Watch Dr. Nacho as he interviews high-producing dentists to uncover the strategies behind their success.
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Dr. Paul Goodman
Dr. Paul Goodman is a dentist, multiple-practice owner, transitions broker, and founder of both Dental Nachos and Dentist Job Connect. Many people know him as "Dr. Nacho."
His online and virtual community of over 60,000 dentists strives to help each other increase happiness, decrease stress, and reduce the number of times dentists feel like crying inside a day.
Dentist Job Connect is proud to help practice owners connect with associate dentists to share in the joy of dentistry, which Dr. Nacho describes as full contact arts and crafts.
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Dr. Kalene Colwell
I'm a 2020 graduate from the University of Utah School of Dentistry. Like more current grads, I graduated with minimal experience of around 8 crowns, a handful of surgical extractions, and root canals; I wasn't exactly oozing with confidence straight out of school.
The first job I worked at was a community health center in Libby, Montana. Hoping to gain some experience before setting off to private practice. Here, while the expectations were hard to keep up with seeing 1 patient every 30 minutes, along with checking on 2 hygienists, it did teach me to be efficient with my time and made me really good at extractions.After 3 years at the health center, I was an associate for 1.5 years in a bigger town in Montana before buying the office, which I now have, which is back in Libby. Libby has a population of 3,500, while the entire county has about 20,000.
The office, when I purchased it in January 2025, was 2 days a week and doing about 450,000 in production a year before write-offs. The office had a good reputation, and with those numbers, even if I could just replicate the production but scale up to 4 days, it would be a reasonable living. In the last 6 months, my personal production averages about 120k with another 30k from hygiene.
I attribute my success to the team around me, both in my office and in the small DSO I own. My front desk is solid, my 2 hygienists are very hard working and help close treatment, and my assistants are great about explaining treatment plans to patients. While my DSO helped negotiate pretty solid reimbursements from a few insurance plans that I take and handles the business side for me, so I consider myself spoiled. In my community, I feel my patients do rely on their benefits quite a lot, so I'm happy to provide that service of being in-network for them.
I've been following Nachos since Dental school, so I'm very honored to be interviewed!
Dr. Chris Thorburn
Dentist Job Connect is a fast-growing job connection platform and service designed to BOND dentists together- created exclusively for dentists by a dentist.
We help dentists find the right fit for their associate job so they can survive, thrive and "not cry" in the real world of dentistry.
Our platform allows practice owners to create a listing, search through resumes and start connecting with over 5,000 job seekers. In addition, listings are shared with our dental network of 70,000 members through social media, targeted texts and emails.