The Ten-Minute Ritual That Prevents Chaos in Dental Practices

The most underrated growth strategy in dentistry

The 8:30 PM Patient:

Why Online Scheduling Became a Competitive Weapon

Why Everyone Knows About Periodontal Disease But Nobody's Fixing It

AI Scribes in Dentistry

Why Documentation, Not Diagnosis, May Be the Biggest Unlock

Private Equity Didn't Kill Dentistry Complacency Did

Dentistry’s Middle Child Era: Not Booming, Not Breaking

What the Last Two Years Reveal About Dentistry’s Awkward Economic Phase and How Smart Practices Hold the Line

The Metric Between Marketing and Money

Why Revenue per Opportunity Matters More Than Leads

The 2026 CDT Codes Insurers Will Scrutinize First (And How to Stay Ahead)

A denial prevention guide for teams who hate rework

2026 CDT Codes Are Here (And They’re Trying to Tell You Something)

How smarter coding leads to better treatment plans, cleaner claims, and fewer “why wasn’t this covered?” conversations

Profit, Patients, and Tech: Balancing Care With Business Realities

Why dentistry us struggling to balance all three

Is the Economy Actually Bad, or Does It Just Feel That Way?

What happiness data, economic forecasts, and patient behavior reveal about spending decisions in dentistry

What Medicine’s Direct Primary Care Movement Can Teach Dentistry

(And why dentistry should be paying attention)

Dentists Are Burning Out Too

Here’s What We Can Learn From Medicine’s Warning Signs

The 2026 Dental Forecast: Same Storm, Sharper Tools

Same Storm, Sharper Tools

The Most Expensive Problem in Dentistry? Case Acceptance

They’re great with a handpiece... not so great at getting patients to say “yes.”

Submitting Clean Claims:

Winning the Insurance Game

Dental Insurance Reform:

A Wave of New Laws Across the States

Boosting Patient Collections:

Best Practices for Collecting Copays

TikTok, Tooth Tech & Time Travel — The Drill Down Begins 🌀

If you looked at your microwave clock, then your phone clock, and thought you were in a time warp, sorry to disappoint, but it’s just daylight savings messing with us again. This week we’re talking about AI taking over the world (jk, we still don’t know what “Alt + Tab” actually does in dentistry), healthcare premiums giving us the ick, five transformational killers straight out of a Freddy Krueger flick, and why teenagers keep doing stupid 💩 TikTok tells them to. We’ll wrap it all up with a surprisingly heartfelt story about “Dr. Violin.”

The Drill Down – Deep Dive: AI Takes the Drill

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down

Burned by Insurers: Why Patients (and Providers) Are Losing Faith in the System

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down

🎃 Leading Through the Scary Stuff: What Haunted Houses Teach Us About Leadership

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down

🖨️ In-Office 3D Printing: The Next Big Shift in Dentistry

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down

📈 Four Steps to Determine How Many Patients You Need Each Month

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down

🪥 The Dentist/Hygienist Divide: What’s Really Going On?

By Kemper Burt | The Drill Down