Dentists encounter numerous professional stressful situations, beginning from education to day-to-day practice. The resulting stress tends to have a negative impact on their personal as well as professional lives and causes burnout.
The main reason for this is their practice’s nature and personality traits, especially while pursuing dentistry as a carrier. Stress may lead to a negative impact on dentists’ personal as well as professional lives. In this episode, Gary shares tips to help dentists avoid burnout!
This episode also features a clinical tip on Injection tips from Dr. Greg Tuttle, DDS.
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Timestamps
Today’s Clinical Tip
- 00:03:58 – Injection tips from Dr. Greg Tuttle, DDS
Coaching In Action
- 00:10:12 – Why do practices that are insurance dependent cause burnout?
- 00:11:40 – Is burnout a common thing amongst dentists?
- 00:12:30 – What is the most common reason for burnout?
- 00:12:57 – What are the 4 things dentists need to know to avoid burnout?
- 00:16:05 – What is one of Gary’s tips to avoid burnout?
- 00:16:40 – Gary talks about a tip in a different direction for dentists to avoid burnout.
- 00:20:33 – Gary talks about an experience he had when was at a DSO leadership summit.
- 00:23:47 – Gary talks about another work style for dentists to avoid burnout.
- 00:25:07 – Why do dentists often feel isolated? How can they overcome this to avoid burnout?
- 00:26:40 – The last tip from Gary to avoid burnout.
Q&A Segment
- 00:29:17 – Question 1 – I am a practice owner and currently work five days per week and would like to cut back to four days per week. Can I produce the same or more working four days per week?
- 00:33:24 – Question 2 – I would like to add an Associate Dentist to my practice so that I can reduce my clinical schedule. How can I determine if I have enough production to support an Associate?
- 00:36:01 – Question 3 – I would like to do some charity dentistry. Can you recommend a good charity that would allow myself and my team to help those in need?
- 00:41:56 – Question 4 – I really enjoyed your episode about finding your community in dentistry. Any suggestions on specific communities that are worth engaging with?
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Gary Takacs
Gary became a successful practice owner by purchasing a fixer-upper practice and developing it into a world-class dental practice. He is passionate about sharing his hard-earned insights and experiences with dental practices across the globe. As a dental practice coach, Gary provides guidance for dental professionals on how to create a healthier practice style that lets them deliver excellent patient care while reducing depending on insurance.
More importantly, Gary’s insights are not just based on theory – as a co-owner of a dental practice, he has first-hand experience in making this transformation from a high-volume and low-fee insurance model to a fee-for-service approach that is more sustainable and promotes a patient-centric and financially healthy dental practice, and he is dedicated to sharing this knowledge with other dental practitioners via the popular Thriving Dentist Show!