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668: Your Practice Within Your Practice – Dr. Brent Bush

Do you want to better serve your patients, but don’t feel like you have the time? One solution is to create a practice within your practice. To help you get started, Kirk Behrendt brings in Dr. Brent Bush from The Pankey Institute to share his journey and experiences that changed his practice. You can slow down and still get busy! To hear how you can be a better dentist for your patients — no matter where you are — listen to Episode 668 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

You can’t afford not to do CE.

Go and seek the people who will help you.

Do the legwork of going to CE and workshops.

Choose to do the work that brings you the most joy.

Bring your team along with you on your learning journey.

Block out time to help your team implement your learnings.

Quotes:

“I had another buddy of ours from dental school, David Hedgecoe in Fayetteville. He was one of those practices where I was like, ‘How is he so busy? What is he doing different than I’m doing? I feel like I’m so busy and I’m going to burn out here. Why is he so busy doing cool stuff?’ I was busy and good. But, oh, boy, it was hard. And no joy, really, after you do your thousandth MOD. So, I realized that there was more to [dentistry], and I asked Todd [Davis], ‘What do I do?’ He said, ‘Well, you need to go learn.’ And so, I started to get on the CE train and do some workshops and seminars, and I hit it hard. That’s that thing where if you are going to bet on anybody, bet on yourself. I invested a bunch of money and a bunch of time — I didn’t think twice about it — to go learn how to be a better dentist for my patients.” (7:26—8:25)

“I think as a young dentist out there — and I was this way too. I’m no different than you are. If you’re the young one out there listening, I’m no different than you are. I just saw that there is a different way and maybe a more comprehensive way. To me, [having a practice within your practice] meant that there’s the everyday, bread and butter, do the fillings and crowns, but there’s also this niche that you can work for yourself, whether it’s orthodontics, or placing implants — for me, I became the bite guy — where you have an interest that inherently shows up, and you do more of it. The more you do it, the…