LINK TO microCE Course Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Ever forget to pack a lunch and just grab a handful of cookies? Here's another microCE episode offering through the podcast! Click the link at the top of the show notes to claim your microCE credit. We're heading in a r…

LINK TO microCE Course Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Going to an all you can eat buffet? Would it be like Shawn's bargain basement Chinese food, or Zach's high end strip club smorgasbord? Here's another microCE episode offering through the podcast! Click the link at the t…

LINK TO microCE Course Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Thanksgiving just keeps going with a fabulous Potbelly Turducken sandwich. Welcome to the first microCE course offering through the podcast! Click the link at the top of the show notes to claim your microCE credit. We'r…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. It looks like Zach's fabulous lunch streak has finally come to an end. He's slumming it today with one of the most overrated all-American lunches: soggy nachos. We're jumping into the fight between research results and manufacturer sales pitc…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. It's close to Thanksgiving and turkey's on our minds... and so is roast duck... and chicken. We discuss the exciting world of partial dentures this week. Actually, there's a lot more to removable than just full dentures. The intricacy of part…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Zach gets some cravings for a homemade chillito with fresh ground beef and goat's milk cheese. Shawn? Not so fresh. We 10X'd our endo irrigation last time, so we're progressing to 10X obturation this week. Check out several different obturati…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. When you order in lunch, is it made right there in the office? Nothing beats nachos without some in-office, made-to-order on-site guacamole. This is another of our endo episodes and we're 10X'ing our irrigation protocol. SmearOFF for some val…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Welcome back to the D.O.P.E. Lunch reboot! We took a short, well, lunch break, and thank you for waiting for us! Even Zach's specialist thank you baskets are better! In this episode we're discussing bite splints. Do you outsource all your spl…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Even when Zach DOESN'T eat, it's gotta be in an expensive way. We're discussing cosmetics and waxups and case presentations on this week's episode. How do you do a full arch temporization? Do you do staged rehabs and offer patients an initial…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Even Zach's leftovers are exotic. Reheated fish sticks? Well, kinda. Sometimes the best return is to go through the backdoor. At least, that's what Zach recommends. Our in-house money man Zach breaks down how to get a better return and reduce…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. What do you do when you're just sitting around the office? You make gourmet chili! Duh! We're talking about more epic failures in the industry, a couple types of indirect restorations and impression materials. This week's Mad Dentist Minute: …

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Shawn's lunch FINALLY overtakes Zach's ... oh ... wait a minute. The Dental Tax is back in D.O.P.E. Lunch's Internet Marketers episode. Don't be fooled! This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Don't spend $10 if you only get the tip! Use fiber spools…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Zach splurges on 100 year old pizza, sorta. This week we're checking out state of the art, ceramic infused composites. Are they worth it? This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Another show to wind down with, Who Is America? Send us your questions o…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Shawn's usually a three egg omelet kinda guy. Zach does omelets with a single egg, usually feeding his family of four with it. This week is more bur talk. Clinical efficiency improvement with occlusal reduction burs and cost savings with Doc …

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Doc Meiners doesn't do pedestrian PB&J. Get a load of how The Ultimate PB&J is made. We dive into practice management this week with a critique of the instructional video featuring Dr. Alan Feinstone. We're dropping clinical pearls all over t…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. They taste just like chicken! Who knew? This week's Mad Dentist Minute: a quick way to see how you're related to weird Uncle Kenny (we've all got one). Send us your questions or comments to shawn@dopelunch.com or zach@dopelunch.com and hit us…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Have you ever been part of the mad dash for Costco crab legs? Send us your questions or comments to shawn@dopelunch.com or zach@dopelunch.com and hit us up on Facebook. Until next week... STAY DOPE! DOPE Lunch is the lunchtime dental podcast …

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Locally source corn on the cob and grilled flank steak. Gimme a break, Meiners! Send us your questions or comments to shawn@dopelunch.com or zach@dopelunch.com and hit us up on Facebook. Until next week... STAY DOPE! DOPE Lunch is the lunchti…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Seriously, even when he does tacos, Zach does them right. We're back on a little clinical track talking about sealants. Do you place them? When? What's your protocol? Mad Dentist Minute: acorn tip bur - Dentalree.com C19L905-029 - AKA "The Sk…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. This is Shawn's follow up solo episode. He talks about internet marketing with Facebook ads and what 3 key ingredients you need for a great ad landing page. The Mad Dentist Minute covers some free social media monitoring apps for your busines…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. First things first, whip out your calendar and circle today. It's the first time D.O.P.E. Lunch has a solo host. Monumental! We didn't want to 86 the episodes this week so Zach serves up a solo episode today. Didn't want to get stale. What do…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Time to put on our honesty hats. This week's lunch topic is a little uncomfortable to talk about, but it's a growing problem among the newest minted docs out there. Living below your means, in your practice AND your personal life. We didn't w…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. It's an exciting time for Shawn as he's welcoming another child to his family We're going meta for today's lunch. It's the podcast about podcasts today. Did you know there are over 50 dental specific podcasts? There's only ONE comprehensive d…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. All those kids are making Shawn crazy! Zach gets a suite gift from a patient and is looking forward to a delicious K.C. Boss. Which would you rather have? The K.C. Boss or a green kale lemonade? There's no contest, really. This week we get in…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Order up! Conch ceviche from Turks and Caicos and soggy Red Lobster popcorn shrimp. Recipe for conch ceviche We take a short dental detour this week and talk about a fun and sometimes expensive pasttime we both enjoy: poker. We hope the denta…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. This week, it's coconut shrimp and fried rice up against house label clam chowder. We're talking core buildups this week. Yummy! Shawn talks about how, if you've got a same-day dentistry solution, you can combine a core buildup in the cementa…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. This is the episode you've all been waiting for. Well... it's the reason we started the podcast, really. We've been wanting to discuss more comparisons of digital workflows and we're noshing on intraoral scanners in this one. What do you need…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. We get a little snarky during this DOPE Lunch and discuss a well known Mad Dentist Minute for denture repairs. Alan Mead podcasts the Dental Hacks (with Jason Lipscomb) and The Alan Mead Experience. "You can't measure your insides against eve…

Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch with Shawn and Zach, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist. Today, Zach tells the analog dentist crew how to save tons of money using Safco house brand anesthetic and PVS for pre-op impressions. In the lunchtime Mad Dentist Minute Shawn reveals how he screenshots everything with integrated editing tool…

We hope you're enjoying a D.O.P.E. Lunch today. Bon appetit! In this sophomore episode of D.O.P.E. Lunch, Shawn brings the knowledge bombs on digital dentistry workflows for the most common procedure in the office- a single crown. Zach, of course, has a savory course to much on and reminisces on the Snarky Dentist segment we ported over. D.O.P.E. L…

This is the story of the beginnings of D.O.P.E. Lunch and why Shawn and Zach think every dentist has something they can take away from the podcast. Bon Appetit!By DOPE Lunch

DOPE Lunch is a new podcast from Zach and Shawn. Each week we'll serve up piping hot dental topics, like 3D printing and scanning, and give you meaty banter to enjoy while you're, well, eating lunch! Join Zach and Shawn each Tuesday for a DOPE Lunch.