September, 2021

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5 Keys to Unlock Your Leadership Potential for Your Private Dental Practice

Planet DDS

Dental schools do a far better job preparing dentists for the clinical aspect of running a private practice than they do the business side. In running a small private practice, you’re not only a dentist, but you’re also leading a team. Here are five keys to unlocking your full leadership potential for your private practice. We’ve all seen great leaders.

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Dangerous Oral Health TikTok Trends

Oral Health Group

TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms of our time, with over half a billion active monthly users worldwide. Many people turn to this social network to stay up to date on the latest trends, tips, and, … The post Dangerous Oral Health TikTok Trends appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Let’s Get Real: 5-Plus Ways to Inject Authenticity Into Your Practice and Attract Loyal Patients

Oral Health Group

“Authenticity,” as defined by Merriam-Webster, is about being “true to one’s personality, spirit, and character.” The daily onslaught of information has naturally led to consumers craving authenticity now more than ever before. Yet, by its very nature, marketing is not … The post Let’s Get Real: 5-Plus Ways to Inject Authenticity Into Your Practice and Attract Loyal Patients appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Your Weekly Dental Staff Meeting Outline

Delivering Wow

In addition to your daily morning huddles, scheduling a time to meet once a week will greatly benefit your practice and promote growth. But many practice owners skip this valuable time, thinking it’s just one more meeting or just wanting to take a break after a long week. Holding a weekly dental staff meeting can benefit your practice in many ways—and they don’t need to be very long either.

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Metal or Plastic Fillings?

Ask The Dentist

Fillings are very common procedures and while they are preventable, they still happen. So, if you are getting a filling done, should you go with metal or plastic as your material of choice? Today, Dr. B outlines these two materials and weighs up the pros and cons of each. Even though plastic is not good for us, the metal in our mouths is far worse. There are numerous side effects of metal fillings that Dr.

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Your Leadership Mettle is Being Tested!

Dental Peers

After an early summer that seemed so promising, signs of a 4th wave are leaving all of us wondering what is next. How will we end 2021 and how will we begin 2022? Let’s face it…business planning has likely never been more challenging than it is right now! The impact on dentistry has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we fared better than many businesses which had to remain in complete lockdown well beyond the first wave of Covid.

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New data shows how hiring crisis has grown in dental industry

Dentistry Gone Digital

By Kevin Henry. Some new numbers from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute (HPI) are shining a light on just how much the hiring crisis in dentistry has grown since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to HPI data , the percentage of owner dentists who are looking for a dental hygienist for their practice has grown from 24 percent in October of 2020 to 32 percent of August of 2021.

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180° Shift: How to Check if You Are Up to Date With Dental Trends?

Oral Health Group

In this ever-changing world, keeping abreast of the latest technological trends is no small feat. As dentists, we have to find innovative ways to improve patient flow and revenue while juggling our time between patient care, practice management, and continued … The post 180° Shift: How To Check If You Are Up To Date With Dental Trends?

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Low-Cost Dental Marketing Strategies for New Practices

Delivering Wow

How much money are you spending on marketing for your practice? You don’t have to spend as much as you might think to grow your practice. You can connect with your community and it doesn’t have to be a hefty cost. The goal is to have your patients rave about what you’re known for. This allows your ideal patients to learn about you. You also want to get to a place where other local businesses in your community are referring patients to you.

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Is It Sinus Pain?

Ask The Dentist

This week’s listener question concerns the relationship between sinus infections and tooth pain. Our skulls can often be compared to a laptop, not just because of its processing power, but also because it has so many intricate parts compressed inside a small space. For this reason, it can often be difficult to differentiate between sinus pain and tooth pain.

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Dental Billing Outsourcing & Benefits: A Walkthrough

Carestack

The Bigger Picture. Challenges in insurance payments largely occur between insurance carriers and dental practices. While a practice seeks to collect payments from carriers, insurance companies reject claims that don’t fall within their parameters of acceptance and this happens often. . Add the complexity of claims processing to that, and we can see an average practice forfeiting around 9% of its yearly production to uncollected insurance revenue.

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Dental Practices Need to Raise Fees To Keep Up With Inflation

David Schwab & Associates, Inc.

The Consumer Price Index went up 5.4% in July, the largest jump in 13 years. In addition, according to Moody’s Analytics, the U.S. is experiencing “the strongest wage growth in a quarter century.” Inflation is overhead on steroids. Dental staff salaries and benefits are the largest overhead line items in dental practices. It’s time to analyze the numbers in your dental practice and raise fees.

