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SERIES FOR DENTAL PRACTICE OWNERS
The Dental Hygiene Crisis: The Complete Playbook to Fix the Industry’s Biggest Problem
One complete framework for recruiting, compensating, and retaining a high-performing hygiene team.
The full series drops October 8, 2026.
Dentists know their hygiene department is broken.
They just do not know why.
You are probably in one of these situations right now:
You have posted the same listing for months. You are burning through temps and losing ground every week.
You have hygienists. They are not performing. You cannot tell if it is them or your systems.
The temp rate is $60 to $70 an hour. You cannot build a practice around people who are not yours.
If either of your good hygienists leaves, you have no plan. And you know it.
A 40% hygienist shortfall is coming.
The practices with the right structure in place will grow through it. The ones that do not will be stuck, this series gives you the structure.
This series is for dentists and practice owners who:
Your hygiene department is holding your practice back from growing past $1M. You are tired of the temp market and want to build a team that actually stays. You have avoided the compensation conversation because you are not sure what to change. You have no real system for onboarding, measuring performance, or coaching improvement. You are trying to grow from $1M to $2M or $3M and hygiene keeps being the bottleneck.
This series is not for dentists who:
You are looking for confirmation that the hygiene market is impossible, or if you believe a system like this only works for certain types of practices. Episode 5 removes that argument entirely.
MEET YOUR Hosts
Dr. Blake Hamblin
Owner, Hamblin Family Dentistry | Houston, Texas
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Owner of one of the fastest-growing fee-for-service practices in the country, seeing over 200 new patients a month. Recognized at the Dental Success Summit for the fastest-growing dental organization in the country. Every system in this series runs inside his practice every single week.
Gary Bird
Founder, SMC National | Host, My Dental Playbook
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Founder of SMC National, working directly with thousands of dental practices over more than a decade. His focus is on the intersection of marketing, operations, and leadership. He is the reason dentists who are skeptical of most marketing advice keep listening anyway.
Special Guests
Autumn Brestcher
Lead Hygienist, Hamblin Family Dentistry | Houston, Texas
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Lead Hygienist at a fee-for-service practice seeing 15 to 20 new patients every single day in one-hour appointments. She built the onboarding system, KPI framework, and doctor-hygienist handoff process that makes that volume possible and runs them every week.
Paige Mosquella
Recruiting Operations, Hamblin Family Dentistry | Houston, Texas
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Responsible for keeping the hygiene pipeline full at one of the fastest-growing fee-for-service practices in the country, with zero recruiting spend. Developing a system she runs to keep qualified applicants coming in year-round while most practices struggle to fill a single open role.
Dr. Collin Myrick
Owner, Multiple Locations | Rural Markets
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Owner of multiple in-network practices in primarily rural markets with zero marketing spend, seeing 150 to 250 new patients per month per location. Recognized alongside Dr. Blake Hamblin at the Dental Success Summit for the fastest-growing dental organization in the country. The clearest proof in this series that this framework works without a large marketing budget or a major metro market.
Dr. Andrew Vallo
Owner, 12 Locations | Central and South Florida
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Owner of 12 in-network dental practices across Florida, seeing 150 to 250 new patients per month per location. He grew his hygiene reappointment rate from the mid-60s to over 95%.
The insights in this series do not come from consultants selling theories. They come from a practice owner who built it, a lead hygienist who runs it, an operations team member who recruits for it, and two additional dentists who prove it works across completely different models.
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This series is free, it is on demand, and it comes with everything you need to build something that holds.