Greg Wappett
speaker
324 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Greg Wappett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And we added a whole bunch of locations, you know, 45 plus locations, probably close to 50 locations across that stretch of time.
Um, and you know, I would say probably about 50% of those include.
Some level of succession planning with the selling dentists.
Whether it's two partners and one of them was, you know, 60, one of them was 45, or whether it was a 60-something-year-old looking to that next level of their, their, their career and kind of the writing the last chapters of their career.
So a chunk of the acquisitions that we did over that period of time had succession planning involved with that.
And, you know, we
We and I would assume most other groups, like we had open dialogue, very good open dialogue with our seller partners over that period of time.
Um, you know, it and we wanted to always plan that out.
We understand that transitioning practices is part of the business that we're in.
It's a significant part of the business that we're in.
Um, but it's not as simple as, you know, dentists aren't just chess pieces you move around a board.
It takes time to bring in to find the right dentist, to bring them in, to groom them in.
to that practice because there is a split um, you know, kind of culture both between the practice and the DSO level.
So it it takes some time, it takes teamwork to accomplish this.
COVID really threw a wrench in everyone's system.
Um, you know, of those 50% or so of the practices that the succession planning was part of it.
All of those timelines all of a sudden escalated pretty quickly.
Um, we had a lot of dentists that were in there kind of early to mid-sixties that still thought they had a few years left in them.
Um, and then COVID hit, and all of a sudden people were scrambling a little bit.
People were slow to come back to the office.
Showing 41–60 of 324 · page 3 of 17
← Previous
Next →