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CityMD Co-founders Change the Way People Experience Dentistry with dntl bar Startup, Providing Enjoyable, Patient-First Care in New York City

Dental News and Technology

NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gone are the days of booking a dentist appointment months in advance and dreading the impersonal and often painful experience that comes with laying in a dental chair as someone pokes and prods your mouth. dntl bar —New York City's most enjoyable and convenient dental practice from the team behind CityMD, the Northeast's largest urgent care provider—puts patients at the center of its service at its three Manhattan locations, offering quality care and same

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The ABC’s of Marketing to Gen Z

Oral Health Group

Interested in contributing to Oral Health Group’s blog? Email marley@newcom.ca for more information! The post The ABC’s of Marketing to Gen Z appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Training Dental Teams How to Schedule Patients

Delivering Wow

As practices open back up from pandemic shutdowns, scheduling patients is becoming more of a challenge. We have to consider that we want to practice social distancing inside of our practices. We have production targets and financial obligations. And, of course, we need to safely care for patients. As you begin to have more demand on your schedule, these challenges will become tougher to overcome.

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How Does Oral Microbiome Affect Gum Health?

Ask The Dentist

One of the most flattering things is knowing that there are fellow functional dentists who listen to the show. Today’s question is from an aspiring functional dentist, and Dr. B dives into the oral microbiome. We hear about an article published in the Journal of Dentistry that looked at the plaque pH of caries-free versus caries-active individuals.

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The new dentist’s job and the learning curve

Dentistry Gone Digital

By Bruce Bryen, CPA, CVA. After the search is over and the new job has begun, it is time to make sure that learning is occurring with a timeline that is acceptable to both the dentist who was hired and to the owner who is hopefully mentoring the new associate. The skill sets that were learned in dental school will, of course, be very important to the new associate and are necessary for the task at hand.

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Every gesture helps: Discussing mental health with patients

ASDA Blog

Eaten up with guilt, shame and fear, I’ll never forget the young teenaged patient who nervously answered “yes” when, while filling out her medical history, I asked if she had any eating disorders. I had been nervously anticipating the day I’d encounter a patient who would respond affirmatively to this question because I’d been in her situation before. .

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HealthTech Startup bttn. Adds PlastCareUSA to Burgeoning Supplier Ecosystem

Dental News and Technology

PlastCare Offers FDA Approved Dental Supplies on bttn. Platform SEATTLE, Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- bttn., a HealthTech startup providing a B2B e-commerce platform for purchasing medical supplies, today announced a massive expansion to its product catalog with the addition of 93 PlastCare USA products for dental practitioners. bttn. has seen a dramatic increase in the number of dental practices utilizing its medical supply platform in recent months.

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5 Challenges Dentists May Face During Their Career

Oral Health Group

Dentistry is a very rewarding profession, but it does have challenges. A lot of the challenges you will face in your career will be unique to your practice and patients – but there are some common themes. The more aware … The post 5 Challenges Dentists May Face During Their Career appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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3 Systems You NEED to Put in Place to Grow Your Dental Practice

Delivering Wow

It can be way too easy to get stuck in your ways of doing things around the office, even if it isn’t necessarily the best, most effective, and productive way. But when things in your practice become stagnant, so does growth.

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TikTok Users Promote Questionable DIY Oral Health Treatments

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

Popular app TikTok has become a favorite vehicle for trendsetters, whose short, homemade videos on pretty much anything—including challenges, pop culture, and life hacks—are downloaded by billions across the globe. Unfortunately, not all of the information shared on TikTok is correct, beneficial, or even safe. . TikTok, launched in the United States in 2017, has picked up steam ever since.

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3 Reasons Why the Dental Hiring Crisis May Soon Subside

Dentistry Gone Digital

For so many dental practices across the country, trying to find, hire, and keep team members and associate dentists has been a challenge. However, could we finally be turning the corner in the quest to fill those open positions?

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Achieve better overall wellness

ASDA Blog

With grant funding from Crest + Oral-B, the ADA has spent the last year developing a suite of wellness programs for dentists and their teams. Explore these programs and more that support your financial wellness, your day-to-day clinic work and your overall self-care. Financial wellness. A special issue of Dental Practice Success offers Financial Foundations for the New Dentist to support navigating the financial journey from dental school to career.

