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This is the Spirit of US Endo.
As an aligned collective we are saving more teeth and changing more lives - including our own.
We are a national network of growth-minded clinicians, who collaborate to create better outcomes for our patients, partners and teams, and to advance the endodontic specialty. By sharing best practices and key learnings, challenging each other to push past comfort zones, and encouraging our peers to think bigger, we achieve a higher level of success – while feeling invigorated, connected and content in our careers and at home.
Become a partner – with a voice and equity ownership – in top-tier practices across the country, and gain an unparalleled business support team.
As endodontists and business owners, we face significant challenges. The patient is always our priority, but relentless administrative tasks, a highly competitive landscape, and limited marketing and business analytics resources, to name a few, can be overwhelming burdens.
Partnering with US Endo alleviates that pressure, putting you in a position to provide the utmost in patient care, maximize your success and secure your future. You'll have an ownership stake in US Endo Partners so you’ll benefit from your own success, and from the continued growth of other practices.
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Committed to our patients and to each other
Creating outstanding patient experiences is the cornerstone of our core values because it's our top priority. We know it's yours, too.
We practice empathy with each patient encounter and foster a culture of constant learning and improvement so that we can help even more patients, expand access to care, and spread the life-changing power of saving teeth.
When you join US Endo, your patients win.
Partnering with US Endo is so much more than a great business opportunity. Our culture is about growth in every aspect of our lives – from improving our communication skills to leadership training, to advanced clinical training courses and beyond.
Being part of US Endo offers the chance to become not only a better endodontist, but also a better boss, a better spouse, and a better friend.
We feel the empowering connection and support of belonging to a special community invested in each other's success. Our annual Vision Summit brings us all together to focus on personal and professional growth, while building strong friendships, and our new suite of comprehensive development programs drives fulfillment.
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Our Support Team works with the business side of your practice in areas from marketing and human resources, to revenue cycle management and compliance, and is dedicated to you, your team, and your work-life balance.
This supportive-community dimension of US Endo Partners develops and insulates us as endodontists. In short – they do what they do best, so we can do what we do best.
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Doing the right thing, the right way, is the foundation for our proven business model.
Partners are Class A shareholders in the company, which means you invest in your partners, and they invest in you. Moreover, as a practicing endodontist, your work continues to produce for you at the same time as your investment does. This allows Partners to realize the benefits of retirement while they’re still building – and benefiting from – their careers.
We have worked hard to improve and expand access to care, and to take care of our team members for the growth of our practices - and financial success has naturally followed. And this is just the beginning.
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Meet US in Person
Built on a rock-solid foundation stemming from a friendship that began in dental school, the team at Northern Colorado Endodontics has been tapping into the power of partnership almost 25 years, though their collaboration with US Endo will only be a year old this July.
Founding partners Dr. Shane Bergo and Dr. Brad LeValley opened the doors to the practice in 1997 after reconnecting at that year’s AAE Annual Meeting in Seattle. Dr. Galen Geraets and Dr. Colby Dimond joined in later years, rounding out what seems like a band of brothers. “I don’t take (the relationships) for granted,” LeValley said. “We all have the same goals in the end and it’s all about patient care.”
That holds true for Practice Manager Norea Schmollinger, as well, who has served the flourishing team for more than 20 years.
“(The practice) is my first child,” Schmollinger said. “It’s been exciting to see them grow, and to watch the practice grow and mature into what it is. It’s really phenomenal.”
The group practices within three locations in the diverse communities of Fort Collins, Longmont and Greeley, Colorado, all at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The offices are strategically placed so that the team can easily cover any location but spread by enough distance that patients – even those from neighboring states like Wyoming and Nebraska – can access care when needed. LeValley said that reach is particularly important because there aren’t many options for specialty dental services in the Plains.
“Multiple offices in just the right locations is key,” said Dr. Dimond. “We’re definitely helping more people who are in pain because we can get them in quickly.”
Though there are no plans in the works right now, further expansion might be necessary to meet the regional demand in the future, likely by adding hours or teammates. The doctors said those types of transitions will be much easier with the backing of US Endo.
“We have resources to find great associates and partners because we can cast a wider net now,” said Dr. Bergo. “It does eliminate some of those sleepless nights.”
Learn more about Northern Colorado Endo at www.coloradoendo.com.
Dr. Jason Putnam, DMD
Coastal Carolina Endodontics
After 15 years of running a successful solo practice in Bluffton, SC, Dr. Jason Putnam, DMD, began to feel isolated and burned out. He knew he needed more – a new goal, mission, or direction in his professional career. He and his wife, Casey, who serves as Practice Manager, were advised by a colleague from residency to take a look at US Endo.
“I hadn’t heard of US Endo, but is sounded like something that would give us options and possibly rejuvenate us a little bit,” he said. “I was really interested in experiencing camaraderie with other doctors, exchanging ideas, and finding new motivations for myself and my team”. Dr. Putnam partnered with US Endo in August 2021 and then attended his first Vision Summit, our annual Partners’ meeting, in October. He expected to establish positive relationships with his new business partners, but didn’t expect to be so inspired by the experience.
“It was the most profound experience of my career. I left the Summit bursting with motivation and new ideas that I could not wait to share with my team,” Dr. Putnam said. “I knew something big was about to happen. I didn’t really have a specific goal. I just knew we were going to take a huge step toward our true potential.”
Dr. Putnam called a team meeting upon arrival back in South Carolina and was blown away by his team’s interest in improving efficiencies to increase access to care and to get more patients out of pain each day.
It didn’t take long to see a significant impact. Within a two-month time span, and without working more hours, Dr. Putnam and his team were able to increase the number of patients they could help each day by 50 percent over the previous year. In his third month after the Summit, Dr. Putnam and his team had dialed in their new motivations and efficiencies resulting in a staggering 103 percent improvement – more than doubling the number of patients they were able to help.
“We are absolutely jamming! We are helping twice as many patients each day and my team and I have never been so motivated and happy. We’re having fun again,” Dr. Putnam said.
“US Endo has completely and utterly changed my life. My experience so far has simply been phenomenal. It has been an awakening – a resurrection of my career and passion for this specialty.”
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