Stop Selling Dentistry. Do This Instead.
What if the very things you're doing to improve case acceptance are actually making patients more hesitant to say yes? Some dentists are too...
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The Relentless Dentist Show with Dr. David Maloley
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20 of 621 episodes6 Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes Even Great Dentists Make
What if your next hire costs you your best employee? One bad hiring decision can destroy team morale, drive away your best people, and leave...
When Being a High-Achieving Dentist Starts Working Against You
What if the qualities that made you successful are now limiting what comes next? Your work ethic. Your standards. Your ability to carry more...
How to Stop Losing Good Patients and Great Employees
What if patient attrition and employee turnover are two symptoms of the same leadership blind spot? In this episode, Dr. Dave reveals: Three...
What Did Abraham Maslow Know About Building a High-Profit Dental Practice?
You can have a highly profitable dental practice and still spend your days solving problems you shouldn't be worrying about. A legendary psy...
Why Nice Dentists End Up Paying the Highest Price
The most expensive decisions in a dental practice feel incredibly generous in the moment. That’s why it’s so easy to keep doing. In this epi...
The Hidden Profit Already Inside Your Practice
Your practice can be healthy, busy, and well-run and still have much more profit potential. In this episode: Why excellent practices do not...
The 6 Confidence Gaps Killing Your Case Acceptance
If your case acceptance is lower than it should be, you may be using the wrong model. Dentistry has mostly lived in two camps... 1. Old scho...
Dignity, Standards, Profit — One Of Them Goes First
Dental practice ownership reveals what you value most and what you sacrifice first. In this episode, Dr. Dave breaks down the three things e...
What Elite Athletes Understand That Dentists Don’t
Elite athletes train their mental game before the pressure arrives. Dentists usually think about it after something goes wrong. In this epis...
6 Conditions That Shape How Your Dental Team Actually Behaves
“Improve your leadership.” “Build a better culture.” Dentistry loves giving practice owners advice that sounds important and tells them almo...
Death Is the Ultimate Practice Performance Tool
What is your practice costing you that never shows up on the P&L? In this episode, Dr. Dave explores how mortality can sharpen your decision...
The 10 Mental Models That Make Dental Practice Owners Dangerous
What if one better question could unlock more profit, a stronger team, and more time out of the office? In this episode, Dr. Dave shares 10...
Why Successful Dentists Break Down
You can be at the top of your game clinically while the rest of your life starts falling apart. Most dentists never see it coming. Productio...
The 4 Forces Behind Every Self-Managing Dental Practice
What if your team's hesitation is a biological response to uncertainty? Research shows that unclear expectations and authority create stress...
Day 30: AI Will Expose Weak Dental Teams
For 29 days, it looked like Dr. Dave was teaching flow triggers. But in the final episode of the Flow Protocol series, he reveals what those...
Day 29: The Referability Flywheel Big Dental Can’t Buy
Corporate dentistry can copy more than most dentists want to admit. The equipment. The software. The scripts. The offers. The polish. Even t...
Day 28: The Future Will Not Forgive Human Underperformance
A full schedule used to hide a lot. In 2026, it doesn’t. The team is working hard. The schedule is packed. The owner is exhausted. But under...
Day 27: The Performance Standard That Prints Profit
Production pressure has a strange side effect: it can make good teams worse. Employees tighten up. Patients feel it. Handoffs get sloppy. An...
Day 26: Is Your Morning Huddle Charging the Team or Draining the Day?
Some dental teams lose momentum before the first patient ever sits down. The schedule looks clear. The numbers got reviewed. Everyone nodded...