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Dr. Shouvik Ponnusamy @thejawdoc - Dr. Gallagher's Podcast x Dose of Dental Podcast #149
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Top 5 Topics:
- Dental Insurance is a Scam?” – Exposing the $50 Billion Waste in Benefits
- Toothsome Revolution” – How One Oral Surgeon Is Disrupting Dental Care With Patient Advocacy
- From Zero to Zygomatic: Full Arch Implants That Transform Lives
- Why Corporate Dentistry Might Be Failing You” – Inside the Collapse of a Top Implant Center
- The Mouth-Mind Connection” – How Missing Teeth Impact Your Mental Health & Job Prospects
Quotes & Wisdom:
“Once you get the itch to build your own thing, it's hard not to scratch it.”
“Having a schedule that allows you to pursue your passions is a big hack.”
“There’s a whole community of folks who want to learn this stuff.”
“We don’t talk enough about the mouth-mind connection.”
“Our value proposition is: we don’t care who you see, we just want to make sure you see somebody.”
“Only 5% of employees ever reach the maximum benefit of their dental insurance.”
“Follow the money — that’s how we align provider incentives.”
“How do we rebuild a free market in dentistry?”
“Residency is what you make of it. You can survive, or you can get after it.”
“If I had listened to what people wanted, I would have built a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
Questions:
01:12 – Where did you go to residency?
02:15 – What did your wife do after moving to Austin while she was pregnant?
04:18 – Tell me about your schedule—what days do you work, do you work weekends, what are your hours?
12:45 – Were they leaving or left? Did one leave before the other? Were they partners or part of a different organization?
15:17 – What were they giving you? Fee per day, salary, percentage?
17:48 – Do the referred patients stay with the prosthodontist or return to their general dentist?
19:11 – How do you plan your cases? What system do you use—Blue Sky, DTX?
25:17 – Tell me more about Toothsome.
26:46 – Where do you find the patients for Toothsome? Facebook groups?
36:24 – How do we get coverage for underserved communities if we do direct contracting?
Now available on:
- Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel
- Dose of Dental Podcast #149
My watch in this episode = Tag Heuer Aquaracer Calibre 16 Chrono
- 6.2025
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