A book by Ryan Smith, DDS
Coming soonYou’re the Dentist Now
A Mentor’s Guide for New Dentists
The degree is on the wall. The next patient is in the chair. And everyone is looking at you.
Coming soon in Paperback and Kindle.
- Written for
- New dentists
- Practical chapters
- 25
- Paperback pages
- 276
- By
- Ryan Smith, DDS
Inside the book
The questions that come with the title.
You worked hard to become a dentist. But a full schedule, an associate contract, an anxious patient, and a student loan payment can make the first years feel nothing like you expected. This is the guide Ryan wishes he had when he started: honest stories, practical strategies, and lessons learned the hard way.
Read it from the beginning, or go straight to the chapter that speaks to the problem in front of you.
Find your clinical footing
Build confidence and improve efficiency while keeping patient care at the center.
Choose your next step
Evaluate associate opportunities, understand compensation, and ask better questions before signing a contract.
Have better conversations
Explain treatment, build patient trust, and work through the conversations you cannot rehearse in dental school.
Work with your team
Develop the relationships and daily habits that make demanding days more manageable.
Make sense of the money
Think more clearly about debt, income, ownership, and the career you want to build.
Keep a life outside dentistry
Recognize burnout, set boundaries, and make room for the things that matter beyond the practice.
A mentor’s perspective
You’re the dentist now. You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
Dental students approaching graduation and dentists navigating their first years in practice.
The reader’s companion
Put your next chapter into practice.
Resources coming soon
A dedicated home for practical tools to use alongside the book. Bookmark the reader page and return as new resources are added.
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Meet the author
Ryan Smith, DDS
Ryan Smith, DDS is a dentist, dental influencer, author and business educator who has owned and managed more than 20 dental practices. His content draws on firsthand experience in practice ownership, leadership and the business of dentistry. He has 100,000+ YouTube subscribers and tens of thousands of followers across other social platforms and writes The Dental Grind newsletter.
In this book, Ryan brings the candor of a colleague and the encouragement of a mentor to the decisions that shape a dental career.
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