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The Orthopreneurs Podcast with Dr. Glenn Krieger
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The Orthopreneurs Podcast with Dr. Glenn Krieger
Your Practice Isn’t Full—You Have a Bottleneck l 5MF
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What if I told you your practice doesn’t need more chairs, more days, or more team members—it needs you to find the bottleneck that’s quietly killing your capacity?
In this episode of Five Minute Friday, I’m talking about something most orthodontists don’t spend nearly enough time thinking about: throughput and capacity. After a recent Orthopreneurs RD Blueprint webinar, I wanted to share a key concept that can completely change the way you look at growth in your practice.
Too many orthodontists assume they need to hire another assistant, add another day, bring in an associate, or change the schedule when the real issue is much simpler: there’s a bottleneck somewhere in the system. Whether it’s scheduling, new patient flow, TC capacity, remote monitoring, or clinical chair time, your job as the leader is to identify the constraint, solve it, and then move to the next one.
💬Quotes
“Never, ever, ever deal with another aspect of that system until the bottleneck itself has been solved.”
— Dr. Glenn Krieger
“You have a maximum production number you can hit with the resources you currently have, and we know for a fact you are nowhere near that number.”
— Dr. Glenn Krieger
🎯 Key Takeaways
Intro (00:00)
The Blueprint series and why business-school concepts matter in orthodontics (00:26)
What throughput and capacity mean for your practice growth (01:15)
Why bottlenecks must be solved before adding more resources (01:40)
The scheduling mistake that makes practices think they’re at capacity (02:04)
Why hiring another assistant or adding another day may not solve the real problem (02:28)
New patient flow, TC capacity, and hidden constraints (03:25)
Remote monitoring as a capacity unlock (04:18)
Why most practices are nowhere near their true production potential (05:29)
How measuring patient flow can reveal major inefficiencies (06:18)
Find the bottleneck, fix it, then move to the next one (07:18)
🟦 Additional Resources
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