Strategic Pathways For Sustainable Dental Practice Growth - Tom Part 1
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Practice Underwater, where Dr. George Hariri helps Tom map out a plan for sustainable dental practice growth.
After scaling his clinic's collections from $1.1 million to $1.65 million, Tom realizes that continuing this sustainable dental practice growth requires optimizing dental practice management rather than working grueling 10-hour days.
They discuss the heavy toll of a $10,000-per-month consulting program and debate whether successful entrepreneurship for dentists means pushing for an immediate group practice or maximizing dental business ownership as a highly profitable smart solo.
This is a must-listen for anyone seeking sustainable dental practice growth while redesigning their clinical schedule to prioritize their personal life.
In this episode:
- Scaling a clinic from $1.1M to $1.65M in collections.
- Escaping a limiting $10,000/month coaching trap.
- Transitioning from a 10-hour schedule to a smart solo model.
- Balancing heavy debt with a $450,000 take-home pay.
- Priming your solo clinic for a slow group practice transition.
Whether navigating an associate to owner transition or vetting acquisitions in dentistry, this is your survival guide. Ready to scale your dental practice ownership?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Practice Underwater. And this is a segment that has been very |
| 0:07.8 | popular on the shared practices podcast. And we took a little break from doing it. By little, |
| 0:12.1 | I mean multiple years. And now we are back on. And today I have with me Tom. And so Tom, |
| 0:18.1 | this is always a, there's always a delicate balance being a practice |
| 0:21.1 | underwater guest where I want to hear about you, your practice, your life, especially your |
| 0:25.3 | journey into ownership. |
| 0:26.5 | But at the same time, your name is not really Tom. |
| 0:30.2 | And so just kind of for our audience here, why don't you just let them get to know you a |
| 0:34.3 | little bit? |
| 0:35.5 | Sure. |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.4 | I guess I'll just kind of start on my, my dental journey. |
| 0:40.6 | I graduated in 2017. |
| 0:43.7 | Okay. |
| 0:44.2 | So I've been out of school for about eight years now and, yeah, kind of starting to get |
| 0:50.4 | the hang of dentistry a little bit. |
| 0:51.9 | But yeah, I was married in undergrad, and we had all of our |
| 0:59.5 | four kids during undergrad and dental school. So before I was done, graduated dental school, |
| 1:05.7 | we were a family of six. So yeah, that was a lot. I have an amazing wife, and she kind of held down the fort |
| 1:13.9 | and allowed me to have kids climbing over me with some headphones on so I could try to study. |
| 1:19.4 | And yeah, we made it through. That's awesome. And so you graduated dental school. Talked me through |
| 1:25.4 | the, so we're, what, eight years out now? |
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