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Special List #23: Partners vs. Associates - What Most Owners Get Wrong with Dr. Adam McClellan

9 July 2026 · 53:40 · Episode 23

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Bring a second periodontist into one of your offices and the dentists who send you cases will still ask for you by name. Adam McClellan's fix is counterintuitive — he stops taking new patients at that location entirely, so there's no option to request him, and the incoming doctor inherits those relationships outright. Adam is the CEO of Periodontal Care, a five-location periodontal group he built across the Kansas…

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