Why Every Dental Practice Should Screen for Airway and Sleep Disorders We’re dealing with a health crisis hiding in plain sight. Did you know that your dental practice may be the only place equipped to catch it? Millions of Americans struggle with sleep-disordered breathing, but recent studies show that only 15% are ever screened. The […]
Digital Dentures, Why You Shouldn’t Forget The Fundamentals You’ve invested in the latest digital denture technology. Your lab now promises “revolutionary” results in a fraction of the time. Yet you’re finding that your digitally-designed dentures aren’t quite fitting as they should. The last thing you want is to field complaints from your patients about aesthetics […]
How to Hire Dental Staff & Retain Them Are you struggling to find and retain the right dental team members? Welcome to the struggle of the century. It can feel like you’re stuck in a constant cycle of hiring, training, and replacing staff. And that cycle can quickly go from frustrating to costly – especially […]
Due in part to interest created by popular television series promoting “the smile make-over”, as well as numerous magazine articles and advertisements about smile design, increased patient awareness of cosmetic dental procedures has significantly increased production revenues of dental practices. According to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, many patients today are willing to spend […]
With a down economy everyone is feeling the effects, including my practice. And while not losing patients, some people weren’t able to come in as regularly, leaving room for more patients. We thought about advertising, but that would be paying strangers to send us strangers and our thought was that we would rather have friends […]
If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? As our country’s leaders have told us repeatedly, we are in uncharted territory. Now, more than ever, it is essential to have a clear vision of who you are, where you’re going and how you want to get there. A […]
One of the more common errors that dentists make, which can have serious consequences in the long run, is believing that success is determined by the amount of money they make. In reality, financial security is certainly nice; however, it isn’t the only yardstick for measuring success. In fact, one of the principal tenets of complete […]
by Kimberly Daxon, DDS Whether you have an existing practice or you are purchasing a new practice, the choice to implement Complete Dentistry principles is life-changing. In the dental course, Functional Occlusion From TMJ to Smile Design, Dr. Dawson talks about the formula for a successful practice: Know how to solve your patients’ problems Develop […]
A football team huddles before every play. They get on the same page and hit the line playing their individual roles towards a common goal. Can you imagine if they did not do this? Or did it off the cuff or if the play did not have enough detail or omitted key data altogether? What […]
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