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Guiding you from associate to grand opening. The Startup Dentist podcast is the only podcast that helps Associate Dentists go from practice, to profit, to purpose in their journey to open their own dental practice startup. With more successful dental startups than anyone else, your host Stephen Trutter is here to share all that he, and the Ideal Practices team, have learned over the years of opening successful dental startups. To learn more visit us at: https://idealpractices.com
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Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
English
United States
58 episodes
since Feb. 3, 2020
episodic
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The job is fine and the money is good, so why do you keep thinking about owning your own practice? For an associate dentist, the pull toward practice ownership often shows up long before anything is actually wrong at work.
Stephen Trutter walks through the subtle signs an associate position has ru…
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An assistant that works 24 hours a day sounds like the perfect partner for opening a dental practice. But can AI actually help you become a practice owner, or can trusting it blindly create expensive mistakes you never see coming?
Stephen Trutter sits down with Jonathan, CEO of the practice manage…
Somebody is already paying for your education in practice ownership, and it is not you. Most associate dentists spend years inside a working business and never collect the lessons sitting in front of them every single day.
This episode covers ten of them. Stephen Trutter gets into what you can lea…
Most associates believe the first twelve months after opening a dental practice are about survival. Stephen Trutter has been part of nearly 1,000 startups, and he will tell you the strongest ones had already won or lost before they ever saw a first patient.
This episode is about what he calls the …
The dentist earning $220,000 a year was convinced he was failing. A young guy making minimum wage said he would trade places in a heartbeat. That gap explains almost everything about dental practice ownership in 2026, and it has very little to do with money.
In this episode, Stephen Trutter sits d…
The dentists who build the biggest success stories in dental practice ownership were not the ones with the least debt or the most money in the bank. So what actually separates them? After nearly 1,000 startups, Stephen Trutter has watched the same pattern play out every time, and it has almost noth…
Is a dental startup actually worth it? Seven years ago, Dr. Ben Friberg was an associate who quietly wondered if practice ownership was for other people, not for him. Today he produces over $2.2 million a year, takes ten weeks off, and has watched three DSOs open within a half mile without losing a…
Dr. Melissa is a practicing dentist, author, and host of the Dental Digest Podcast, and she is in the throes of building her own startup right now alongside Ideal Practices.
This is the first of three conversations we are sharing with Dr. Melissa as she builds, so you can follow the whole journey …
Most dental startups spend hours picking chair fabric and five minutes on culture. Then they open, patients can feel it, and the experience they meant to create gets defined for them by accident.
On this episode of The Startup Dentist, Stephen Trutter breaks down what it actually takes to build a …
Dental insurance isn't really insurance. It's closer to a coupon, and the second a new owner starts credentialing with every plan they can get into, they've made three quiet trade-offs that will define their dental practice for the next decade.
In this episode of The Startup Dentist, Stephen Trutt…
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