Early in her career, Meghan Greco tried to refer a patient whose perio wasn't improving, and the dentist told her the oral systemic link wasn't real. She didn't stay at that practice long.

Today Meghan, RDH, OMT and founder of The Thriving Practice Coach, runs a prevention-focused hygiene department that has held at 50% of total practice production for years. She joins Allison Hale to talk about why hygiene is the most underleveraged department in a practice, why vision comes before systems, and how salivary diagnostics changed her perio conversations.

Listen for the moment Meghan explains why, when co-diagnosis is working, the doctor never has to start the conversation in the exam.

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Laura Dionisio was a team lead on a world-changing aerospace project when she found herself on her apartment floor, crying over a Teams message. Nobody had yelled at her. She was just carrying a load she'd assigned to herself.

In this conversation, Laura, founder of Lead Intact and creator of the Founder's Framework, walks through what happened next: a three-month cooldown, an out-of-cycle 16% raise, and a job offer the same day. She shares why she stopped asking about work-life balance, how to notice the ways you volunteer for work that isn't yours, and why your structure should follow your desire.

Listen for the one small Tuesday habit that changed how she thinks about time.

Every practice in your market is about to buy the same AI tools you're considering right now, and that's exactly why this episode matters. Kristie O'Donnell has spent over 20 years building AI systems for companies around the world, and in this conversation she brings that experience directly into the dental chair.We go deep on what's actually happening in dental AI right now: ambient listening tools that turn chairside conversations into structured clinical notes without anyone touching a keyboard, AI phone agents recovering revenue from calls that used to go unanswered, and the real ethical questions practices need to sit with before they mine patient data for personalization. Kristie explains why dentistry, in some specific ways, is already ahead of the rest of healthcare on AI adoption, and she introduces what she calls the automation paradox: the moment every practice in a market has the same tools, those tools stop being an advantage and become the floor everyone stands on.Allison shares a personal story about her father switching dentists at 82 years old, and what the new practice did that no piece of software could replicate on its own.If you're a practice owner wondering where to start, Kristie leaves you with one question to ask every software vendor and two free steps you can take before your first patient walks in tomorrow.Apply for WIDD membership or follow along at @womenindigitaldentistry.