If you purchased or built a dental office more than five years ago, you may well have one of those small rooms that used to house your old, temperamental, chemical-consuming, ...
You will learn what makes a dental office successful and profitable. The areas discussed in detail include; the importance of delivering high quality dentistry ...
Before we get to the title points of this column, let's start at the beginning. Social media is more important to practice marketing than many dentists care to acknowledge.
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has a number of clinical applications for different specialties -- and no one understands this more than Dr. David Little, a San Antonio-based...
In most offices, when the patient is scheduled for full-mouth charting, a cry rings out from the hygienist: "Who is available at 2 p.m. to help with charting? I'll take anyone...
One of the first things to accomplish after site visits and due diligence by the purchaser is to execute a Letter of Intent, which spells out the terms of the purchase and an ...
Human capital is every single person who works in your practice. Employees are most dentists' largest expense and require an enormous amount of your time and energy to manage ...
The majority of dental patients have a general idea of what services their dentist provides. Patients are learning what a periodontal exam, extraction, filling, and oral cancer...
I purchased a practice from a retiring dentist several months back. The practice is in a very good location, and I felt it had lots of potential to grow with some good marketing...
Smart dentists, young and old, automatically divert a certain percentage of their income into savings each month. The percentage should be determined by the wants and needs of...
In medicine and dentistry, there is no one joint position that is right for every patient. There is a broad range in which every joint can successfully be placed for comfort and...
his month is meant to be a reality check for the dentists who truly work hard to give their patients the best possible care, and then they find out that one of their proudest ...
A recently published article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA. 2013;310(23):2523-2532) is sure to attract considerable attention.
The laboratory in the dental office is an area often overlooked for infection-control protocols, yet there are many opportunities for cross-contamination and potential disease...
This month's cover story is about one of the winners of the 2013 Dental Office Design Competition, which is sponsored annually by Wells Fargo, Dental Economics, and the American...