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Ask Dr. Christensen
In this monthly feature, Dr. Gordon Christensen addresses the most frequently asked questions from Dental Economics® readers.
Doctors Building Wealth
Q I’m 36 and single with $50,000 saved. My advisor says I need to save more for retirement than my current $15,000 a year.
Flourishing in Changing Times
As the boomer dentist approaches retirement, MAJOR DECISIONS LOOM. Transition is the buzz word.
Pearls for your Practice
FiltEars™– The best new product I saw at the recent Greater New York Dental Meeting will save your hearing! We all joke about our hearing loss stemming from the noises associated with dentistry, but nobody seems to do anything about it; dentists constantly tell me they have a partial hearing loss because of high-speed handpiece noise, but everyone seems to feel that it’s a price you pay for being a dentist.
Practice Transitions
Our organization has found that more dentists than ever are SELLING THEIR PRACTICES and moving on to an active retirement or a new vocation.
Features
Wanting to find a “Midwestern universal appeal,” Dr. Betsy Bakeman’s design ideas gave birth to an office that has a residential feel and is “a joy in which to practice.
by Dr.Joe Blaes, Editor
An Interview with Dr. Steve Ratcliff, Chairman of Education, The Pankey Institute
Within the first 10 minutes of speaking to the hundreds of dentists at each Oral Sedation Dentistry Seminar, I tell the story of how I came to be on stage presenting to thousands of dentists every year.
From the moment he began speaking, I was spellbound by Gary Zelesky. I first saw him during a meeting hosted by the American Academy of Dental Practice Administration.
Stop procrastinating and make the leap
Ever since the “Extreme Makeover” phenomenon, public awareness of cosmetic dentistry has skyrocketed.
For most folks, not a Christmas break goes by without their watching an interesting movie or DVD.
It is my pleasure to introduce the winner of the Dental Office Design Competition 2007 New Dentist Division, Dr.
While 98 percent of dentists hate the Yellow Pages, the other 2 percent quietly laugh all the way to the bank.
by Robert Gordon, DDS
A no cut, no sew, no fear laser alternative for the treatment of periodontitis
As a dentist who built, managed, and sold a multimillion-dollar dental practice, I am often asked “How did you do it?” and “What’s the magic formula?” Obviously, like any undertaking that results in a big payoff, it involved a complex set of plans and strategies that were implemented, followed, revised, and worked through over many years.
How could I have missed this? Is there really an amazing new marketing technique that will catapult my practice to the next level, without costing me an additional penny in overhead? Will patients actually line up outside my door, begging to get an appointment .
In a dental practice, dentists and staff members work together in close quarters, with a few exceptions.
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Editor's Note
The new year started out with a BANG for me!
Viewpoint
This Viewpoint is in response to the recent article, “Dr. Ross’ children’s crusade,” (December DE®, Page 110).
Columns
Breakthrough Financial Planning
As our company perseveres at getting better at HELPING CLIENTS CREATE WEALTH two questions drive me.
The Dalin Exchange
Dr. Dalin: In this issue of Dental Economics®, we are going to talk with Dr.
Dentistry with David
LASER DENTISTRY has been a hot topic professionally for more than a decade. Its inclusion in general practice is reaching past the innovator phase and well into early adopters of this technology, which has changed the face of how I clinically perform everyday dentistry.
The Endo File
I once heard LANCE ARMSTRONG speak about maximizing every variable to produce success: lowest bike weight, optimal nutrition and fitness, and more.
From the Laboratory
As we enter a NEW YEAR, I always like to look back and see what PRODUCT OR TECHNIQUES HAVE HELPED ME THE MOST in the previous calendar year.
Hygiene: Up Close
Is your HYGIENE DEPARTMENT playing a major role in the overall success of your practice? Why do some hygiene departments produce more than others? Do they see more patients? Do they perform more procedures? Do they work longer hours? Having spent the last 17 years traveling throughout the country consulting and lecturing, here are several key elements for creating excellence and profitability in hygiene.
Implant Dentistry
Now that DENTAL IMPLANTS are currently accepted as a basis for prosthetic support for a broad range of cases, legitimate queries have arisen vis-Ã -vis the role of generalists.
The Power Practice
When digital radiography became available in the United States in the 1990s, I MUST ADMIT I WASN’T COMPLETELY CONVINCED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY COULD REPLACE FILM.
Tips to Take You to the Top
So, you think you know what makes you HAPPY? The study of happiness has attracted researchers, economists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and students from all over the world.
Unleashing Your Potential
When our YOUNGEST GRANDDAUGHTER was four years old, Marlyn called her one day and asked, “Riley, what did you do today?” Her reply was, “I went to a birthday party for one of my friends.
Infection Control
The OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION considers personal protective equipment (PPE) to be specialized clothing or equipment worn by an employee for protection against a hazard, such as patient blood and other body fluids.
Murphy's Law
What do Mattel toys, some seafood, tires, pet food, lawn trimmers, remote control airplanes, tower fans, AND TOOTHPASTE HAVE IN COMMON? Well, first, they are all products imported into the United States from China.
Quality Care for Oral Cancer
By Barbara Boland, RDH, MBA
I’m not much of a historian, but I am a big fan of those cartoons on television called “FRACTURED FAIRY TALES.
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