"What amazes me is how much you can communicate with so few words." - Dr. Jeff Rouse on Dr. Frank Spear  The Spear Summit is very much like a family reunion of the whole Spear Education family! (also just about the best dental meeting anywhere) The history of the Spear Summit Young dentists need Spear Education as much as Spear needs young dentists! How the pandemic affected dental school and what Spear was able to help The new generation of dentists (including Frank's son) On being a "dental dad." Frank on storytelling Dental needs, personal dental values and patient resources Anyone who shows up in your office has some value for dentistry 43 patients that I this dentist didn't want If you want to have a long, healthy life in dentistry...do these things Do procedures that you want to be doing... On patients that you want to be doing them on... With a team that you love working with Setting patients free Some links from the show:  Spear Education Spear Practice Solutions Spear Online Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook," "McWethy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in between and the best prices you’ll find anywhere! If you head over to verydentalpodcast.com/crazy and use coupon code “verydental10” you’ll get another 10% off your order! Go save yourself some money and support the show all at the same time! -- The Wonderist Agency is basically a one stop shop for marketing your practice and your brand. From logo redesign to a full service marketing plan, the folks at Wonderist have you covered! Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/wonderist! -- Enova Illumination makes the very best in loupes and headlights, including their new ergonomic angled prism loupes! They also distribute loupe mounted cameras and even the amazing line of Zumax microscopes! If you want to help out the podcast while upping your magnification and headlight game, you need to head over to verydentalpodcast.com/enova to see their whole line of products!   CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even  their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you’ll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!