The Dental CEO Podcast

Your Equity Could Be Worthless: What to Know Before Selling to a DSO

Selling your dental practice to a DSO? Some dentists who took part of their payout in DSO equity may end up with nothing to show for it. In this episode, Scott Leune sit

The Acquisition Trap: Why This Dentist Skipped Buying a Practice and Opened a Startup

Dr. Divya Patel was two years out of dental school when she made a decision most dentists take a decade to make: open her own startup instead of buying an established pra

Direct Mail, ChatGPT Ads & Google: What's Actually Working in Dental Marketing Right Now

ChatGPT just rolled out ads for small businesses, and dentists are already testing it, often with no idea what they're doing. In this episode, Scott Leune sits down with

Retire Twice: Why Waiting Until 65 Is the Worst Retirement Plan for Dentists (Part 2)

Last week's episode challenged the traditional path to retirement. This week, Scott Leune gets tactical: what should you actually be doing in dentistry, right now, at you

Retire Twice: Why Waiting Until 65 Is the Worst Retirement Plan for Dentists (Part 1)

What if the traditional retirement plan, work hard for 40 years and finally retire at 65, is actually the reason so many dentists end up burned out, broke on experiences,

The Dental Supplier You've Probably Never Heard Of, Solving Dentistry's Biggest Problem

Episode 80: There's a good chance you've never heard of DHP. While Schein, Patterson, Darby, and Benco dominate the conversation around dental equipment and supplies, DHP

Mo Shirin Built Europe's Largest Full Arch DSO in 8 Years. Now He's Coming for the U.S.

Episode 79: In 2019, a 22-year-old flew from Dublin to Texas to take three of Scott's courses back-to-back, so eager to learn he came back a second time just to finish th

One Procedure, $1.5M+ in Additional Collections at a 90% Margin: The Best-Kept Secret in Dentistry

Episode 78: Scott sits down again with Justin Warcup, a pediatric dentist in Dallas-Fort Worth, to break down the numbers behind pediatric airway dentistry and the system

Is There Ever a "Right Time"? Building a Booked-Out Dental Startup While Raising 3 Kids Under 5

Episode 77: Is there ever really a "right time" to start a practice? In this episode of the Dental CEO Podcast, Scott sits down with Dr. Stamatis Kouniaris and his wife K

Why Most Dentists Settle for Mediocre

Scott Leune sits down to give young dentists the advice he wishes someone had given him. He breaks down the four numbers every associate should be tracking, why a high-in

AI Is Becoming the Operating System of Your Practice

Radiologic AI was just the beginning. In this episode, Scott sits down with Ophir Tanz, founder and CEO of Pearl, to unpack how AI has evolved from a single feature into

$4M in Debt and His Partner Left. You Won't Believe What Dr. Omar Virani Did Next

$4 million in debt. A business partner who walked away. That's the position Dr. Omar Virani was in, and it would have ended most people's dental careers right there. Inst

The AI-Enabled Virtual Team: How Copilots Are Transforming Dental Practice Support

Virtual administrative teams are already helping thousands of dental practices handle insurance verification, billing, claims, and phones, and now AI copilots are layerin

Why Your Associate Isn't Producing (And How to Fix It)

Why do some associate dentists produce five times more than others seeing the exact same number of patients? In this episode of The Dental CEO Podcast, Scott Leune breaks

Where Your Profit Is Hiding: Scott Analyzes Actual P&Ls

In this solo episode of The Dental CEO Podcast, Scott Leune reads three real profit and loss statements line by line and shows you exactly where practice profit hides. Wa

How Selling to a DSO Costs Dentists Millions (Scott Breaks Down a Real Offer)

A dentist got an unsolicited $9.8M offer to sell his practice — and on paper it looked incredible. So why is walking away the smarter move? Scott Leune breaks down the re

The Husband-and-Wife Dentists Reinventing Themselves at 61

After 33 years of marriage and 33 years practicing side by side in 700 square feet, Dr. Elisa Mello and Dr. Ramin Tabib could have coasted to the finish line. Instead, at

Don't Take Startup Advice from a Lucky Dentist

There is a lot of bad location advice in dentistry. A dentist goes on a podcast, says demographics do not matter because they opened in a weak market and made it work, an

222 Patients in Month One: Inside a Dental Startup That's Booked Out Two Months

Two married dentists. One startup. 222 new patients in their first full month. On this episode of The Dental CEO Podcast, Dr. Scott Leune sits down with Drs. Alex Hill an

Dental CEO Podcast #66 - Your Website Is No Longer Your Biggest Marketing Asset

In this episode of The Dental CEO Podcast, Scott Leune is joined by Bill Donato, Founder of DentalMarketing.com, to break down why your website is no longer the biggest d