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Sully Sullivan

Dr. Sully Sullivan is a 4th-generation dentist, partner at Sullivan Dental Partners in Brentwood, TN, and host of The Millennial Dentist podcast.

Aug 4, 2026

9:43
I took that class
9:43
...
9:43
if you, if you bought a cone beam, then you got to get the voucher.
9:47
And, you know, T-Bone knew, um...
9:50
One of our, like, fundamental concepts at 3 Dentists is this concept of replacing yourself, which essentially means that you're s- all of us are so limited by our future success because of our current busyness and bandwidth.
10:05
And so if you go and learn new techniques, if you go and learn different stuff, or you wanna bring on whatever it is, if you don't get things off your plate and give yourself room to implement, grow, uh, then, then your success is almost always headed just by the limiting bandwidth.
10:24
So, so T-Bone h- was kinda having the same thing in his own education, meaning that he was wanting to grow courses at the, at the i- at the time, you know, this is 2017, 2018, the idea of a live patient implant continuum where you could... dentists could learn, give back to the community.

11 MINS LATER

21:36
Sure.
9:36
So let's start from the beginning, graduating from dental school, like the whole Sullivan lineage and joining your dad's practice and how that all went.
9:48
Yeah, interrupt me as we kind of go into this.
9:52
I graduated dental school, and I knew pretty quickly that I was just going to go with my dad.
9:57
My dad had what I would say all of us consider a super successful practice at the time.
10:02
He was doing about $1.4 million in collections.
10:05
kind of year in and year out.
10:07
He was that guy on roller skates, three hygienists, full-time, four days a week, and was really just kind of going crazy.

17 MINS LATER

27:24
You're too kind, Kevin.

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