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The Dental & DSO Business Guide

The Dental & DSO Business Guide

Hosted by Samera Business Advisors

Episodes

65

Latest episode

Sep 2026

Language

EN

About the show

Presented by the team at Samera Business Advisors. The Dental & DSO Business Guide is all about helping aspiring dental practice owners and DSOs build and grow their dental business empire. Tune in for tips and tricks by leading industry experts on how you can start and grow your dental business.

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September 24, 202634 min

Arun & Chris Show episode 3:AI and the Dental Patient Journey, What's Changing, What to Watch, and Where to Star

Arun Mehra and Chris Barrow are back after the summer. This episode is about how AI is changing the dental patient journey, from the first phone call to the treatment plan. Chris names the three changes he sees most in practices. Arun explains how Clev...

July 29, 202643 min

Arun & Chris Show Episode 2: How to Fill Empty Surgery Time

In this episode White space in the diary, the empty and unbooked surgery time that quietly drains a dental practice, is the single costliest problem a clinic can face. Every lost surgery hour eats straight into your profit, and no amount of external ma...

June 26, 202635 min

How Independent Dental Practices Can Win In A High-Cost Market

Your practice can feel busy and still be going backwards financially. That is the uncomfortable truth we tackle with zero doom-mongering and zero sales pitch, just straight talk from two people who have spent decades inside UK dental businesses. We sta...

April 16, 20261 hr 22 min

The New Year, New Financial You!

We walk through the new tax year changes that hit dentists and dental practice owners first, from frozen thresholds and fiscal drag to payroll cost rises and dividend tax. We then zoom out to the systems and decisions that protect profit: MTD readiness...

March 26, 202629 min

Making Tax Digital For Dentists

We explain what Making Tax Digital for Income Tax means for UK dentists and why the shift to quarterly reporting changes how you keep records. We map the deadlines, turnover thresholds and software options so you can get organised before April 2026 and...

March 18, 202651 min

The Business Skills Dentists Never Learn In School

We sit down with Howard Faran to talk about why dentists can be great clinicians yet still feel stuck financially. We focus on the basics that change everything: trust, access, insurance maths, and building a practice that improves margins instead of c...

March 11, 202632 min

How A DSO Grows Through Education And Digital Workflows

We speak with Dr Andrija Petar Bošnjak about leading clinical standards across a 16-location dental group spanning Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy, and why dental tourism has shifted from cheap fillings to complex full-arch work. We also dig into what act...

February 27, 202620 min

From Single Chair To Small, Strong Group

What if the smartest way to build a dental group right now is to keep your clinics close, your service boutique, and your metrics painfully simple? We sit down with Dr Smeeter Mera to unpack a practical blueprint for modern DSOs and independent groups ...

February 19, 202621 min

From Chairside To Scalable DSO Value

We share the DSO playbook that turns an owner-dependent practice into a resilient, associate-led group that buyers trust. From recruiting clinicians with special interests to building transparent financial systems, we show how consistency compounds val...

January 27, 202635 min

How To Finance A £1m Dental Practice In 2026

Trying to buy a £1 million dental practice without overpaying or overleveraging? We’ve got you. We break down the market forces shaping 2026—cooling interest rates, tighter supply, stronger buyer competition—and show how to turn that context into a sma...

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