Are You Making These 3 Costly AI Mistakes in Your Dental Business Strategies?
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The leap from clinician to CEO is the most significant hurdle in any associate to owner transition. Most dentists enter ownership with world-class clinical skills but find themselves practicing blind when it comes to the business side of the chair. In this episode of the Shared Practices Podcast, Dr. George Hariri sits down with Dr. Aditi Agarwal, co-founder of Practice by Numbers, to discuss how to navigate this high-stakes shift using the power of data and AI dashboards.
Dr. Agarwal shares her personal journey of launching a startup in a depressed market and the "aha moment" when she realized that her case acceptance issues weren't a clinical failure, but a data-driven financing gap. This episode serves as a survival guide for dental practice ownership, moving beyond simple spreadsheets to embrace sophisticated dental business strategies. We explore the concept of "Operations AI" and how it acts as a co-pilot for the modern dentist, automating the revenue finder process to locate thousands of dollars in unscheduled treatment.
As a future dental practice owner, your success depends on your ability to implement dental business strategies that don't rely solely on your own manual effort. We break down the importance of team-led technology adoption, showing you how to empower your front office to reduce their workload while simultaneously increasing dental practice profitability. From call sentiment analysis to AI-assisted perio charting, learn how to leverage the "great equalizer" of technology to compete with DSOs while maintaining the personalized touch of private practice. This is the roadmap for turning dental business ownership into a predictable, data-backed success story.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the shared practices podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm here joined today with Aditi Agarwal from Practice by Numbers. |
| 0:14.0 | So welcome to the shared practices podcast, Aditi. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.6 | Thanks, George. |
| 0:17.4 | Good to see you. |
| 0:18.4 | And thank you for having me. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah, I had a great time on the Practice Pulse podcast, which is PBN's podcast. And so we wanted to have a Didi on our show as well. And, you know, I think that in the last episode, you were asking me a lot of questions. And now I would like to return the favor and be the one asking the questions and learn from all that you've experienced in dentistry. |
| 0:38.0 | So for our listeners, so I think that the one thing I want to just introduce very early is when I think of PBN, I do think of Rohing. |
| 0:46.0 | Right. |
| 0:46.5 | And so I think that that's like traditionally, I've known PBN for many years. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm coming up on more than 10 years of knowing and being with PBN in my orbit, right? |
| 0:56.4 | I think I first became aware of you guys in 2015. |
| 0:58.9 | So, you know, you guys have been doing this for a really long time. |
| 1:02.3 | And I think as I've gotten to know you guys better, I've learned that Aditi, you're a big figure in the company. |
| 1:07.9 | And I think that people commonly attribute PBN with RoHitt, but I actually think |
| 1:12.9 | that you're also just as big of a prominent figure in PBN. So maybe talk to us about, you know, |
| 1:19.5 | because I think that you're kind of more, maybe not as public facing as I acknowledge Rohit to be. So maybe |
| 1:24.6 | like kind of talk to me about your role in PBN, your journey with |
| 1:28.0 | the company, because I think that people often probably don't appreciate what you do for PBN. |
| 1:32.7 | Thanks, George. Well, you know, I think I'm the backbone of practice by numbers. You know, |
| 1:37.1 | it started in my operatory in my practice, in my startup practice. And, you know, I'm a general |
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