DENTISTRY ARTICLES
The goal of The Practice Solution Magazine is to provide practice owners with practice management information that will assist them in achieving success.
How You Can Monitor Productivity
Knowing how to monitor and measure productivity objectively is the underlying secret of success for any practice or business. No doctor would decide on a treatment plan without properly…
Practice Marketing: Internal and External
There are two channels or vectors for marketing your practice. The first is internal, the second is external. Internal deals with dissemination and promotion within your practice…
Office Manager Purpose
The Office Manager is a key staff member in any private practice. A well-trained, positive and experienced Office Manager is worth his or her weight in gold…
Putting New Employees on the Job
Practice owners bring on new employees for a variety of reasons. Often, when practices are undergoing expansion of production and income, they require increased staffing…
Tips for Hiring People During the Pandemic
The biggest issue practice owners have shared with us since the start of the pandemic has been the inability to hire new staff. Many offices that we’ve spoken to…
How to Guarantee a Satisfactory Retirement Fund
It is never too early in your career to start funding your retirement. You may only be one day out of school, but you should be thinking about and planning out a retirement fund. We have found from our surveys that…
10 Steps You Must Do Before Selling Your Practice
The factors that make your practice salable include a good management team, steady profits, patient/client loyalty, a solid reputation, predictable transferability and…
How To Keep Your Team On-Task Over The Holidays
The holiday season is here, and with it comes every distraction that could push your employees off-task. Candy, costumes, decorations, vacation…the list is endless.
In this article, we’ll share…
5 Biggest Mistakes Practice Owners & Managers Make In Handling Employees Over The Holidays
The holidays can be a fun and festive time in your practice, but they also bring a few HR headaches to watch out for.
Here are the most common mistakes to avoid this holiday season…
What is Your Responsibility to Your Staff?
Just as your staff has responsibilities to you and your practice, you likewise have several responsibilities to your practice and staff…
Did you hire the wrong person?
A recent survey conducted with practice owners across the US revealed that the number-one management problem they have is personnel issues. Among the issues mentioned by hundreds of owners surveyed were…
Vital Steps for Collecting Money Over the Phone
In any practice, Accounts Receivable exist. Whoever collects money in your organization needs to know that this particular job has a two-fold purpose…
Turn a 40+ hour week into a 30 hour week and stay profitable
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
The Responsibilities of Managers and Staff
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
Screening Applicants
Finding a new employee is a very time consuming process. To consolidate efforts and streamline the initial stage of the interview and selection process, have all of the applicants who meet the basic criteria…
How to Increase Your Collections
Every doctor has a different idea about what a good collection percentage is as well as how to collect money for services rendered.
Resolving Negativity in Your Office
Since dealing with staff bickering and personality conflicts can be a major source of stress in an office, knowing how to deal with it can be extremely useful. When you let employee situations linger too long…
How to Handle Confrontation With Your Staff
A very common confession I hear when I analyze practices is that the executive isn’t good with confrontation and thus lets things slide when they shouldn’t. I want to address this issue for a number of reasons:
Where is Your Net Profit?
Where is your net profit? Did you work hard all week just to earn less money? The bank balance should be going up, not down!
Presenting Treatment Plans – the Do’s and Don’ts
Proper treatment-plan presentation can boom your practice, give your patients the best quality of care and can give you the ability to demonstrate how much you care for your patients. It can also generate more referrals from happy patients and help the practice to grow to its fullest.
Discussing Payment: How to be Both Polite and Effective
You should always assume that a patient/client can afford the recommended treatment when discussing payment with him. Don’t be shy, embarrassed or apologetic about the cost of your services. This can give the appearance that the treatment isn’t worth the fee being charged…
14 Steps to Safeguard Your Practice From Embezzlement
More than likely, you’ve heard the horror story about a colleague whose trusted employee embezzled money from his/her practice. To preclude this from happening to you, there are steps that you could take to minimize the risk of embezzlement.
Tips to Minimize Cancellations and Improve Appointment Control
Cancellations and missed appointments are one of the biggest frustrations in any practice and result in lowered production and lost revenue.
How to increase efficiency, productivity and net profit in a private practice
There is an impression with healthcare practitioners everywhere that all a practice has to do to increase production is to increase the number of new patients. More new patients is often the universal solvent for an under-producing office.
Two Steps You Must Do Prior to a Successful Marketing Campaign
To craft a successful marketing campaign for your practice, you must first conduct some basic research that will start to identify what your marketing plan and promotional pieces will look like and the message they should deliver.
