Why Biodentrix Aims to Merge AI, Holistic Care, and Scalable Practice Models to Transform the Dental Industry
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Show Notes:
In this episode of Mission Matters, host Adam Torres interviews Corbin Matthews, Founder of Biodentrix, about his journey from dentist to quantum healer. Corbin shares how a life-changing accident and burnout led him to launch a dental model that blends eastern and western medicine, AI automation, and community-based practice ownership creating healing opportunities for both patients and providers. Recorded live at the Newport Beach Investor Conference.
About Corbin Matthews
Dr. Corbin Matthews grew up in Provo, Utah. He attended Timpview High School and Brigham Young University. In 1999, he received his dental degree from the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry. He graduated at the top of his class and received awards of excellence in restorative and cosmetic dentistry. He also was the recipient of the OKU award, given to select students for excellence in academics. Dr. Matthews has been practicing in the Utah County area for over 13 years and has continued his training to include all aspects of dentistry, including wisdom teeth removal, implant surgery, oral conscious sedation and laser surgery.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today we are in Newport Beach at the Newport Beach Investor Conference, and let me tell you, we’ve been meeting with investors, we’ve been.
Companies that are raising capital. There was a pitch competition, tons of boots, a whole area there, saw, met, and saw a bunch of different technology. So lots of fun here. And next on the show is Corbin. So Corbin, welcome. Hey, welcome. Alright, so this is one of my favorite conferences. It gives me an excuse to make it down to Newport, number one, and there’s always a great crowd.
So, have you been to one of these before? Is this the first? No, this is my first time. Yeah. It’s exciting. Some incredible technology and people, everybody has been so friendly. Yeah. You know, and you love the collaboration. I mean, there was a robot out there. That’s what I want in my house. Yeah. And so I’m excited to be here and such great ways to either invest or raise capital for your company.
So I’m excited to be here. Awesome. It’s nice to meet you. So, so talk a little bit about your company and what you’re up to. Yeah. That’s great. You know, the company’s name is Bio Dentrix and it’s really a passion of mine and that I’ve had really a visual and a dream to help create. Mm. I’ve been a, I’m a, I was a dentist.
I’m now retired. Yeah. And after retirement and having gone through 25 years of practicing dentistry, I really saw the evolution of a dentist’s life. My dad’s a dentist. Mm. I’ve got two brothers that are practicing dentists currently, and I saw what my dad went through. Yeah. And how he retired. I said, there’s just gotta be a different way.
Well, I also have a lot of physicians that are in the same boat. It’s kind of like, oh, doc, I mean, dentists. Mm-hmm. But you know, they’re in that ra rat race when they got their head down doing their thing. Yeah. And they, they really don’t have time to look up and enjoy life. Mm-hmm. So that’s what our company is, is really merging those two.
Modalities, but through something different. Mm-hmm. Really try and change the name of dentist. I mean, that’s gives everybody Yeah. You know, immediately it goes to the pit of your stomach and anxiety and things like that. Mm-hmm. More turning the dentist into a healer. Mm-hmm. I mean, an overall practitioner that it starts in the mouth.
Yeah. I mean, the smile is really an entrance to your small, to your soul. Mm. Like. What was it? I gotta stay back in the day here. Yeah, family. A dentist. What? What do you man? Dinner table talk holidays. What was it like growing up? We talked about root canals and you have patient this and stop. Stop. Yeah. I mean, we were in the beginning all the time and now we’re like, we’re not talking about it at all.
So, but my dad was our mentor. I mean yeah. We were able to collaborate, share. That’s cool. And when we got out of dental school, we were light years ahead of Oh for sure. Of the other dentists. ’cause he was right there, you know, teaching us about the things and his challenges. Yeah. And dentistry is such a relationship.
Mm-hmm. Type of profession. I mean, you can see people from when they were small mm-hmm. Till they’re married, till they have kids. And that’s why I went into dentistry. Yeah. I really thought medicine, you know, is the way to go. Maybe I’ll be a plastic surgeon. But I really knew was that connection to our patients.
Yeah. And you might have been banished from the family? I don’t know. No. Son of mine’s coming home and being a plans, you know, we’re dentist family, you know, my dad actually had us read books that said Choose, you know, professions. We go meet professionals and we all end up being dentists. Yeah. Wow. That’s cool.
