Welcome to the Smile Pulse Podcast, a show about running dental practices that actually work.

Host Ash Toub has spent his career inside dental practices, from single locations to multi-location groups, and he's seen what holds practices up and what tears them down.

This first episode is the map. Before Ash goes deep on any one piece of the business, he lays out the 11 pillars that hold a dental practice together. Five of them carry the most weight (People, Data, Infrastructure, Revenue Cycle, Marketing) and Ash opens the show with those, then expands into all 11.

The 11 pillars:

1. Revenue Cycle

2. Front Office

3. Clinical Operations

4. Team and HR

5. Marketing

6. Finance and Data

7. Compliance

8. Technology / IT

9. Facilities

10. Vendors

11. Leadership

Future episodes go one-by-one on each pillar. If you're a dental student, an associate thinking about ownership, a solo owner, or a group operator trying to grow, this is your starting point.