Even Better the Second Time Around
For 20 years, husband and wife, Randy Bryson, DMD and Toni Margio, DMD built up a highly successful cosmetic dentistry practice in Pennsylvania. While owning a private practice was rewarding for them, they both also loved to teach. When an opportunity to join a dental training facility in Las Vegas opened up, they seized it. “The success of our practice had afforded us the ability to sell our practice, sell our home and move completely across the country to dedicate ourselves to teaching,” said Dr. Bryson.
After moving to Las Vegas and working at the dental training facility for a few months, the doctors began to miss clinical dentistry. “We weren’t ready to retire from clinical dentistry yet,” said Dr. Bryson. After a year, the doctors decided to resign and create their second “from scratch” dental office in Las Vegas.
As a longtime Patterson customer in Pennsylvania, the doctors didn’t hesitate to call the Las Vegas Branch for assistance in setting up their new practice. “Other than calling our family with the news, the next phone call was to Patterson,” said Dr. Bryson. “We knew we wanted to work with them because in Pennsylvania, they had helped us through a major office renovation in 2002. We knew Patterson was going to be the one-stop shop that would allow us to go from the beginning to opening up our new practice.”
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Dentistry as a lifestyle
The first step on the doctors’ new office checklist was a visit to The Scottsdale Center for Dentistry in Scottsdale, Arizona. There, they attended the Practice Harmony office design workshop with Imtiaz Manji. “The course reminded us that dentistry is a lifestyle – it takes up such a big part of your day and week, so you should first make those lifestyle decisions. You should walk into your office and feel good about it each day, and your staff and patients should feel comfortable there, too,” said Dr. Bryson.
With that in mind, the doctors realized that their dream space should not only allow them to provide the best patient care, but also the ability to educate patients and other dentists. Before committing to an office design, Dr. Margio spent countless hours online researching trends and optimal designs. Patterson set up office tours for the doctors and provided an office library for them to look at. The doctors sat down with their Patterson Dental team, and together, they created a floor plan that would enable them to bring their vision to life, while also allowing for future expansion. “Sometimes your facility can be holding you back,” said Dr. Margio. “We are going to be so much more successful now because we have the ability to grow for 10-15 years. If you want your practice to remain vibrant, your facility has to grow.”
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