Spear Education

You know, there's really ways that we can all work together.

And I just want to add one thing on your comment, and that is, you know, if there's anything that John Coyce or Spear or Pankey or L.D. Pankey or any of those guys thought, you know, it's always the complete exam.

You know, that's what you need to get down.

And a lot of people, you know, if you're using AI, like you're using Overjet or Pearl and you're using this AI and you sit there and see a bunch of watches, I mean, you've got to get in your mind and say, Okay, well, okay, yeah, I see some demineralization.

Sorry, I'm so old and decrepit that I have to go slow.

And to the kids in there, I mean, let me tell you, every old dentist has seen the best dentist on the block who went to Panky Institute for six weeks, who went to Spear, who went to...

Kois, he's just the best dentist in the world.

And all he does is grumble about how he's got the smallest office on the block.

Good for search.

That's the number one people are searching for.

And, you know, I love Panky, Spear, Kois.

That's all great, but the patient is looking for... convenience they're close to my office this is where i live you know it's open it takes my insurance all these things that the patient is grading you on and you want to swim upstream and say well no i want him to drive across town i want him to get on southwest airlines and fly to my office because my implants are that much better dude that that and and and then they they showed the the few guys doing it and it can't be done I'm not saying it can't be done, but man, it's a lot easier to say, what are they looking for? Well, number one thing you're looking for is a dentist near me.

what we are being asked to do is relatively impossible.

There's no secret truth that I can learn by going to Spear or going to BioClear or going to Implanted Pathway.

It's good stuff, but there is no way to beat biology.

And we as dentists need to learn this stuff

That's not relevant to this." It is, because when you come out with the debt and the stre- that all adds to the stress, and then you're going out into a corporate situation where you're just feeling like a worker bee, and you're not doing what we're gonna start getting into now, which is connecting with your patients and their parents.

And to me, that's everything of why we do what we do, right? And some people out there, I know I have people listening to the show who are Panky people, and Dawson, and Spear, and I mean, you look at any of those KOIs, you look at any of those academies, at, at...

One of their foundational principles is co-diagnosis and taking the time to really understand what your patient is walking in, what your patient is presenting with.

And I mean, that's the foundation of what we all should be, should be doing.

They're doing quality dentistry.

You know, they're going to pla- places like Pankey, Dawson, Spear, Kois.

Um, they take a, they take a multiple of the amount of CE that, uh, that, that's required.

They really work to hire and retain the best team members.

Yeah.

Did you get involved in that at NYU or you talked about Panky and Spear and these other?

Nope.

So associations and then dental schools and residency programs.

So not the Kois and the Spear and the Panky, but.

So we'll call these formal education trainings.

Correct.