The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast
Welcome to The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast. I'm Dr. Rob Thorup, Clinical Director at MPMB. In our podcast shows we help dentists profit and thrive with excerpts from The Clinical Business of Dentistry Training here at MPMB.This podcast is dedicated to helping dentists and their teams reclaim forgotten profitability in dentistry, and to learn business skills specifically designed for dental practices. We look forward to your subscription, and we hope you let your colleagues know about our podcast. For more information on our GUARANTEED training, please visit us at www.mypracticemybusiness.com and surf our website pages. Our mission statement is simple: We increase the monthly net revenue of dental practices with our key methods, tools, and training utilizing every day, need-based dentistry, even with PPO plans. And we teach you how to do it ethically, legally, and morally, adhering to contracts and state laws, so you can be paid fairly for the services you provide.
The My Practice My Business Dental Podcast
Collaboration Over Conflict: A New Model for Dental Success
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Robert Thorup, DDS
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Season 8
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Episode 5
I want to start today by talking about something that almost every dentist and practice owner I know has experienced at some point in their career.
Frustration.
Frustration with insurance companies.
Frustration with contracts.
Frustration with reimbursement.
Frustration with feeling unheard.
And when that frustration boils over, most dentists are told one of two things:
“You signed a contract.”
Or… “Just drop insurance.”
I’ve heard that response from state associations.
I’ve heard it from leaders in the dental industry.
I’ve heard it from colleagues.
And I struggle with it — not because it’s always wrong, but because it has become the default answer, and default answers don’t solve systemic problems.