned.

Busy does not always mean profitable.Episode 405 is coming soon. Lisa Grogan, creator of the Platinum Practice Approach ...
08/19/2026

Busy does not always mean profitable.

Episode 405 is coming soon. Lisa Grogan, creator of the Platinum Practice Approach and the Lens Method, joins Lester to break down why so many full schedules are hiding real problems underneath, and exactly what it takes to attract and convert the high value cases that actually move a practice forward.

Stay tuned.

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