Testament to your dad too big shot out there like that. Yeah, he’s, he’s amazing. You know, Dr. Gary Matthews and he’s my. He’s my mentor and I mean, just my idol. Yeah. So I really appreciate it, but I knew there was more that we could do. How did you like, so take me to that, either that moment or that progression to when you knew there was more we can do.
Like what did that look like? And the reason I ask that question, by the way, is ’cause a lot of entrepreneurs out there, a lot of executives that watch this show, and sometimes we have ideas or we have this. Thing but we don’t like push through. Like what was it like for you when you decided to build on something that is arguably very hard to build on?
Right. Well it was actually duplicating yourself, dentist think I do it the best, they’re coming for me and no one else can be doing it better. ’cause very just think the same thing. Well I think everybody does. No one can do it like me whether or not we admit it or not. Right. Right. And my dad could never leave the practice or his bus for more than three days.
’cause who was gonna cover, there was emergencies. So I’d say it’s back in 2003. I’m like, yeah, there’s gotta be a better way and duplicating, and that’s bringing in a new young blood associate Wow. To really start to actually hand over your mm-hmm. You know, skillset. And also began to, gave me a, a, you know, a chance to have a normal life.
The day that it changed it though was in 2018. Mm-hmm. I fell asleep. Mm-hmm. Heading up to, you know, park City in Utah and hit a young man. Mm. Totally falling asleep with two of my kids in the car. Yeah, I came out of that accident actually no injury. My car, if I shooted a picture, you’re like, oh my goodness, how’s that possible?
Right? How’s it even possible? And the young man spent several months in the hospital, almost died. Oh. And I said, there’s gotta be something different. I was exhausted working six days a week trying to build, you know, I had three practices at the time. Oh man. And I said, I’ve gotta take a step back. Mm-hmm.
I wanna, I really wanna look at this different. And that really started the journey where we grew to four to five until we formed. Mm-hmm. What we call A-D-S-O-A dental Ds O. Mm-hmm. Corporate structure, where now it’s called dentist. We have 113 dental profession practices. But it was to say we gotta do it differently.
Yeah. You know, we gotta put the dentist in, in leadership and then give them a way of life. Yeah. Bringing in the new associates. So that’s when it started and it’s been. You know, my mind’s been churning to now we’re quantum healers, you know, kind of thing. So it’s so exciting. It’s my passion, it’s what I love.
Oh man. That is so exciting. And so what has been the, obviously that’s a lot of dental practices. Yeah. A lot of dentists. Yeah. What’s been the feedback on, on the work overall? I’m just curious. From the, from the dental community? Yeah. Like what is, what’s that been like? ’cause you’re building on a, on a you a legacy.
Yeah. It it, and that’s what it is. It’s a legacy. Absolutely. Passing that on is so. So important for me and, and, and the model of collapsing community and coming together. The dentists are gonna do that. They’re out there. Yeah. You know, feeling not scared, but they’re, they want to combine and come together.
Of course, of course. So it’s, it’s a wonderful, but then you look at medical and everybody’s like, Ooh, didn’t go so well. And so, and the Ds, it’s great, but it’s putting them in a way that they can make the choices for themselves. Mm. It’s how do I. Take away all those hard things like marketing and mm-hmm.
You know, payroll, all those things. So they focus just on the patient. Mm-hmm. And I really feel the dentists are ready for that. Yeah. But we’re still gotta disconnect is how is retirement, how can you transition bringing in new dentists? Because most dental students, you say DSO and they’re like, yeah, oh, I don’t want to do that.
Yeah. But they have no choice. Yeah. And so it’s really making a shift of, hey, this is a community where we join, but it, it gives you a different. Plan and an exit. So, you know, we’re still working on things and the profession’s gonna change though, of course, because it was stacking just what we call ebitda.
It was like spring ’em in, but you actually have to make a profit. Of course. Yeah. And so it’s adding modalities, eastern medicine, western medicine together. Interesting. Right. Interesting things that we can bring in that heal. I mean, we could draw blood, you know, we can do things that we’re actually a doctor.
Yeah. So we do it within our limits. But the patient base is there. Wow. Right. We can market to more and there’s volume as well. Oh, totally. Yeah. Like when you think about the volume of a dental practice versus maybe some of the other things. Totally. I mean, we have 4,000 dental PR patients in our are reactivating.
