The Arun & Chris Show: Live & Uncut
The conversations UK practice owners actually need.
A monthly live broadcast where a dental financier and a dental business coach combine what they each see in UK practices, and have the conversations the rest of the dental press is too polished to attempt.
UK dental practice owners get plenty of advice. They rarely get it from both sides of the desk at once.
Most operational coaches don't talk fluently about EBITDA multiples, interest-rate exposure, or what a group buyer will actually pay this year. Most financiers don't sit with owners on a Tuesday morning watching the diary, the team, and the patient journey unravel in real time.
This show exists because the most valuable conversations in dentistry happen at the intersection of those two views, and almost nobody is having them in public.
What he sees in the operations: where margin is leaking, where teams are quietly failing, where owners are working harder for less.
What he sees in the numbers: how practices are being valued, what the buyer pool is doing, where the financing reality is biting.
Where they agree, owners get conviction. Where they disagree, owners get something rarer still: a real argument, on air, between two people who actually know what they're talking about.
Each session is anchored to a specific, identifiable problem facing UK dental practices right now. Name the problem clearly. Then deliver practical, dual-perspective solutions.
Why owners are quietly going backwards
Why fees haven't kept up with costs, what's really stopping owners from raising them, and the three numbers every principal should be watching every month.
The white space problem nobody wants to talk about
Why UK dental diaries have so much room in them, and why throwing more money at Google Ads won't fix it.
Where AI earns its keep, and where it's still noise
Reception, TCOs, diagnostics, treatment-plan preparation. The tools are arriving fast. The question is which ones are worth your time.
The brutal arithmetic most owners haven't faced
Operating costs per surgery per day have doubled in four years. Fees haven't followed. Time to sit down and do the maths.
Burnout, behaviour, and the conversations owners keep avoiding
The hard chats. The long-serving team member who's quietly disengaged. The brilliant clinician who's also toxic. The clinicians cutting days down: wellbeing win, or a signal something's broken in the business model?
When too many choices become no choice
PMS, CRM, AI reception, scanners, software. Why so many owners can't pull the trigger on anything, and what the underlying leadership gap really is.
Upcoming broadcasts
Live every month, Tuesday evenings 17:30–18:30. Block out the dates. Recordings posted after each broadcast for those who can't make it live.
The most contested terrain in UK dental right now: group valuations, DSO dynamics, and what practices are actually worth in today's interest-rate environment.
The assumption of ever-rising multiples is unsustainable. Groups that bought on optimistic projections are facing a looming reckoning, and independent owners thinking about a sale need to understand what buyers will actually pay, not what brokers tell them they might.
This is the conversation almost no one in the dental press is willing to have plainly. Arun will lead it.
Director of Business Education at The Campbell Academy
Chris works hands-on with independent dental practice owners across the UK, and that client base is the data source: operating costs per surgery per day have doubled in four years. He brings the operational lens: what's actually happening on the ground, and what owners can do about it.
CEO at Samera
Arun brings the financier's view of UK dentistry: practice valuations, group dynamics, EBITDA multiples, and the current interest-rate reality. He's the voice asking whether the numbers stack up, and what sellers, buyers, and operators should be doing differently right now.
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