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The Dental Hygiene Crisis: The 5-Part Series That Fixes the Industry’s Biggest Problem
Get the complete playbook from three dentists with 45 hygienists.
Free. On Demand.
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 is the structure.
FIVE EPISODES. FIVE CONVERSATIONS.
ONE COMPLETE PLAYBOOK.
Episode 1: The State of the Hygiene Market
The shortage is not coming. It is already here.
In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird break down where the hygiene market stands, why the gap between thriving practices and stuck practices is accelerating, and what you need to understand about your own model before anything else you do will work.
Episode 2: Why You Cannot Find a Good Hygienist and the Recruiting Framework That Fixes It
Paige Mosquella runs recruiting at Hamblin Family Dentistry. Their hygiene pipeline is full year-round. They spend zero dollars on recruiting.
In this episode Paige shares the PPP Framework — Pain, Paradise, Process — and the exact strategy her team uses across free platforms to consistently attract high-quality applicants that most offices never see.
Episode 3: The Onboarding and KPI System That Runs a High-Volume Hygiene Department
Autumn Brestcher is the Lead Hygienist at Hamblin Family Dentistry, a practice seeing 15 to 20 new patients every single day in one-hour appointments.
In this episode she walks through the complete shadow day process, the Triangle System for doctor-hygienist patient handoffs, the four soft skill benchmarks she evaluates in every new hire, and the four KPIs she tracks by individual hygienist to coach performance in real time.
Episode 4: The Compensation Structure That Keeps Your Best Hygienists From Leaving
This is the episode most dentists need and most are afraid of.
Dr. Blake Hamblin shares the full compensation model: the base pay, the 3.3x production threshold, the 20% commission structure, and the split shift schedule that gives hygienists flexibility without creating coverage gaps.
He also walks through the replacement cost math that changes how practice owners think about benefits, bonuses, and what it actually costs to lose someone.
Episode 5: Three Models. Three Dentists. One Standard.
Fee-for-service in Houston.
In-network with marketing across 12 locations in Florida.
In-network rural with zero marketing spend.
Three completely different practices. All three running profitable hygiene departments. Dr. Blake Hamblin, Dr. Andrew Vallo, and Dr. Collin Myrick compare notes on compensation, KPIs, incentive structures, leadership models, and the single metric all three agree predicts long-term growth better than anything else.
If you have ever told yourself the hygiene model only works for a certain type of practice, this episode ends that conversation.
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Resource 1
The Hygiene Crisis Readiness Checklist
A 25-question self-assessment that tells you exactly where your practice is exposed before the shortage tightens.
Resource 2
The Hygiene Onboarding Playbook and KPI Benchmark Guide
The complete shadow day checklist, Triangle System script, and four KPI benchmarks Autumn Brestcher uses at a practice seeing 200 new patients a month.
Resource 3
The Hygienist Recruiting Ad Template
A fill-in-the-blank recruiting ad built on the PPP Framework, with platform notes for Indeed and Facebook.
Resource 4
The Hygiene Compensation Guide with Two Calculator Templates
How the 3.3x threshold and 20% commission model works, plus two calculator templates that show effective hourly rate and true replacement cost.
Resource 5
The Reappointment Script Card
Word-for-word scripts for all four moments in the reappointment conversation, built from the scripting that took one practice from 65% to over 95% reappointment rate.
Resource 6
The Three-Model Hygiene Comparison Sheet
A side-by-side comparison of three dentists across eight dimensions of hygiene structure, compensation, and KPIs.
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 Bretscher
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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The shortage is not waiting. Neither should you.
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