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/

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https://www.speciallists.com/special-list-21-what-id-tell-my-younger-self-after-31-years-in-solo-practice-with-dr-eman-trayno/

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