Leadership Attributes and Management Qualities
As a practice owner, you should be asking yourself the following questions objectively:
Am I a good leader?
Do I run from conflict?
Am I able to motivate my staff?
Is my office harmonious or is it filled with conflict?
Does my staff “own” their jobs, or do they just punch in and out?
Do I ever feel that my staff is “holding me hostage”?
Am I running my practice? …or is my practice running me?
What Are the Four Components of Great Service?
There are Four Components of Great Service. Great service to your patients/clients is one of the most important factors required to build a successful and thriving practice. Under the heading of great service, you will find the following key components…
Cutting Down Costs Vs. Increasing Production
Pretty much every owner wishes to increase their net income. Factually, there are only two ways to accomplish that…
A Functioning Office Manager
The primary function of the office manager is to accomplish the goals and purposes of the practice as determined by the owner of the practice. The OM should assist the owner in developing policies that forward the purpose of the business as a whole…
How to Properly Correct Employees in a Private Practice
It would be wonderful if employees never make mistakes and always do a perfect job. But we’re all human so what do you do when a staff member messes up and how do you correct him?
How to Structure a Bonus Plan in a Private Practice
It is very wise to have a bonus plan for staff in operation in your office. If you reward staff for increasing their production and the production of the practice, they will naturally want to continue to do that, and the whole staff will tend to operate much more as a team.
The Importance of Implementing Profitable Communication Systems
One of the key elements in running a successful practice is the actual communication level of the practice.
5 tips to deal with overwhelm in a private practice
With private practice ownership already a challenging environment, how do you cope with the sense of overwhelm?
Providing a Firm Foundation Through Written Office Policy
In order to function most effectively as a team, agreements must be known and adhered to for smooth, efficient coordination and cooperation. This is also known as “policy.” As long as people know what the rules of the activity are, and those guidelines are…
How to Deal with Canceled or Rescheduled Appointments
One of the most common problems doctors want help with is dealing with canceled or rescheduled appointments, you can control this.
12 Steps to Collect Past Due Accounts
Collecting on past due accounts is a function that the Accounts Manager will find herself/himself having to do. Any contact with a patient/client, even under these circumstances, should be…
ACHIEVING BETTER RETENTION AND PATIENT SATISFACTION
More than 88% of consumers today consider credible online reviews equal to a personal referral. Properly managing your online reviews is more important than ever.
The 6 Recovery Strategies for Dealing With the Pandemic
COVID-19 has changed the healthcare profession forever, with practice owners feeling exposed to threats within and outside the clinic. The good news is that, with the right strategies, you can fly past competitors whose slow response time is crippling their ability to deal with issues as they arise.
Recovery Strategies For Dealing With The Pandemic – Part II
More than 88% of consumers today consider credible online reviews equal to a personal referral. Properly managing your online reviews is more important than ever.
How Healthcare Marketing Has Changed During COVID
Those patients/clients who do not pay cash at the end of their appointment must be billed through the mail.
5 things you should be doing to get through the Covid 19 crisis
PPP: If you haven’t already applied for PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) do it now. This program allows you to receive 8 weeks worth of funding to go toward your payroll/rent/bills. At the end of the 8 weeks you can apply for loan forgiveness. As long...
Covid-19 and it’s economic impact on private practices
Hello, This is Ken DeRouchie, the editor of The Practice Solution Magazine. On March 11th, I decided that The Practice Solution Magazine needed to shift its focus to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is effecting private practice. This is still an ongoing research...
Dealing with a Problem Employee
I received an email from a doctor having a staff problem. I replied to her and thought this might benefit some other people out there. Please see our discussion below: Hi Ken, As an employer, how can you tell your employee to stop his/her: gum smacking, not to laugh...
How Do You Hold Employees Accountable For Their Positions?
Surveys show that workers are happiest when they are productive and are contributing to the success of the group in which they work. To boost morale, efficiency and longevity of workers, one must: understand the importance of one’s production, know exactly what one is...
Generating New Patients by Using Surveys
How do you market for new patients in a cost efficient and effective manner? Starting with internal marketing is always the best approach, as it produces the most cost effective return, which is of utmost importance in managing a practice. Surveys are one method of...
Optimize Your Marketing
In today’s economic climate a great deal can be said for the benefits of marketing effectively. There are many mediums for marketing a practice – referrals from existing patients/clients are normally the best and most cost effective means of getting new...
