Bulletproof Dental Practice · 2026-08-03 · 24 min
Dr. Todd Christensen calls in from Minnesota with 20 operatories across two locations, a big remodel behind him, and a question he can't shake: at 45, how does he transition out of clinical dentistry and into the executive role without the guilt? His patients don't make it easy. When he tries to hand them to an associate, they tell him they would rather wait months for him than see anyone else. Peter and Craig push back on the question before they answer it. Todd says he wants out of the chair, but he also says he won't miss fillings, and those are two very different problems. Maybe he doesn't need to leave dentistry at all. Maybe he just needs to stop doing the procedures he hates. The real question is what he wants the next twenty years of his life to look like, and whether he's deciding from clarity or from burnout. Craig shares how his own exit happened: cutting back to Invisalign only, dropping from four days to three to two, until his CEO announced his retirement before he'd fully admitted it to himself.
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