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  • Volume 109, Issue 7

    • Volume 109, Issue 7

    Figure 1: Site No. 29 was extracted one year prior to the photo, resulting in severe ridge resorption and the need for ridge augmentation prior to dental implant treatment.
    Periodontics and Oral Surgery

    Bone grafting after tooth removal: Why, when, and what to use

    May 16, 2022
    Dr. Scott Froum discusses tooth extraction prevalence in the US and offers a decision matrix to clarify when bone grafting is needed and the best type of material for site preservation...
    Figure 1: Using the CS 9300 imaging system, multiple views are available with an extensive tools menu.
    Diagnostic Imaging and CBCT

    Back to basics: Rules of business for your practice

    Sept. 8, 2019
    These four truths have guided Dr. Ernest Cholakis in his successful dental practice.
    The Hygiene Department

    The new dental hygiene appointment

    Lou Graham, DDS
    July 1, 2019
    a successful hygiene practice must reflect the office’s overall mission statement. In our office, patients understand that we are driven by the latest diagnostics and preventative...
    Science & Tech

    The 2019 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award winners

    Chris Salierno, DDS
    July 1, 2019
    We are, no doubt, practicing dentistry during a technological revolution. It’s not easy keeping track of all of the devices, software, and materials on the market and then making...
    Practice

    Successfully parting ways with an employee

    July 1, 2019
    For most business owners, terminating an employee, regardless of the dentist’s relationship with the person, is never an easy thing to do. An incredibly successful doctor recently...

    More content from Volume 109, Issue 7

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    Oral Pathology

    Caries risk management in practice

    July 1, 2019
    Here’s how to implement a standard protocol for caries risk management in your dental practice.
    Campaign 1
    Marketing

    Dental marketing strategies that generated $10,000-plus and 50 new patients

    Joy Gendusa
    July 1, 2019
    These practices are proof that well-organized marketing campaigns will help practices gain new patients, keep those patients, and increase their bottom line. Here are three examples...
    Dr. Meru in the La Sal Mountains
    Macro

    DE’s Advisory Board member profile: Mike Meru, DDS, MS

    July 1, 2019
    Meet Mike Meru, DDS, MS, an orthodontist, snowboard mountaineer, and member of the Dental Economics Editorial Advisory Board.
    Restorative Dentistry

    Pearls for your Practice

    Joshua Austin, DDS, MAGD
    July 1, 2019
    Phasor composite warming system by Vista Dental Products“Set your Phasor to stun!” That was my first thought when unpacking the new Phasor composite warming system from Vista ...
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    Marketing

    Membership plans keep patients committed to your practice

    July 1, 2019
    It’s a big claim, but it’s true: Membership plan patients are loyal to your practice and will become your best patients.
    Figure 1: A preoperative photograph of occlusal caries in a left mandibular primary second molar
    Pediatric Dentistry

    The use of silver diamine fluoride for caries arrest in children

    July 1, 2019
    Jungyi Alexis Liu, DDS, MSKevin J. Donly, DDS, MSThere have been great strides in reducing the incidence of dental disease during the past seven decades. However, dental caries...
    Overhead and Profitability

    Increasing services and productivity

    Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, PhD, MSD
    July 1, 2019
    Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, PhD, MSD, explains how private-practice dentists can increase dental practice profitability.
    Figure 1: Lateral smile view
    Restorative Dentistry

    The effect of temporary cements in creating esthetic provisional restorations

    July 1, 2019
    Temporary cements can affect color shades of provisional restorative. Dr. Albert Ambriz presents a solution using TempoCem ID from DMG America.
    Patient Communication and Patient Financing

    Motivate a patient or make a sale?

    July 1, 2019
    If you’re trying to improve treatment plan acceptance by “selling dentistry,” you’re doing it wrong. Here’s why.
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    Practice Management Software

    How the cloud helped this practice survive the wildfires

    July 1, 2019
    When a wildfire struck in 2008, this dental practice was woefully unprepared. They moved to the cloud, and when wildfires struck recently in California, they did not panic. They...
    Practice

    Entity choice: Opportunities and traps

    July 1, 2019
    Which entity or hybrid entity is the right choice for your dental practice? There are several to choose from. Here is what you want to look for and consider when choosing the ...
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    Systems

    3 steps to documented compliance

    July 1, 2019
    Dr. Roy Shelburne found out the hard way what can happen when a dentist and dental practice does not meet all of the proper compliance standards. He shares what he learned so ...
    Figure 1: Comparison photo of a mother and daughter demonstrating facial aging.
    Science & Tech

    A new look at facial aging

    Louis Malcmacher, DDS, MAGD
    July 1, 2019
    Let’s take a new look at facial aging and what we, as dental professionals, can do to reverse it, improve and create proper lip and smile lines, and accomplish total dentofacial...
    The Hygiene Department

    The challenges of prevention

    Chris Salierno, DDS
    July 1, 2019
    A mentor of mine once said that dentistry is a noble profession because we work hard to put ourselves out of business. He was referring to our efforts to fluoridate drinking ...
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    Marketing

    The hidden costs of being an in-network dentist

    July 1, 2019
    This dentist believes it’s to a practice’s advantage not to participate in insurance plans. If a dentist chooses not to participate, there are steps that can be taken through ...
    Practice

    Transitions Roundtable

    July 1, 2019
    This dentist wants to make sure that he properly prepares to make the move to a multi-dentist and multi-specialist practice. What steps should he take?
    The reception area at the Pacific Dental Services Foundation Dentists for Special Needs clinic in Phoenix, Arizona
    Patient Communication and Patient Financing

    Making a difference in special needs dentistry

    July 1, 2019
    Jacob Dent, DDS, works with patients with special needs at the new Pacific Dental Services Foundation Dentists for Special Needs clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.
    Figure 1: A patient presented with tooth No. 21 fractured at the gumline. The tooth was traumatically extracted and walls were inspected for any bony defects.
    Implantology

    Economically and clinically leveraging implantology in your solo practice, DSO, or DDSO: Innovations in immediate implants

    July 1, 2019
    Advances in immediate implants are improving patient outcomes and presenting business opportunities dental practices—particularly dentist-owned dental service organizations (DDSOs...
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    Practice

    Your associate doctor: Benefit or bust?

    Jennifer Butler, MEd, BCC, DAIS
    July 1, 2019
    Bringing on an associate dentist is a big change for a practice and its owner. It’s important for the owner to be properly prepared for the transition, and also to be prepared...
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    Practice

    Mindset mastery = shifting from disease to ease: Set yourself free

    July 1, 2019
    Cristian Pavel, DDSDanielle Cascioli, DDSYou know that feeling when everything seems perfect, and you feel with 100% conviction that you’re exactly where you need to be? Think...