Get Your Promotion Organized: A Promotion and Marketing Calendar – Part 1
Have you ever noticed that you have all sorts of great marketing and promotional ideas that you just never seem to put into action? Do you realize during a staff meeting that those brilliant ideas that captured everyone’s attention and agreement in the previous...
Marketing and Promotion Ideas for Your Practice
In my nearly 23 years of delivering practice management training and consulting, I’ve found that of all of the marketing techniques available, properly asking for referrals is easily one of the most useful marketing and promotional ideas for your practice. There are...
Proper Case Presentation and Better Case Acceptance
We have found that doctors can lose thousands of dollars per month because they are unaware of some of the principles associated with proper case presentation and case acceptance. In addition, sometimes the best treatment planning and case presentation doesn’t result...
Recruiting New Employees
Who, what, when, where and how: It is a 100% certainty that with any practice you will need new employees at some point in time, either to replace employees who leave or to help the practice grow. Where do you find the type of people you want to work with, people that...
The Key to Effective Marketing: Surveys
Surveys can save you time and wasted effort. By properly utilizing surveys, you will not be shooting in the dark when you implement a new idea. You will not be left wondering why people are not coming back to your practice. You will know what your public needs and...
Public Relations and Social Responsibility
This article concerns the benefits of getting out of the office and getting actively involved in your community. Whether it’s sponsoring your local little league team, encouraging your area’s children’s museum to do an eye screening or “Celebration of Smiles”...
How to Set Reminders for Continual Services (Recall)
Whether you are using an automatic reminder system, or it is someone's job function to send out reminders; or a combination of both. The below information will be highly beneficial to increase your appointments scheduled, reactivating clients/patients and having them...
How The Practice Solution Works
Here is a video that we have put together explaining how The Practice Solution works and how wego about compiling practice management articles and resources for our readers.As you can see, everything that we do depends on the help and cooperation of practice owners...
Termination Series:
A Constructive Face-to-Face Termination
This article is a continuation of our termination series. To view the previous article, click here. This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a...
Termination Series:
Guidelines to Follow When Terminating
This article is a continuation of our termination series. To view the previous article, click here. This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a...
Termination Series:
Making the Decision. Should I Fire My Employee?
This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a constructive face-to-face termination. There are specific guidelines when terminating because all of...
The Underrated Business Card
Business cards don’t seem to be in vogue as of recently, however they are still a highly effective
Reactivating Patients: How to Get Them Back
If you were to calculate the value of each patient or client visit and multiply that by the number of patients or clients you have not seen for 6 months
How Valuable is that Employee?
Performance evaluation is viewed as a process to ensure a high quality of service
Marketing: Why are Surveys Important to Your Practice?
Are you as confident in your ability to get a steady flow of new patients into your practice as you are in your ability to provide high quality technical care? You should know that successful marketing has a technology that, when applied correctly, will get results...
How to take ownership of your Google+ and Yelp pages
How to take ownership of your Google+ and Yelp pages Over the past few months we’ve done several articles about consumer reviews and their importance. A question I often get asked has to do with claiming one’s business page in Google+ and Yelp. Many practice owners...
The Truth About Referral Marketing
The Truth About Referral Marketing In my nearly 23 years of delivering practice management training and consulting, I’ve found that of all of the marketing techniques available, properly asking for referrals is easily the most useful. There are several reasons for...
[ Video ] Your Google and Yelp Reviews
More than 88% of consumers today consider credible online reviews equal to a personal referral. Properly managing your online reviews is more important than ever.
Getting Your Staff on the Same Page
This article is a continuation of Critical Practice Foundations. If you haven’t done so yet, we recommend reading the first article to get a better context. The Staff Meeting One very important activity you, as the owner, should implement is a...
Critical Practice Foundations
Most doctors, when starting their practices, miss some of the basic actions that should be established prior to opening. An owner of a healthcare practice should always, as a first step, work out the following basics:
Real Office Policy Examples and Checklist
Below is a list of items that should be included in any basic office policy or policies: Patient Relations Sexual Harassment Orientation and Training Work Hours Fringe Benefits Solicitation Equal Opportunity Statement Terms of At-Will Employment...
Forming Office Policy
All doctors are extremely well trained in their profession. Unfortunately, very few doctors are trained in business or employee handbook policy creation and their appropriate implementation.
