Clinical Efficiency as the Great Equalizer: How Edge Dental Management Transforms Underperforming Practices
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Group Dentistry Now Show: The Voice of the DSO Industry
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My name is Dr. Elaine Bylas. I work for Innovative Dental Design in Maryland. So today you're going to see I'm treating tooth number 18. There was a fractured distal lingual cusp. And as most dentists know, tooth number 18 is my least favorite tooth in the mouth to treat because it is so far back, very difficult access, and very difficult isolation. It's still never easy treating tooth number 18, but isolate makes it much more bearable for me and my office staff. So there are many reasons. First off, isolation. It does an amazing job of keeping the tongue and cheek out of the way. It also helps suction, and so anytime I'm doing a core buildup, it also illuminates the field, which is great for illuminating that very dark part of the back of the mouth.
So before the isolate, me and my assistant had to be completely engaged on treating that tooth because, you know, you have to keep the tongue and cheek completely out of the way. But now my assistant can actually leave the room if she wants to, and I can actually treat that tooth all by myself. And so the isolate has been a very important tool because the isolate does all of the assisting for me.
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Group Dentistry Now show. I'm Bill Newman. And again, always appreciate everybody checking in, whether you're watching us on YouTube or listening to us on Spotify. Apple or wherever you happen to consume our content, we appreciate it. We're going to talk about clinical efficiency, technology, operations, all sorts of fun stuff. And we've got a returning guest to the podcast. We have Dr. Mark Faber. Mark is the founder and CEO of Edge Dental Management. I met Mark, I don't know, Mark, maybe you remember the year, but it was 2018 or 2019 maybe in Philadelphia. So it's been a long time. Yeah, we were at an event, dental event near UPenn, but it was great to meet you. Kim and I had the chance to talk to you and then we've been friends ever since and see you at different shows.
Don't see as much as I'd like, but we had you on episode 83 of our podcast in March of 2022, so four years ago. We've got 265 podcasts plus in, so it's been a while. And then your group was also one of the 2020 Emerging Dental Groups to Watch award winners. So that was, again, six years ago. So we've got a lot of history. You've been in the industry for quite a while, and I think you've got a really unique history story. You know, you're not, I guess all DSOs are different, but I really like your model. And I'd love maybe for you to talk a little bit about your background and then, you know, what edge dental management is and kind of how you find practices to acquire. You have this, you look for practices that need a little bit of help, or you can kind of come in and create efficiencies, fix them up a little bit and make them, you know, super performing practices.
Well, yeah. Well, that's the fun of it now. But just a little bit on my background, I've been in business now about 14 years. I bought my first practice in 2012. And since then, a lot has happened. I developed a very nice business model and took on a couple of partners. But one of the things that we've been able to do, which has been a lot of fun, is really take these underperforming practices and turning them around. And that is what we look for. That is what we buy. We don't buy big. We buy small. But then we end up having to spend some money to build them out. And a lot of that is a result of the clinical efficiencies that we have.
Yeah. And so how many, how many locations do you have currently and can talk a little bit about, you know, where, where, where they're located and anything else you want to share?
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