Bulletproof Dental Practice
with Craig Spodak and Peter Boulden
Practice Ownership · Intermediate · Coaching/Program, Conference · 16 CE credits · $1,150
AI Researched CE Compass Brief
AI Researched Review Brief
Bulletproof Dental Practice grew out of a podcast two practice owners started to talk openly about the business side of dentistry, and its annual Summit brings that conversation into one room for doctors and their teams. The program is built around a practice that runs better with less dependence on the owner, through stronger leadership, systems, and team culture.
What makes the experience different:
- Led by Dr. Craig Spodak, a Tufts dental graduate who joined his father's practice in 1998 and now leads Spodak Dental Group in Delray Beach, Florida, and Dr. Peter Boulden, a University of Kentucky DMD whose Atlanta Dental Spa operates several locations across the Atlanta area.
- Rooted in the Bulletproof podcast, which began with a 2016 conversation between the two founders and has grown past 450 episodes.
- Runs as a multi day, in person summit with breakout sessions, workshops, and a kickoff party, with separate doctor and team tickets so offices can attend together.
- Features speakers, including practice owners, hygienists, and coaches, who share what they are doing in their own practices, and every attendee receives a Summit Field Manual.
- Offers a path to ongoing coaching through the Bulletproof Mastermind, which adds weekly live sessions with open Q&A, monthly coaching intensives, and two private retreats.
Best practical takeaways:
- Leadership habits that build a more autonomous team
- Systems that reduce the owner's role in daily operations
- Case acceptance and patient experience ideas you can use right away
- Marketing approaches that attract and keep the right patients
- Clearer ways to track the financial and operational health of the practice
- A shared vision with team members who heard the same message
Program distinction: The Bulletproof Summit is not a clinical CE meeting or a series of disconnected business lectures. Its value is hearing practice owners share what works for them and seeing how leadership, team culture, systems, marketing, and patient experience connect to the success of the whole practice. Verified attendee feedback highlights speakers teaching from their own practices rather than theory, and one consistent theme tying the sessions together.
Best for: practice owners, along with the office managers and key team members they bring, who want practical business and leadership ideas they can start using as soon as they return. It is most valuable if you arrive with a written list of your biggest practice challenges and attend with your team, so everyone leaves with the same plan.
What dentists said (1)
The biggest takeaway for me was seeing how all the little pieces of running a successful practice fit together. This wasn't one of those meetings where every lecture feels disconnected. Everything built on the same theme of creating a practice that runs better for your team, your patients, and yourself. I came away with practical ideas on leadership, case acceptance, marketing, systems, and patient experience that I could actually implement when I got back to the office.
What I liked most was that almost every speaker was sharing things they were actively doing in their own practices instead of just teaching theory. It felt less like a traditional CE conference and more like learning directly from practice owners who have already solved many of the problems you're dealing with. I left with pages of notes and several ideas that I started implementing almost immediately. It also gave me a better understanding of how leadership, team culture, and business systems all impact clinical success.
I'd recommend going with your office manager or a few key team members if you can. A lot of the value comes from everyone hearing the same message and leaving with a shared vision instead of trying to explain everything when you get back home. I also found it helpful to write down the biggest challenges in my practice before attending, because you'll hear plenty of solutions that you can relate directly to your own office.