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Why You Need to Tell Congress "No" to a Dental Benefit in Medicare Part B

Dental News and Technology

Watch this video so you can see what you need to do to help.

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Everything About Email Marketing for Dentists

Oral Health Group

Today, businesses that invest in marketing are thirteen times more likely to see a positive return on investment. Internet marketing is no less important for business growth because almost everyone now searches for and purchases services and products on their … The post Everything About Email Marketing for Dentists appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Teaching Your Dental Staff How to Get Your Patients to Come Back

Delivering Wow

Working at a dental practice entails a lot, so we often stray from focusing on ensuring our patients keep coming back. This can be the mistake that prevents your practice from growing and reaching its full potential. When patients are not making their recall visits, setting treatment plans, or scheduling their next appointments, there’s a serious issue within your practice.

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ADHA Joins Call for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Among Oral Health Professionals

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

While the American Dental Association stopped short of supporting a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for oral health professionals, a coalition from 57 organizations, including the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA), signed a joint statement in support of such a requirement. The statement includes this call to action, “We call for all governmental executive, regulatory, and legislative entities to mandate that all oral health care workers, including oral health care students and residents, b

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Does Your Dental Practice Have the Right Phone System?

YapiApp

Provide Exceptional Patient Service with the Right Phone System in Place. Don’t let important things go unnoticed. Add more automation to your phone system. Did you know that 48% of patients still prefer to book their appointments over the phone? Even as patient demand for digital and online interactions continue to accelerate, the phone still holds a prominent place amid day-to-day interactions at the dental office.

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Starting a writing club during the pandemic

ASDA Blog

Ever since my undergraduate years at NYU, writing has always been a passion of mine. I wrote for news site Odyssey Online and had the opportunity to interview NYU students, singer Luke Wade and even ask a question to Sarah Jessica Parker. I loved the concept of journalism and writing because of how often I got to meet new people and write about their stories.

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How Video Marketing May Help You Gain More Dental Patients

The Big Brush

Video marketing is an increasingly popular tool for content aimed at growing businesses, dental and medical practices included. Why? Video marketing helps your practice to attract more patients, similarly to written blogs and social media posts. In addition, this trending medium may feature some important extra benefits you may not get with written marketing.

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Your Leadership Mettle is Being Tested!

Oral Health Group

After an early summer that seemed so promising, signs of a 4th wave are leaving all of us wondering what is next. How will we end 2021 and how will we begin 2022? Let’s face it…business planning has likely never … The post Your Leadership Mettle is Being Tested! appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Help for Your Popping Jaw

Gilreath Dental

Is your jaw popping or clicking every time you yawn or take a big bite? You may need treatment for TMJ disorder, also known as TMD. In many cases, ignoring jaw joint symptoms can lead to more disruptive issues, such as difficulty opening and closing the mouth, tension headaches, ear pain, facial pain and more.… The post Help for Your Popping Jaw appeared first on Gilreath Family Dentistry.

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Study Reports Half of Pediatric Opioid Prescriptions Are ‘High Risk’

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

Children and young adults who experience pain from routine dental care or oral surgery are frequently exposed to unsafe opioid prescriptions, according to a study led by University of Michigan researchers. Appearing in Pediatrics , the paper, “Opioid Prescribing to U.S. Children and Young Adults in 2019,” is based on data from the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database.

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Harnessing the Power of Eaglesoft to Fuel Practice Growth

Off the Cusp

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. Share. Tweet. Share. Practices learn the basics of Eaglesoft by having certified Software Technology Advisors review various aspects of the practice management, clinical and imaging modules. Once the team has correctly used and understands the what or why something is done within the software, more advanced pieces of Eaglesoft can be introduced.

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Questions You Should Be Asking Your Child’s Pediatric Dentist

Polkadot Dental

As a part of your child’s pediatric dental check-up appointment, your kids dentist will spend some time discussing their oral healthcare with you and your child. They will take this consultation time to relay information to the parent or guardian about everything that requires treatment and talk about anything that caught their attention during the appointment.

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4 Variables that Affect Disability Income Insurance Premiums for Dentists

The Big Brush

Disability income insurance may be a way for dentists and other skilled professionals to help replace wages lost when an injury or illness affects their ability to earn an income. When or if the unexpected happens and you can’t work for an extended period of time, disability income insurance benefits may replace a percentage of your income so you can focus on healing.