Corr Dental Designs & Pacific Aesthetic Laboratory Group

05/29/2026

The latest PAC Podcast is now available!

Are you Building a Business or a Life You Love?

Most leaders don’t burn out because they hate their profession. They burn out because the business slowly turns into a machine that eats their time, drains their energy, and makes every problem feel urgent.

We sit down with leadership coach Rick VanDermyden to unpack a simple idea with sharp edges: the “EOS Life” means doing what you love with people you love, making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately, and still having time for your passions. If even one of those feels out of reach, this conversation gives you language and structure to fix it. We also dig into EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and the Traction framework, focusing on the three pillars Rick uses with leadership teams: vision, traction, and healthy. We talk about core values, getting everyone on the same page, and why “vision without traction is hallucination.” Rick breaks down what it looks like to build discipline and accountability without turning your workplace into a joyless checklist, and why healthy teams are willing to have open, honest conversations when something is off. Then we bring it home to dentistry and other service businesses dealing with turnover, rising costs, and insurance reimbursement pressure. We explore how differentiation, trust, and a consistent experience can keep you from competing on price alone, and how the right people in the right seats can change everything about your day.

If you want a practice that runs with clarity and still feels human, hit play, then subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

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12/29/2025

The PAC Podcast
From Burnout To 55 Percent Overhead: A Dental Business Playbook

What if a 10 percent drop in overhead could raise your income by 40 percent? We sit down with Dr. Tony Tamaro to map a practical path to 55–56 percent overhead while keeping care personal, ethical, and high quality. The key isn’t grinding more—it’s changing the model: price your time, not just your procedures; run a doctor-led new patient interview that builds trust in minutes; and align your days around comprehensive, quadrant-based care that reduces visits and raises production per hour.

Tony walks us through the numbers dentists often ignore. Salaries, including payroll taxes, should live near 20 percent; lab around 10 percent; rent roughly 3–5 percent. Many practices blow past those targets because they overhire and under-measure. We break down how to calculate hourly production and true procedure costs, why annual fee increases are responsible and necessary, and how to use real-time dashboards instead of waiting six weeks for CPA reports you can’t act on. You’ll learn how dropping insurance dependence, updating fees, and focusing on high-value procedures can stabilize cash flow and cut chaos.

We also dig into the human side. A 10-minute doctor interview before the exam—asking about goals, fears, and barriers—can transform case acceptance from 35 percent to 90 percent. Pair that with comprehensive diagnostics, clear visuals, and AI support to reduce doubt, and patients start owning their choices. By training in aesthetics, function, and occlusion, you can deliver bigger cases with fewer appointments, which means a calmer schedule, a smaller team, and a healthier business.

If you’re ready to run a dental business, not just a practice, this conversation gives you the framework, the metrics, and the mindset to get there. Subscribe, share this with a colleague who needs it, and leave a review with the one metric you’ll start tracking weekly.

Watch now on our YouTube Channel - https://youtu.be/mtkgSizFRRo?si=hyzbI_CNgVhFMlZL

12/22/2025

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Case Before Commerce: Designing A Practice That Lasts

What if you could design a dental practice that values time, trust, and lasting results over churn and write-offs? That’s the story we explore with Dr. Rhys Spoor, who traded a research career studying seals for a lifelong craft in aesthetic and comprehensive dentistry—and built a thriving, insurance-free model around it. We talk through the mindset shifts that matter most: care before commerce, value over discounts, and reputation as the ultimate moat.

We dig into practical moves you can use right away. Learn why dropping PPOs overnight can crater your new patient flow, and how to plan the exit with skill-building, team training, and a case mix that supports your numbers. Hear how a simple dinner-time check-in call turns into word-of-mouth that compounds, why advocating through an insurance denial can return tenfold in trust, and how to measure the only metric that counts: what you keep per hour. We also unpack flexible marketing that evolves with the market—from building outreach to magazines and radio—guided by relentless metrics and quick pivots.

Clinically and operationally, we connect the dots between longevity and ethics. Function drives form, ceramics can last decades when done right, and comprehensive planning is the bridge between beautiful smiles and durable outcomes. With the “magenta line” borrowed from aviation, we show how to set a clear destination, correct course as conditions change, and buy back your most precious asset: time. If you’ve wondered whether a fee-for-value practice is possible in your market, this conversation offers the playbook—and the push—to start.

Loved the conversation? Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs this nudge, and leave a review telling us the one change you’ll make this month.

Watch now on our You Tube Channel - https://youtu.be/GKa1jPrxLWo

10/30/2025

The PAC Podcast
Selling Your Practice Isn't A Golden Ticket, It's a Group Project

Thinking about selling your dental practice to a DSO but unsure what’s signal and what’s noise? We sit down with attorney Dennis Michaels to demystify how DSOs are structured, where the money actually moves, and how to protect your upside without sacrificing your sanity. From management agreements and fee flows to production pay and equity rollovers, we break down the mechanics in plain language so you can model not just the offer, but what you keep.

We walk through a practical preparation plan: assemble a sharp CPA with deal experience, a transaction-savvy attorney, and a strategic advisor who knows the dental market day to day. Together, they’ll help you clean up financials, strengthen KPIs, stabilize leases, and close operational gaps that shrink value. We also tackle the hard-to-find intel on private DSOs: how to source candid doctor feedback, why the first anchor practice gets a different deal than the tenth, and how to evaluate culture and clinical autonomy beyond the pitch deck.

People decisions can make or break the transition. We cover HR redundancies, retention packages, and the right time to talk to your team so fear doesn’t walk out the door before a term sheet is signed. Most importantly, we reframe the move: a DSO is not an off-ramp, it’s a partnership. Choose partners whose incentives, communication style, and operating rhythm fit how you want to practice for the next few years. Do the math on management fees, earn-outs, and clawbacks, and be honest about your risk tolerance for equity that pays later.

If you’re weighing corporate dentistry, this conversation gives you a grounded checklist to prepare, negotiate, and decide with confidence. Subscribe for more clear, candid episodes on the business of dentistry, and share this with a colleague who’s fielding those DSO calls. Your future practice—and peace of mind—will thank you.

Watch now on our YouTube Channel - https://youtu.be/A8YDvbVKSQ0

10/09/2025