Episode 236: Gary Bird

The Biggest 2026 Bottleneck in Dental!

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In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down the biggest bottleneck limiting dental practice growth in 2026 and why most dental marketing leads never convert into new patients. Learn how average time to appointment drives no-show rates, kills ROI, and silently caps collections even when your dental marketing is working. Gary explains why hygiene scheduling is the real constraint, how block scheduling fixes patient access, and why faster scheduling is now a competitive advantage in dentistry. This episode is essential for dentists, practice owners, and DSOs focused on dental growth, new patient conversion, reducing no-shows, and improving marketing ROI. If you want more new patients without spending more on ads, this is the metric you must fix first.