Internal and External Marketing
There are two areas in a practice that are targeted when marketing your practice. The first is internal; the second is external. “Internal” deals with dissemination and promotion within your practice and to already-established patients. It includes things such as:
Guest column: Coping With Conflict – Part Two
A Layperson’s guide to resolving conflict in the office By Daniel A. Bobrow, MBA President, American Dental Company Part two in a series of two articles In last issue’s article, we discussed models and tenets used to resolve conflict. In this part, I’ll go over the...
Case for Change in Dental Education Curricula
The American Dental Education Association’s (ADEA) Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI) was created to serve as a focal meeting place where dental educators and administrators, organized dentistry, and the licensure, accreditation, and...
Music, Physics, A Sailboat and Dentistry
Profile: Dr. David Matthews Practice: David R. Matthews Dental Group, LLC Location: Eugene, Oregon Music, Physics, A Sailboat and Dentistry A music teacher with a penchant for physics, Dr. Dave Matthews changed careers after ten years of teaching music to become a...
Saliva as a Diagnostic Tool for Periodontal Disease
A University of Kentucky research study could help change the diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease. An article, “Salivary Biomarkers of Existing Periodontal Disease,” discusses the importance of saliva and its potential to be a diagnostic tool. The study was...
Claims Against Dental Amalgam Lack Scientific Evidence
PANEL REPORT FINDS HEALTH CLAIMS AGAINST DENTAL AMALGAM LACK SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE The American Dental Association recently announced that a review of seven years worth of scientific studies concludes there is insufficient evidence “of a link between dental mercury and...
Guidelines Change for Preventive Antibiotics
Guidelines Change for Preventive Antibiotics Before Dental Work According to new guidelines, far fewer people need preventive antibiotics before dental procedures than previously recommended, according to a recent issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource. The use of...
When the Doctor is Away
How you keep the office running If you as the doctor/owner are planning to be away from the office – even for a day or two – the staff has some free time, too. The doctor/owner or office manager can make lists of things that need to be done. Make sure that if your...
Are Lasers the Wave-Light of the Future?
New applications and lower prices might allow lasers to replace traditional dental tools CHICAGO (Academy of General Dentistry) -Would you spend more than $40,000 on equipment that would allow you to complete oral surgeries with virtually no pain or blood and a vastly...
Music, Physics, A Sailboat and Dentistry
Profile: Dr. David Matthews Practice: David R. Matthews Dental Group, LLC Location: Eugene, Oregon Music, Physics, A Sailboat and Dentistry A music teacher with a penchant for physics, Dr. Dave Matthews changed careers after ten years of teaching music to become a...
Don’t Let Your Mouth Pollute Your Clean Heart
Levels of Bacteria in Plaque Beneath the Gum Line May Increase Risk for Heart Attacks CHICAGO (American Academy of Periodontology) -Researchers have found evidence that the amount of bacteria in subgingival plaques, the deep plaques in periodontal pockets and around...
Dental Center Takes a 900-Mile Detour for Disaster Relief
American Dental Association and Henry Schein Send ‘Tomorrow’s Dental Office – Today!’ to Help Mississippi Gulf Coast Residents; State-of-the-Art Dental Treatment Center Takes a 900-Mile Detour for Disaster Relief Answering the request of the Mississippi Department of...
Guest Column: Infection control By Barry Levy, DDS
In the last issue of Solutions, I discussed the problems with “minimum standards” of infection control and how the dental practice act in California mandated “sterile gloves” for surgical procedures that involve soft tissue or bone. This is a situation that applies to...
The Benefits of Regular Practice Newsletters
Marketing is a vital part of the management of any business, whether a health care practice or any business in general. Implementing successful marketing actions that help increase the number of new patients/clients as well as help facilitate the retention of existing...
Identifying Patients at Risk for Fatal Cardiovascular Event
A new study indicates dentists can play a potentially life-saving role in health care by identifying patients at risk of fatal heart attacks and referring them to physicians for further evaluation. Published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dental...
Letter to the Editor – Sleep Medicine
Letter to the Editor By David E Lawler, DDS, D. ABDSM Bloomington, IN Hello, This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for an article in The Practice Solution Magazine by one of your research staff. As a result of this interview, I want to encourage you to...
Cannabis Indicated as Possible Risk for Gum Disease
Cannabis Indicated as Possible Risk for Gum Disease in Young People Newswise – Young people who are heavy smokers of cannabis may be putting themselves at significant risk for periodontal disease, according to new research. The study, published in the Feb. 6 issue of...
