Dr. Bryan Laskin

Dr. Bryan Laskin Modernizing Dental Infrastructure | CEO, Toothapps® | Cair™ powered by Toothapps® | Chairman, Dental Standards Institute

Having learned from 20 years of experience providing dental care to anxious patients, Dr. Bryan Laskin is on a mission to reduce the stress of both dental teams and patients by upgrading care through innovation, education and Standardization. Creator of Upgrade Dental, Digital Nitrous, OperaDDS, co-founder of ToothApps, as well as author of the Amazon best selling book “The Patient First Manifesto

,” Dr. Laskin excels at helping others integrate technology and teamwork into their practices. Dr. Laskin plays an active role in driving innovation at several progressive dental organizations, including Abundents, Vyne Dental, Lake Minnetonka Dental, Talentship, Evergreen, Kwikly and Dental Care Alliance. Dr. Laskin also serves as counsel to many leading companies in dentistry. Through his participation on the groundbreaking workgroups at Dental Standards Institute, Dr. Laskin is giving patients a voice as well as creating important guidelines for emerging technologies. To connect with Dr. Laskin, visit BryanLaskin.com

Ask this at your next leadership meeting: "What’s one thing we do every day that would look completely absurd to any oth...
08/20/2026

Ask this at your next leadership meeting: "What’s one thing we do every day that would look completely absurd to any other industry?"

Between paper referrals, re-entering patient info, and playing phone tag, healthcare is packed with processes we’ve just accepted as "normal."

These aren't just annoying admin tasks that are taking up your team's valuable time, they're revenue leaks. Every time a referral drops off or a follow-up gets missed, patient care stalls and revenue disappears.

Run the Absurdity Check and share yours in the comments 👇️

Are you buying innovative technology, or are you just accumulating disconnected products that don’t work together?In my ...
08/19/2026

Are you buying innovative technology, or are you just accumulating disconnected products that don’t work together?

In my latest podcast episode, I’m issuing a "CEO Diagnosis" for practice owners, DSO executives, and dental tech leaders. I’ve put together 7 questions you need to bring to your next leadership meeting to audit your current systems.

We have to stop judging innovation by how impressive a tool looks on a conference stage, and start judging it by the structural change it creates. If your software forces your team into manual workarounds, leaves data siloed, or drops patients into a black hole the minute they leave the chair, your infrastructure is broken.

Listen to the full episode of The Bryan Laskin Podcast (link in bio) to get the 7 audit questions and learn how to close the gap between Diagnosis to Dollars™.

Let's stop automating dysfunction and start building a truly connected ecosystem.

08/14/2026

Ask a dentist how AI is being used in dentistry, and they’ll probably say, “Oh, analyzing radiographs.”

Meanwhile, your patients are at home copying and pasting your treatment plans into ChatGPT like: "Be honest... do I REALLY need this crown, or is my dentist buying a new boat?"

Have your patients brought up AI-generated medical advice to you yet? Drop your funniest (or most concerning) stories below! 👇

For decades, dentistry has focused almost all of its innovation on improving the time that the patient is in our chair. ...
08/12/2026

For decades, dentistry has focused almost all of its innovation on improving the time that the patient is in our chair. But what if the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes outside our chair?

That's the question behind this month's Connected Dentistry® Newsletter.

It's a conversation about connected care, connected systems, and why the future of dentistry extends far beyond the operatory.



Link to the Connected Dentistry® Newsletter in bio.

A big misconception in digital health is that growth comes at the expense of patient experience. That's why I'm excited ...
08/11/2026

A big misconception in digital health is that growth comes at the expense of patient experience. That's why I'm excited about the results offices are getting with Toothapps® + Cair™.

In just four months of a recent pilot, Cair™ downloads more than tripled with consistent patient engagement. 54%of patients continued completing revenue-driving self-service actions like scheduling appointments, making payments, and using secure chat.

Scaling a digital platform is one thing. But when technology becomes part of the patient experience, patients forget it is tech and you create lasting value that drives Diagnosis-to-Dollars™ conversion.

08/07/2026

One of the easiest mistakes to make as a leader is assuming every important decision can be justified by a spreadsheet. While traditional dashboards can measure what happened, they often struggle to measure why it happened.

Patient trust. Team engagement. Whether patients stayed connected after they left the office. Those are the factors that ultimately determine long-term growth, yet they're rarely measured in a meaningful way.

Next week I'm partnering with National Dentex Labs for a live webinar exploring how we can close the gap between dentist...
08/05/2026

Next week I'm partnering with National Dentex Labs for a live webinar exploring how we can close the gap between dentistry and medicine through new interoperability standards, incentives, and modern technology. I'll show how integrating health data transforms patient care and drives practice success.

📅 Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT
🎓 CE: 1 Credit (Complimentary)
👉 Register at: https://bit.ly/Laskin081126

Patients are making health decisions based on information they don't even trust. A study published in JAMA reveals a dic...
08/03/2026

Patients are making health decisions based on information they don't even trust.

A study published in JAMA reveals a dichotomy in healthcare: 77.7% of social media users know the health info on their feeds is false or misleading, yet over 21% still make actual health choices based on it.

Why? Because convenience beats friction every single time.

In dentistry, we see the consequences of this every day. A patient nods along in the chair, walks out to their car, forgets half of what was explained, and turns to the internet for answers. They aren't looking for bad advice, they're looking for quick clarity. If their doctor's real advice requires phone tag, they default to whatever content fills the void.

If we want patients to follow through on necessary care, we have to make accessing our clinical guidance as effortless as opening an app on their phone...literally.

How is your organization making sure your voice is the one patients hear after they leave the practice?

Link to the JAMA study in the comments 👇️

07/30/2026

Josh DeVries made a great analogy that sparked a discussion about one question every dental practice should be asking:

When should technology create convenience... and when should it get out of the way so people can connect with a real person?

Curious where you land after watching this clip.

Chasing the latest technology alone won't separate successful practices from everyone else. The organizations that will ...
07/28/2026

Chasing the latest technology alone won't separate successful practices from everyone else. The organizations that will win are the ones that use technology to create better patient experiences, build trust, and remove friction throughout the patient journey. It's about knowing where technology creates real value and where the human experience still matters most.

That's exactly what Josh DeVries, CEO of Intiveo, and I discuss in this latest episode of The Bryan Laskin Podcast.

Link in bio to check out the full episode.

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