Wow. And then really cool modalities like stem cell therapy. Mm-hmm. Cutting edge things. There’s. Red light, you know, there’s, there’s, oh, how cool would that be To be able to go to the dental office? Yeah. And to be able to, to handle some of the other things that you were even considering. Totally. You know, especially like when I think about, it hasn’t been this way recently, but when I think about growing up having the same dentist for, I don’t know, my entire youth to, yeah.
Let’s say mid-teen to getting to college years, same dentist. Yeah. So if I would’ve had that opportunity to Yeah. Oh, you would have a, a further like relationship there. That’s somebody that’s trust us so new. Well, you trust them and we’re Yeah. In technology, we’re, we’re on the, we we’re very cutting edge.
Yeah. You know, the things in diagnosis though, we just need the exposure. So if we can remove the things that take up our time, like. You know, management payroll. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Make it leading the team. Yeah. If we can remove that through AI software that now the phones are answered. Yep. The recall’s done.
Now it’s the, the treatment, Hey, it’s time to come back to the follow up. Yeah. And then the team can focus on the customer experience. Mm-hmm. And then the introduction. So it’s really bringing nurse practitioners bring them together. Yep. Right. Snore, sleep apnea. Mm-hmm. It’s so clunky right now. Well. You go to a bill to insurance?
Well, it’s no dental insurance coverage. Yeah, medical does. Mm-hmm. But when I talk to ’em, they’re like, well, you’re not a, you need a physician, you know? Now I’m like, come on. We’re the ones that see ’em the most. Yeah. But then it’s really going into a new era. Dentist is a very scary word. Mm-hmm. Everybody every day.
No, no offense. COR to marketing. Hollywood. Hollywood did it to you. Totally. Hollywood did it to you. No, that’s Hollywood. Right? I’m not even gonna bring up all the series. It was Hollywood. The, the literal, you know, little Shop of Horrors and, and, and the original, like, now the technology’s changed. But if you look at the old way back when, like drills and things like that.
Yeah, there was a little bit of noise in there like that. Yeah. Yeah. So it, it’s holistic Dentistry is great too, but we’ve got a merge, I mean, gently bring in. Yeah. And I’ve got some, I mean, I just know it’ll work. So the last part of it is probably the last eight months. I’m like, source, God brought this, put it in my head and I’m like, let’s get it out.
Yeah. And so I’m excited to go share. And the relationships I have, people are like, do you know how really to connect with people? I’m like, well, I had to do four or five in an hour. Yeah. You know? And if you don’t connect with a person really fast, a new patient especially, they’re coming in pretty much saying, I hate the dentist.
Yeah, you’re already up against that. Mm-hmm. So it’s really connecting and, and calming them, but it’s the whole team that does it. And so, you know, it’s exciting times and with ai, things where you can incorporate and things that really. Heal besides, you know, just root canal therapy. Yeah, yeah. You know, that’s just one portion.
You know, so we’re gonna get there, you know, may take a thousand years, but I’m gonna live that long, so we might as well try, man. We’re at the Longevity Conference. Let’s, with, lets shout out to our sponsored Longevity Shopping. Let’s com You go there. I’ll tell you though, I’m not gonna say my opening line.
Let me make some claims today. No, I’m just, yeah. We, we can’t say Sure. And things like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, Corbin, I’m telling you, there’s been a lot of. Fun and shout out to all the dentists and the Corbin and the whole family there. Everybody’s like doing, I love it. That’s amazing. Well, I, you know, I’m not a dentist anymore.
I’m a healer. Yeah, yeah. But those, our dentists we’re getting there. They’re my buddies. That’s awesome. I gotta do whatever I can to, of course. Hey, let’s go on vacation, right? Let’s. You know, to, to finish up, you know, when you look at dentists, they’re like, number one for suicide. Number two for with, it’s really the stress and anxiety and pulling that away.
Were healers. Yeah. Right. It’s helping the people heal and then help them get out to the community where they need to go, you know, specialties and things like that. Yeah. So anyways, I’m working on it. Amazing. Last thing I want you to do, Corbin, look into the camera and how can people follow up? How can they learn more?
Well, so the best way you can learn more is one, do your own investigation. Do your own research. Mm-hmm. But you can follow us and find [email protected] dentrix.com. And I’m Dr. Corbin Matthews. And actually, I’m a new quantum healer, so, you know, call me up and. And you’ll find my avatar and I’ll answer any questions you want.
Fantastic. And for everybody watching, just so you know we’ll definitely put those links in the show notes so you can just click on the links and head right on over. And speaking to the audience. If this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button.
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