The Startup Dentist

Stephen Trutter

Booking Overview

This is a dental-business interview and solo-expert show focused on helping associate dentists launch and operate successful practices, with occasional interviews featuring successful practice owners and dental-industry executives. Suitable pitches include dentists with proven startup or ownership results, dental consultants, and executives with practical expertise in practice growth, leadership, hiring, or patient acquisition; booking difficulty is likely medium because guests need credible, directly relevant operating experience rather than broad celebrity status.

Metrics

Episodes: 57

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 4.5k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

cnv@idealpractices.com

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Host

Stephen Trutter - Dental practice startup advisor and host focused on helping associate dentists move into practice ownership; he leads work informed by extensive experience with dental practice startups through Ide...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Dentists with demonstrated success launching or operating practices, or dental-industry executives and advisors with practical expertise in ownership, growth, leadership, marketing, or operations.

Required Achievements:

Successful dental practice startup or ownership track record, Demonstrated practice growth or strong annual production, Leadership of a dental-industry company, Practical experience overcoming competitive, staffing, or patient-acquisition challenges

Recent Guest Discussions

Gary Bird - The Fears Associate Dentists Face When Considering Practice Ownership, Decision-making, Purpose, Perfectionism, And The Pressures Of Becoming An Owner.

Ben Friberg - The Realities Of Launching A Dental Startup, Early Patient Acquisition, Practice Growth, Ownership Challenges, And Lessons From Seven Years In Business.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Dental Practice Management, Practice Ownership, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Startup Dentist

AI for Your Dental Startup: Helpful Tool or Costly Mistake?

September 29, 2026

An assistant that works 24 hours a day sounds like the perfect partner for opening a dental practice. But can AI actually help you become a practice owner, or can trusting it blindly create expensive mistakes you never see coming? Stephen Trutter sits down with Jonathan, CEO of the practice management software company Archie, to take on both sides. You will hear which front desk tasks AI already handles well, why an AI scribe gives dentists back 30 to 50 minutes a day, and how AI on X-rays q...

Associate Dentist to Practice Owner: 10 Free Lessons

September 21, 2026

Somebody is already paying for your education in practice ownership, and it is not you. Most associate dentists spend years inside a working business and never collect the lessons sitting in front of them every single day. This episode covers ten of them. Stephen Trutter gets into what you can learn about leadership by watching how your doctor handles a bad afternoon, why more patients will never rescue a practice built without systems, and what a client saw in her own associate position tha...

Opening a Dental Practice: The 12 Months Before

September 07, 2026

Most associates believe the first twelve months after opening a dental practice are about survival. Stephen Trutter has been part of nearly 1,000 startups, and he will tell you the strongest ones had already won or lost before they ever saw a first patient. This episode is about what he calls the 12 month mindset, the six shifts that separate owners who grow fast and calm from owners who spend year one reacting. Stephen gets into why average startups obsess over equipment while the successfu...

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