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Pat Bauer on How Heartland Dental Scaled From 8 to 1,900 Practices Without Losing Soul: The 100th Episode

27 November 2025 · 47:01 · Episode 100

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When a DSO legend like Pat Bauer, President and CEO of Heartland Dental, tells you to lead with kindness, you listen. In the 100th episode of The Dental Economist Show, Mike Huffaker and Pat explore Pat’s incredible journey from working at a gas station to building a DSO behemoth, the power of kindness, building sustainable organizational culture, maintaining clinical autonomy at scale and the power of consistent…

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