930: Buying Back Your Time: How AI Can Streamline Your Dental Practice – Mike Buckner

The Best Practices Show with Kirk Behrendt

Time is the one thing you can't buy back. Once it’s gone, it’s gone! In this episode, Kirk Behrendt brings back Mike Buckner, executive vice president of revenue at Pearl, to talk about AI and how it can help you and your team be more efficient in your practice. To learn how to free up time for the things that matter most, listen to Episode 930 of The Best Practices Show!

Learn More About Mike:

• Send Mike an email: [email protected]
• Follow Mike on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikebucknerpearl
• To connect, learn more about Pearl, and receive exclusive ACT Dental Partner benefits, please visit https://pages.hellopearl.com/act

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Episode Resources:

• Watch the video version of Episode 930: https://www.youtube.com/@actdental/videos
• Read Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell: https://www.buybackyourtime.com

Main Takeaways:

• Almost 90% of the work offloaded to AI is accurate.
• Audit your time to determine which tasks drain you most.
• Offload the low-value or most draining tasks to technology.
• Replace the time you've bought back with higher value tasks.
• Appoint a team member to be the “AI expert” to help you integrate AI.
• Practices resistant to AI will be surpassed by practices that leverage it.

Snippets:

0:00 Introduction.

0:34 Time is your most important commodity.

2:47 The three-step process to offload what drains you.

4:56 Benefits of using Pearl AI for office managers.

8:50 Why Pearl AI is a better insurance verification solution.

11:05 How Pearl AI helps you be efficient with your time.

13:19 How accurate is Pearl AI?

14:42 Does Pearl AI work with all software?

15:15 Things you should know about AI.

17:47 Final thoughts.

19:36 More about Pearl AI.

Mike Buckner Bio:

Mike has spent the last 12 years growing dental software technology companies that are designed to streamline office efficiency and increase overall production while elevating the standard of care for your patients.

Mike has led business development and partner strategy for Solutionreach back when offices were just starting to text patients to confirm appointments. He then helped grow Dental Intelligence, focusing on providing valuable insights to practices, allowing them to focus on vital key performance indicators to improve overall practice health.

Following that, Mike joined Weave while it was in its infancy, leading partnership growth strategies. His most recent endeavor finds him as the Executive Vice President of Revenue at Pearl, the first company to bring Artificial Intelligence into the dental space with comprehensive FDA clearance to assist clinicians and team members in reading and detecting pathologies in 2D X-rays (Bitewings and PAs).