Researchers Use A Patient’s Own Bone To Accelerate Orthodontics
Newswise – Researchers at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry say they have improved upon a surgical procedure developed by periodontist Tom Wilcko that rapidly straightens teeth, delivering a healthy bite and attractive smile in months instead...
Economic Fears Can Affect Dental Care
Newswise – Regular checkups and cleaning can save money in the end by heading off problems early. Nevertheless, when times get tough and people start losing their jobs, preventive dental care can be one of the first things to go. However, the correlation between...
Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders
Letter to the Editor By David E Lawler, DDS, D. ABDSM Bloomington, IN Hello, This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for an article in The Practice Solution Magazine by one of your research staff. As a result of this interview, I want to encourage you to...
Search Engine Marketing for Practices
(Article 2 of 4 Part Series) By Lisa Thayer, GoldfishNetwork.com “Spiders and crawlers and bots…oh my!” – Two views of the same website One of the most challenging aspects of optimizing a website is that there are two audiences to appeal to: 1) standard website users...
Scientists Discover How Maternal Smoking
Can Cause Cleft Lip and Palate Scientists supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, report that women who smoke during pregnancy and carry a fetus whose DNA lacks both copies of a gene...
Periodontal Diseases Are Blind to Age
Two studies suggest that periodontal diseases should be a concern to women of all ages Two studies in a recent issue of the Journal of Periodontology (JOP) suggest that periodontal diseases are a threat to women of all ages due to hormonal fluctuations that occur at...
Root Canals Just as Effective as Dental Implants
Dentists Emphasize Saving Natural Teeth and Patient-Specific Considerations For patients torn between the best way to treat a compromised tooth, the choice just got clearer. A recent systematic review comparing two of the most common treatment options – root canals...
THE GOVERNMENT HELPS OUT ON NEW EQUIPMENT PURCHASES
Taking Advantage of the IRS Section 179 Write-Off Written by Brad Beck, Vice President Bank of America Practice Solutions What did you think the chances were that a banker would not start anything that is printed on paper without a disclaimer? Well if you took the...
Extending Credit
Tips to Control Your Accounts Receivable Following are some guidelines to assist you in determining to whom you wish to extend credit and how to go about collecting on those accounts. * Assess the patient/client’s credit worthiness before extending any sort of credit....
Employers Pay High Price for Vision Disorders
Uncorrected Vision Problems Contribute to Decreased Employee Performance Vision disorders carry a hefty price tag for employers and result in a marked decrease in productivity costing businesses an estimated $8 billion annually, according to a new report released by...
Cracking the Root of Tooth Strength
After years of biting and chewing, how are human teeth able to remain intact and functional? A team of researchers from The George Washington University and other international scholars have discovered several features in enamel—the outermost tooth tissue—that...
Acupuncture Eases Radiation-Induced Dry Mouth in Cancer Patients
Twice weekly acupuncture treatments relieve debilitating symptoms of xerostomia – severe dry mouth – among patients treated with radiation for head and neck cancer, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the current online...
Baltimore Dental Study Offers Model Program to Reduce Tooth Decay in Urban Children
University of Maryland, Baltimore study shows early preventive dental care to toddlers may significantly reduce cavities and cavity-causing bacteria levels in children. © 2009 Newswise — A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore recommends...
Guest Column: The Business Sense of Dentistry
Profile of Dr. Vincent Dolce, DMD By Charles Friedman As a National Geographic documentary producer, I have had the opportunity to see the world, weave between cultures, and meet many extraordinary individuals. Currently I am working on a documentary for the Florida...
Device screens patients in minutes for periodontal disease
A portable saliva test device developed by a University of Michigan School of Dentistry professor could tell patients in just minutes if they have periodontal disease, a hefty improvement over current methods which require hours of analysis at an off-site lab. The...
Half of General Dentists Placing Dental Implants
The Wealthy Dentist Survey Results Half of general dentists offer their patients surgical dental implants, according to a survey conducted by The Wealthy Dentist. On the other hand, fully four out of five specialists place implants. Dental implants are an essential...
Center For Oral Biology Wins Major Training Grant Renewal
The Center for Oral Biology within the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has been awarded $4 million to expand its renowned training program for oral biologists and dentist-scientists. New cross-disciplinary training programs will focus on the...
