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    Special Office Manager Section

    Sept. 20, 2019
    This year, Dental Economics is bringing you articles for sharing with your office manager.
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    3 steps to avoid the dreaded dental commoditization

    Sept. 20, 2019
    Commoditization is becoming a bigger and bigger threat to orthodontics—and to the dental and health-care industries as a whole.
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    New Dentists

    Practice ownership: The sword to slay student loans

    Many graduates are looking for guaranteed income to give them peace of mind in paying off their loans.
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    Why is the business side of dentistry so much less fun?

    Why is running a dental practice so much harder than doing dentistry? Why is it more fun to prep three crowns than to do one job interview?
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    Multi-Practice Growth

    Life with an invisible dental support organization partner

    Thousands of dental practices across the country—ones of all specialties—have quietly partnered with hundreds of IDSOs. Some of these practices are probably near you.

    More content from Volume 109, Issue 9

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    Impression Materials

    To scan or not to scan

    Sept. 13, 2019
    Dr. Laura Picano says, “Having both digital and traditional impression techniques to use at our discretion is truly a luxury, but the real question is knowing when to use which...
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    Impression Materials

    Overcoming the fiscal drain of repeating final impressions

    Sept. 13, 2019
    Dr. Foroud Hakim says he uses a variety of impression techniques “based on the specific clinical situation and compounding challenges.” He presents three clinical cases.
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    Restorative Dentistry

    Which crown goes where?

    Will zirconia continue to dominate indirect restorative dentistry? Dr. Gordon Christensen offers his advice about the current types of zirconia and the new crown materials on ...
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    The problem with most dentists’ exit strategies is that they don’t exist

    Sept. 13, 2019
    When you are ready to turn over the keys to your practice, Dr. Chris Salierno says there are more paths that lie ahead than there were before, and the mistake is to take one of...
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    Transitions Roundtable

    Sept. 7, 2019
    We ask two experts the same question on a complex issue.
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    Smooth succession planning for dentists

    It takes years of hard work and unwavering dedication to build a successful dental practice. But no matter how rewarding the practice is, no one wants to work forever, and eventually...
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    Strategically assessing practice exit and entry choices: Part one

    Sept. 7, 2019
    Planning your practice exit and entry choice is crucial if you want to operate your practice your way throughout your career.
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    Multi-Practice Growth

    Economically and clinically leveraging implantology in your practice or DDSO: Part 4 of 6

    Sept. 6, 2019
    As DSOs continue to change the entire dental market, enterprising dentists are taking advantage of the current market conditions and adding multiple streams of income to their...
    Figure 1: Intraoral scanners, especially ones with software that automatically adds bases to the digital impression, help with so much more than clear aligners.
    Diagnostic Imaging and CBCT

    Outdated reasons for modern technology

    Duncan Y. Brown, DDS, MS, explains how digital dentistry’s technology has progressed, but our ways of thinking about it haven’t quite caught up.
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    Science & Tech

    Pearls for Your Practice

    Joshua Austin, DDS, MAGD, reviews a high-translucency glass ionomer, a high-volume evacuation mirror, and a set of restorative strips.