Ready. Set. Grow

By Jake Puhl

What a difference a year makes! 365 days ago the DEO team took their final virtual bow and started

preparing for this year’s live Growth Summit. Firing on all cylinders, the goal was to deliver not just a live experience, but an entirely new format with content to knock your socks off! And as I write this, I can confirm: they delivered!

The 2022 DEO Growth Summit debuted double the content and offered attendees the opportunity to “choose their own adventure,” by curating two unique environments whereby attendees could learn from DEO experts, who were teaching DEO’s intellectual property, a curriculum that focuses on the first operating system created just for growing dental companies; or listen to the industry’s top DSO leaders as they shared their experiences and lessons learned along their entrepreneurial journey to grow their organizations. Read more about the Growth Summit on page 8!

You may not have noticed that we have a recurring feature story in every issue titled, “Emerging Group Spotlight.” We pull back the curtain on one group and do a deep dive into what that organization is doing differently to achieve growth and success. As we were planning the content for this issue, one group just didn’t seem like it accurately represented all of the amazing growth happening in the industry, so we decided to kick it up a notch and spotlight four Emerging Groups instead of only one! In this issue we featured: > Dr. Jeffrey Burch and Burch Dental Partners are revitalizing the notion of what a DSO can be. > Elliot Zibel of Select Dental Management explains how doctor retention, patient retention, and practice growth go hand in hand. > Dr. Kyle Hale and Kessel Run Management have turned a very pro-dentist owner, dentist-led, and dentist-driven organization into a profitable business with structure and potential for growth in the future. > With years of experience solving clinical problems, Dr. Gregory Toback and Resolute Dental Partners have expanded into solving problems for a growing company.

I can’t wait for you to dig into this issue! I hope you’re as inspired and motivated as I was from these pages. From our cover story about Dr. Mary Pham and the phenomenal growth that her organization, Lollipop Dental, has produced, to stories about how to build your foundation or tools to help you along the way, this entire issue is dedicated to helping you grow. I hope you enjoy it!

Cheers!

Jake Puhl