Dr. Melko Podcast
Dr. Christina Blatchford’s Interview with Dr. Shamiram Melko of Sunnyvale, CA
Below are the podcast show notes:
1: 45 – Dr Melko shares how she was either going OON or quitting dentistry
3:49 – Dr Melko shares her quantum leap on Deserve Level and how it inspired her to share her vision, profitability and numbers with her team
8:05 – Advice to dentists who struggle with life-work balance
9:05 – The importance of having very specific practice goals
11:08 – How to go from a PPO Mindset to doing consistently larger cases
12:00 – How going OON gives you more time to build relationships with patients
12:42 – How embracing an Abundant Mindset and creating value is vital to going OON
17:25 – Attracting patients who value our dentistry over their insurance
19:35 – Overcoming the fear of raising your fees
21:25 – Highly effective role-playing strategies for comprehensive dentistry
27:34 – Improving case presentation with more efficient AM and PM huddles
30:28 – Powerful right-brain strategies to discover what’s most important to a patient
32:32– Proven All-on-X case and implant case presentation strategy to segment who is a true candidate
34:15 – Streamlining patient appointments by listening more and talking less
38:40 – Financial conversations that center on what each patient wants
45:06 – Maximizing the structure of new patient appointments