Podcast Highlights

Dr. Marq Sams was told in residency, you're only as good as the number of golf clubs in your bag. Most practice owners hit a point where the systems that got them here start cracking under more patients, more staff, and more decisions that used to be simple. Dr. Marq Sams leads the Implant & Perio Center of Kansas in Wichita and joins co-hosts Cameron Full, Dr. Jason Souyias, and Dr. Michael Seda to talk about what actually changes once a practice starts scaling. Marq built his own Seattle Study Club chapter, the C.L.U.B., by handpicking members for character over convenience, and he explains why so many study clubs struggle to keep people showing up. 🎤 Hear the full episode with Dr. Marq Sams at http://speciallists.com/ The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the fu…

Most practice owners hit a point where the systems that got them here start cracking under more patients, more staff, and more decisions that used to be simple. Dr. Marq Sams leads the Implant & Perio Center of Kansas in Wichita and joins co-hosts Cameron Full, Dr. Jason Souyias, and Dr. Michael Seda to talk about what actually changes once a practice starts scaling. Marq built his own Seattle Study Club chapter, the C.L.U.B., by handpicking members for character over convenience, and he explains why so many study clubs struggle to keep people showing up. 🎤 Hear the full episode with Dr. Marq Sams at http://speciallists.com/ The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at http://speciallists.com/ (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental…

Most practice owners hit a point where the systems that got them here start cracking under more patients, more staff, and more decisions that used to be simple. Dr. Marq Sams leads the Implant & Perio Center of Kansas in Wichita and joins co-hosts Cameron Full, Dr. Jason Souyias, and Dr. Michael Seda to talk about what actually changes once a practice starts scaling. Marq built his own Seattle Study Club chapter, the C.L.U.B., by handpicking members for character over convenience, and he explains why so many study clubs struggle to keep people showing up. 🎤 Hear the full episode with Dr. Marq Sams at http://speciallists.com/ The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at http://speciallists.com/ (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental …

The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

25 specialists. 25 special lists. One year of the conversations that actually grow a dental practice. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

On the latest episode of The Special Lists, Dr. Hunter Dawson alerts us about what happens when someone retires and people assume that practice is thriving. But that top 20 referrers of that doctor are also retiring. And guess what? That practice can just go poof in the air, because it hasn't been sustained. The average lifespan of an associate dentist in a practice is somewhere between 18 and 24 months. If you don't go back and reintroduce yourself, you lose the referral. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

From the mental health of dentists, to the intraoral scanner as a case-acceptance engine, to using clear aligners to make restorative dentistry easier, Josh lays out why our profession is 2.5x more likely to die by suicide, how dental school quietly trains bad habits, and why his answer, after years of giving the talk, comes down to one word. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

...and I don't like dentists. That's what she said, so Dr. Seda said it right back to her. Full episode out now with Dr. Josh Austin, listen at speciallists.com. From the mental health of dentists, to the intraoral scanner as a case-acceptance engine, to using clear aligners to make restorative dentistry easier, Josh lays out why our profession is 2.5x more likely to die by suicide, how dental school quietly trains bad habits, and why his answer, after years of giving the talk, comes down to one word. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontis…

Dr. Hunter Dawson says when he retires, the book he writes will be called The Patient on the Ceiling. When you're laying in bed at night and your eyes aren't shut yet, you're replaying that procedure in your head like, dang it, I should have done that. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

Andrew Jowett grew up around two family trades that shaped his eye and his standards: dental hygiene (his mom) and funeral service (his dad). He is the owner of MedCreative, a photography and video studio that tells brand stories for dental practices across the country, based in the Port Huron, Michigan area. He started in newspaper journalism — where he learned to put camera-shy subjects at ease — before moving into commercial and freelance work around 2016 and into the dental space in 2019. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

Andrew Jowett grew up around two family trades that shaped his eye and his standards: dental hygiene (his mom) and funeral service (his dad). He is the owner of MedCreative, a photography and video studio that tells brand stories for dental practices across the country, based in the Port Huron, Michigan area. He started in newspaper journalism — where he learned to put camera-shy subjects at ease — before moving into commercial and freelance work around 2016 and into the dental space in 2019. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

Andrew Jowett grew up around two family trades that shaped his eye and his standards: dental hygiene (his mom) and funeral service (his dad). He is the owner of MedCreative, a photography and video studio that tells brand stories for dental practices across the country, based in the Port Huron, Michigan area. He started in newspaper journalism — where he learned to put camera-shy subjects at ease — before moving into commercial and freelance work around 2016 and into the dental space in 2019. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

Bring a second periodontist into one of your offices and the dentists who send you cases will still ask for you by name. Adam McClellan's fix is counterintuitive — he stops taking new patients at that location entirely, so there's no option to request him, and the incoming doctor inherits those relationships outright. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentalpracticemanagement #periodontist #Shorts

