Dental shop talk with real practice texture.
The Very Dental Podcast Network covers dentistry as both a craft and a business. Episodes move from daily dentistry and skeptical patients to supply ordering, banking, AI phone agents, DSOs, and the future shape of dentistry.
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The Very Dental Podcast Network covers dentistry from the inside of the profession, where clinical decisions, office finances, equipment choices, and conference-floor friendships all blur together. It is not limited to one format. Some episodes are interview-driven Very Dental conversations led by Dr. Alan Mead. Others come through Very Clinical, where Zach Miners and Dr. Kevin Hare-Fryer trade chairside observations and daily-practice talk with an easier back-and-forth rhythm. The network spends real time on practice management. Supply ordering, overhead, banking, and dental-specific finance appear as ordinary concerns, not abstract business-school topics. That makes the show especially useful for dentists thinking about how their offices actually run. It also keeps one eye on the future. Episodes ask what dentistry may look like by 2050, how DSOs may affect the profession, and where AI could fit into front-desk work such as triage and phone calls. The clinical side remains present too. Very Clinical episodes touch on skeptical patients, new gear, experience, and the small judgment calls that make routine dentistry less routine than it sounds. The tone is informal. Hosts and guests joke about podcast lounges, Arizona weather, baseball, saunas, sponsor bits, and the odd social rituals around dental meetings. That looseness is part of the point. The conversations sound like dental people talking to other dental people after the formal session ends. Named guests bring outside angles, including Teresa Duncan, Kirk DeWert from U.S. Bank, Jay Glazer, Dr. Alex Kantor, Dr. Eric Applesies, Dr. Gary Holtzclaw, and Dr. Erin Elliott. The network's strength is range: business pressure, clinical craft, technology anxiety, and professional camaraderie all share the same feed. It suits listeners who want dentistry discussed with practical specificity and a sense of humor. It is trade talk with coffee nearby, not polished keynote theater.
Made for: Dental professionals, practice owners, clinicians, and dental-team members who want practical conversations about the business and daily craft of dentistry. It especially fits listeners who like useful detail delivered in a casual, colleague-to-colleague style.
What sets it apart: The network combines practice finance, clinical tips, technology speculation, and conference-style banter in one feed. Its strongest moments feel less like formal education and more like candid dental people comparing notes between appointments.
The Very Dental Podcast network brings you entertaining and relevant conversations with visionaries, clinicians and your friends in the dental space.
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AI at the front desk, with dentistry's daily strain in view.
This Very Clinical episode keeps its focus on a practical problem: how an AI agent might take dental calls, help triage a broken tooth, and steer Medicaid seekers toward the right offices. Zach Miners and Dr.
A grounded dental practice sale discussion that links valuation to ambition, financing, and life after the deal.
Practice sales rarely behave like clean valuation exercises. This Group Function episode stays with the harder question behind the numbers: what kind of growth the owner wanted, and how that ambition could shape the options when a buyer enters the picture.
A candid look at average dentistry, practical composite teaching, and a finish that feels polished.
Alan Mead opens by placing himself squarely in the middle of the bell curve of dentists, and that plainspoken frame carries through the discussion of why BioClear in Tacoma stayed with him.
Real talk for veterinary practice leaders.
Sales systems for serious electrical contractors.
Dr. Alex Kantor and Dr. Eric Applesies reveal how to increase your practice's value before a sale, based on their recent presentation.
Dr. Alan Mead admits he's an average dentist and asks how to improve patient outcomes with an average skillset.
This episode features a casual conversation with Dr.
This episode features an interview with Kirk DeWert from U.S.
Damien Bonner explains how Shining 3D's Ceramics Nano uses pressurized capsules for ceramic-filled restorative resin rather than conventional liquid-vat printing.
Alan Mead and Bart Schultz use phased implants, sinus grafts, and the phrase "What am I here for now?" to examine why dental patients forget treatment plans.
Alan Mead, a Michigan dentist with 29 years of experience, connects difficult extractions to the fixed fees used in general dentistry.
The Very Dental Podcast Network examines Freed AI, an AI scribe used by Giles Damron and more than 30,000 clinicians across over 100 specialties.
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The host, a dentist who graduated in 1997 and has been sober since early 2002, says Instagram sobriety influencers bother him because they promote rather than attract, citing the Narcotics Anonymous principle of "attraction rather than promotion." He compares their before-and-after hospital photos, yoga, and mocktails with his own early recovery in church basements with "bad coffee." He applies the 12-step term "pink cloud" to dental Instagram, where influencers skip patients who "don't open well" and cases that needed remakes.
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This episode features an interview with Teresa Duncan at the Chicago Midwinter dental event, discussing dental practice challenges with supply ordering and promoting Net32 as a solution for clearer choices and pricing.
This episode features a conversation about the future of dentistry in 2050, covering topics like technology, AI, and DSOs, originally recorded as a guest appearance on another podcast.
This episode promotes Net32, a platform designed to help dental practices make clearer supply purchasing decisions by providing transparent pricing and vendor comparisons without sales pressure.
This episode features an interview with Kirk DeWert from U.S.
This episode of the Very Clinical Podcast discusses how dental practices can navigate supply ordering uncertainty and make smarter purchasing decisions, featuring an ad for Net32 and casual banter between hosts.
Zach Miners, Kevin Hare-Fryer, and Alan compare everyday dentistry failures on Very Clinical, including tooth 3 anesthesia, root tip extractions, and crown adjustments.
This episode discusses how dental practices can lower overhead by using Net32 for clearer supply ordering with transparent pricing and vendor comparisons.
This episode of the Very Clinical Podcast discusses how dental practices can improve supply ordering with clearer choices and reduced uncertainty, featuring a sponsorship from Net32 and hosts Zach Miners and Dr.
This episode of the Dental Hacks Podcast features hosts Alan Mead and Jay Lips introducing episode 195 with casual banter about reaching 200 episodes, while promoting Net32 for dental supply clarity.