Surgeon Helps Volunteer Group Reach 20-year Milestone
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Helps Volunteer Group Reach 20-year Milestone When oral and maxillofacial surgeon Louis K. Rafetto, DMD, traveled to Peru to donate his services last February, he became the 5,000th volunteer placement for Health Volunteers Overseas...
Steroid Abuse Harms Gingival Tissues
Researchers found that using anabolic androgenic steroid is associated with gingival enlargement and may increase gingival index scores Researchers found that prolonged use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) is closely associated with significant levels of gingival...
Fluoridated beverage consumption and dental fluorosis:
There’s a connection Fluoride is a mineral that protects against dental cavities; however, too much fluoride during tooth formation can lead to dental fluorosis, which is usually characterized by white streaks or splotches on the teeth. Fluoride is naturally present...
Profile: Dr. Nancy Summer Lerch, DDS
Dentistry and Women’s Advocacy Practice: Center for Esthetic Dentistry Location: New Haven, Connecticut Dr. Nancy Summer Lerch is an evangelist for women in dentistry. “Being a woman in dentistry is a very great asset. Like any asset it’s something to be shared. It’s...
Guest column: Dental Legal Issues
Is Fraud like Beauty, in the eye of the beholder? By Dr. Barry Levy, DDS In a case filed last year, a dentist has been criminally charged with fraud, because the dentist diagnosed decay in two teeth, using clinical skills and a DIAGNOdent (a fluorescent laser method...
Guest column: Coping With Conflict
A Layperson’s guide to resolving conflict in the office By Daniel A. Bobrow, MBA President, American Dental Company Part one in a series of two articles Conflict is inevitable. As long as people possess the capacity for independent thought, there will be differences...
OHSU discovers potential for treating craniofacial pain
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) School of Dentistry have uncovered an interaction between two proteins in the nerve cells that carry pain information from the head and neck to the brain. The finding could play a significant role in the...
AADR Testifies in Support of Dental Amalgam at FDA Hearing
On behalf of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), AADR member Steve London, D.D.S., Ph.D., testified in support of the use of dental amalgam as a restorative material at the Food and Drug...
AGD Launches Dry Mouth Awareness Effort
Some Medication Warning Labels Are Tough to Swallow More than 32 million adults are at risk of dry mouth, or xerostomia, caused mainly by prescription and over-the-counter drug products. Dry mouth can lead to extensive decay, serious oral infections and make it...
Clinical Test for Saliva-based Oral Cancer Detection Ready
Oral cancer is the 6th most common cancer in men and the 14th most common cancer in women. In the US, oral cancer will be diagnosed in an estimated 30,000 Americans this year and will cause more than 8,000 deaths. The disease kills approximately one person every hour....
PROFILE: CRAIG SLACK, DDS
PRACTICE: CLINTONVILLE DENTAL LOCATION: CLINTONVILLE, OHIO How One Dentist Went From a Struggling New Practice to a Successful, Happy Life. “I spent seven months as an associate/slave and decided that was not how I was going to have a career in dentistry,” said Dr....
Displaced Dentists, Hurricane Katrina and Reciprocity
By Barry Levy, DDS When the dental profession retains provincial ideas about how the profession is to be run and fails to address problems that exist, the idea of reciprocity between states in America becomes an issue that may slowly gain traction, but hasn’t been...
Direct Reimbursement Plans: A trend waiting to happen
by Craig Beauchamp Direct Reimbursement Plans (DRP) may be the upcoming trend to provide for one’s dental care needs, while at the same time letting many dentists regain control of their profession and get the financial compensation they deserve for their work. The...
Getting New Patients: A Practice Management Mantra
Doctors all over the country and the world are still trying to figure out, “How can I get more new patients?” The quest for new patients or customers is not indigenous to the medical professions. Every business is looking to find more people to buy their wares or sell...
Guest Column: By Dr. Barry Levy DDS
DENTISTRY AT RISK: COMPLYING TO MINIMUM STANDARDS OF INFECTION CONTROL By: Dr. Barry Levy DDS If you are not aware of, or are not complying with minimum standards of infection control, you can be in for a rude awakening. While the below article addresses cases...
Preferred Provider? by Dr. Charles S. Horn, III, DDS
Some months back, we did an interview concerning practice management with Dr. Charles S. Horn. At the end of that interview, Dr. Horn told us about a letter he had written concerning working with insurance companies. He asked if we would like to look at it and...