Dr. Gregg Kinzer thinks a profession full of high achievers talked itself into believing every restoration should last forever, and that the harshest environment in the human body guarantees otherwise. The real fix is telling patients the risks before treatment, not explaining them after something breaks. Dr. Gregg Kinzer is a prosthodontist in Seattle, where he runs a private practice limited to comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer. Learn more about Dr. Kinzer at Spear Education: https://app.speareducation.com/faculty Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-22-failing-is-growing-with-dr-gregg-kinzer/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, liv…

Why there's clinical “safe word” Dr. Adam McClellan shares with his assistants to reset when a surgery gets tense, and the “exit code” that rescues him from a room running long. Dr. Adam McLellan is the CEO of Periodontal Care, a five-location periodontal group he built across the Kansas City metro over a decade through seven acquisitions and mergers — while vetting and passing on seven more. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

This is the question Dr. Gregg Kinzer's nine-year-old asked him years ago, the one he still hasn't shaken. Dr. Kinzer is a prosthodontist in Seattle, where he runs a private practice limited to comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer. Learn more about Dr. Kinzer at Spear Education: https://app.speareducation.com/faculty Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-22-failing-is-growing-with-dr-gregg-kinzer/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, lived experience—changes the game. Referral Lab was built specifically for dental specialists, helping you track, manage, and convert every referral. It's about improving case acceptance, boosting team perfor…

Dr. Adam McLellan is the CEO of Periodontal Care, a five-location periodontal group he built across the Kansas City metro over a decade through seven acquisitions and mergers — while vetting and passing on seven more. Here's what it actually takes to grow from one practice to five without the whole thing depending on you. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice #periodontist #Shorts

Dr. Gregg Kinzer doesn't pretend he has it solved. Everything costs something, and every yes is a no somewhere else. The line that stays with him is the question his nine-year-old asked him years ago, the one he still hasn't shaken. Dr. Kinzer is a prosthodontist in Seattle, where he runs a private practice limited to comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer. Learn more about Dr. Kinzer at Spear Education: https://app.speareducation.com/faculty Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-22-failing-is-growing-with-dr-gregg-kinzer/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, lived experience—changes the game. Referral Lab was built specifically for dental …

The thing nobody tells you about running your own dental practice is that the anxiety doesn’t quiet down — it just gets louder for the first 20 years, and then you look back and realize none of the things you were afraid of actually happened. Eman Traynor knows. She built Traynor Periodontics & Implants from scratch in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1998 and ran it solo for 27 years on a steady drip of stress she now wishes she’d ignored. Learn more about Dr. Traynor https://www.tpigreenwich.com/ Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-21-what-id-tell-my-younger-self-after-31-years-in-solo-practice-with-dr-eman-trayno/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, lived experience—changes the game. Re…

Dr. Gregg Kinzer makes the case that a scanner alone doesn't make a practice digital. The real work starts with how you use the data after the scan. Dr. Kinzer is a prosthodontist in Seattle, where he runs a private practice limited to comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer. Learn more about Dr. Kinzer at Spear Education: https://app.speareducation.com/faculty Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-22-failing-is-growing-with-dr-gregg-kinzer/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, lived experience—changes the game. Referral Lab was built specifically for dental specialists, helping you track, manage, and convert every referral. It's about impr…

A lot of what passes for CE in dentistry now is show-and-tell, impressive cases a dentist will never replicate. Dr. Gregg Kinzer says real learning happens in small rooms where people get pushed, and in actually reading the literature instead of skimming the conclusions. Dr. Gregg Kinzer is a prosthodontist in Seattle, where he runs a private practice limited to comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer. Learn more about Dr. Kinzer at Spear Education: speareducation.com/faculty/bio/greggory-kinzer Hear the full episode https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-22-failing-is-growing-with-dr-gregg-kinzer/ ==== The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab, is the podcast for dentists and dental specialists. Running a dental practice isn't easy, and if you're in private practice, it can sometimes feel like you're on an island. That's why finding your people—those who've been in your shoes and can share real, lived experience—changes the ga…

Sheet cake from the store. Wedding cake from a baker. There's specialty everywhere around us, and there's times to go to a generalist and times to go to a specialist. Dr. Andrew Skasko built a thriving restorative-only practice by doing something most dentists are told NOT to do: staying in his lane. From Seattle Study Club to building a multi-location model rooted in trust, mentorship, and specialization, this is an honest conversation about leadership, growth, and practicing with intention. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode with Dr. Andrew Skasko at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentistry #dentalpractice…

The restorative doc is the quarterback, and Dr. Andrew Skasko draws the line on who runs the case and tells epcialists, kindly, to stop treatment planning from their chair. Dr. Andrew Skasko built a thriving restorative-only practice by doing something most dentists are told NOT to do: staying in his lane. From Seattle Study Club to building a multi-location model rooted in trust, mentorship, and specialization, this is an honest conversation about leadership, growth, and practicing with intention. The Special Lists, presented by Referral Lab — the podcast for dentists and dental specialists who are tired of feeling like they're on an island. Real wins, real mistakes, and real lessons from the people running practices like yours. Watch or listen to the full episode with Dr. Andrew Skasko at speciallists.com (with two L's). Referral Lab is the platform built for dental specialists to track, manage, and convert every referral. Request a demo at referrallab.io #dentalpractice #pe…