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Infection Control: How NOT to Get Sued … and a Whole Lot More

Dentistry Gone Digital

The last time patients cared this much about our infection control procedures was the early 1980s when the news of HIV went mainstream. COVID-19 translation? Your patients really care right now! So if you’re anything like me, and you want your practice to be on its A+ game, answer these three simple questions. .

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6 Ways to Ask Patients for Reviews

Oral Health Group

There is no need to convince that online reviews play a crucial role in businesses nowadays. Numbers speak for themselves: 85% of dental patients look at the opinions on the Internet and consider them an important factor while choosing a … The post 6 Ways to Ask Patients for Reviews appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Claims and Collections: Create a Process That Benefits the Practice and Patient

Off the Cusp

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. Share. Tweet. Share. In a world that seems to be constantly creating new challenges, one old nemesis remains the same: insurance reimbursement. Like all businesses, dental insurance is concerned with profit, which means maximizing income and minimizing payouts. Timely, painstaking claims submissions and management are therefore still critical when working with insurance companies to get the most money possible for the work done.

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Monitoring of Erosive Tooth Wear with Intraoral Scanners In vitro

Dental News and Technology

Caries Research Caries Res [link] Abstract Intraoral scanners (IOS) have been used to quantify tooth wear, but so far they have not been systematically validated for monitoring of tissue loss. The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate whether progression of tissue loss can be detected with an IOS and whether IOS values agree with those obtained with noncontacting profilometry (PRO) serving as a standard method.

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Lit leadership lessons: Embracing failure to adopt everyday innovation

Dentistry Gone Digital

By Amisha Singh, DDS. I recently re-read an article in the Harvard Business Review about how to incorporate “everyday innovation” into business to help reach consumers and decrease bottlenecks. It got me thinking about the concept of innovation and how unapproachable it felt, at times, as a dental practice owner. I was so busy with working in my practice that the concept of working on my practice felt overwhelming at times.

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Why Dentists Should Consider an Individual Pension Plan (IPP)

Oral Health Group

From greater savings to protection, an IPP offers more for Canada’s high-income professionals Most people are familiar with an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan). While an RRSP is ideal for many, an IPP offers unique advantages for dentists. The IPP … The post Why Dentists Should Consider an Individual Pension Plan (IPP) appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Practice Transition Psychology: Part 1

David Schwab & Associates, Inc.

Welcome to the first part of my three-part series on the psychology of practice transition. I’ll be talking about how to get an associate into a practice with the goal that they will buy the practice. Today, let’s discuss today the selling doctor’s concerns. If you’re the selling doctor, one of your big concerns is, “I don’t want to make a mistake.

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Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is Effective for Kids Ages 12 and Older

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

New data from Pfizer show that its COVID-19 vaccine is highly protective against infection with the novel coronavirus among children ages 12 to 15. The study of more than 2,200 subjects found zero cases of COVID-19 among those who received both shots of the Pfizer vaccination while there were 18 COVID-19 cases among the subjects who received a placebo.

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Do I Need To Straighten My Teeth Before Getting Veneers?

Healthy Smiles

As cosmetic dentists, the most frequently asked question that we come across is- “ Do I need to straighten my teeth before getting veneers ?” Several people who come to Healthy Smiles for a consultation with our dentists ask the question numerous times. This is an important question and the answer to it depends on how you want your smile to look like and what the outcome of the procedure would be.

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Road to recovery from addiction: The impact of dental care

ASDA Blog

In a 2015 study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, methamphetamine users were found to have higher rates of dental and periodontal disease, with evidence of much higher rates of rampant decay and tooth loss. As dental students, we have all seen patients or have at least heard of patients in the student clinic being referred to as having “meth mouth,” which is characterized as blackened, stained, broken, severely decayed or missing teeth.

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Do Radiographic Assessments of Periodontal Bone Loss Improve with Deep Learning Methods for Enhanced Image Resolution?

Dental News and Technology

Sensors 2021 , 21 (6), 2013; [link] (registering DOI) Received: 4 January 2021 / Revised: 5 March 2021 / Accepted: 9 March 2021 / Published: 12 March 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing and Imaging Technology in Dentistry ) View Full-Text Download PDF Browse Figures Citation Export Abstract Resolution plays an essential role in oral imaging for periodontal disease assessment.

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University at Buffalo Receives Grant for Mobile Dental Clinic

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine. The University at Buffalo (UB) School of Dental Medicine has received a $780,000 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to expand its S-Miles to Go dental program through the addition of a second mobile dental clinic. The new 40-foot-long dental van — a two-chair clinic outfitted with a state-of-the-art panoramic X-ray unit, sterilization center, wheelchair lift and electronic health record system — will meet the oral healthcare needs of

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Is Your Marketing Agency A Trusted Member Of Your Team…

Patient News

Or are they inadvertently hindering your growth? With so much activity in the M&A market, it is important to determine who is on your bus – meaning, are the people you work with aligned with your vision and positively contributing to the overall development of your organization? Or are they off the bus, meaning that they somehow negatively impact your.

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Fatherly I This is When You Should Expect to Start Playing T.

The Super Dentists

While the onset of developmental milestones varies from child to child, the age when baby teeth fall out is particularly broad. On average, kids’ teeth fall out at 6-years old. But some parents start. Read More. The post Fatherly I This is When You Should Expect to Start Playing T. appeared first on The Super Dentists.

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Analysis of the influence of the facial scanning method on the transfer accuracy of a maxillary digital scan to a 3D face scan for a virtual facebow technique: An in vitro study

Dental News and Technology

The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry Available online 12 March 2021 Abstract Statement of problem With the emergence of virtual articulators , virtual facebow techniques have been developed for mounting maxillary digital scans to virtual articulators. Different scanning methods can be used to obtain 3D face scans, but the influence that these methods have on the accuracy with which a maxillary digital scan is transferred to a 3D face scan is unknown.

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How specialties receive ADA recognition

ASDA Blog

The ADA started with seven recognized specialties and has only added five specialties in the past 160 years. Three of the specialties, dental anesthesiology, oral medicine and orofacial pain, were recognized in the last three years. Ever wonder why more specialties aren’t recognized? Why it took so long for these specialties to receive recognition? What recognition means for a dental specialty and dentistry as a whole?

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Keep the Operating Costs of Your Private Dental Practice Healthy

Planet DDS

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”. Benjamin Franklin’s wisdom has bold application for how you monitor the operating costs for your private dental practice. Overhead expenses can force you, on occasion, to run a “tight ship.” And yet doing so can have an impact on employee salaries, benefits, investments in marketing, facility, and technology upgrades, and more.

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New Research Shows SARS-CoV-2 Infects Cells in the Oral Cavity

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

A group of researchers has discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells in the mouth, making the oral cavity a possible transmitter of the viral infection to other parts of the body. Published in the journal Nature Medicine on March 25, the research suggests that this fact may be the reason why COVID-19 has such a wide range of symptoms, affecting myriad parts of the body.

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A systematic review of population-based gingival health studies among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Dental News and Technology

The Saudi Dental Journal Available online 14 March 2021 Abstract The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is close to 1% in the United States of America and other countries. Special attention should be given to oral health in individuals with ASD as they are often affected by oral diseases. However, gingival health in children with ASD and adolescents is controversial in terms of the severity of disease and number of people affected.

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Is Your Child Susceptible to Cavities?

Gilreath Dental

Did you know that tooth decay is the primary reason for missed school days in the United States? While cavities can develop on teeth at any stage of life, children are most susceptible. It is important to realize that cavities on baby teeth demand treatment just like they do on adult teeth. Untreated decay on… The post Is Your Child Susceptible to Cavities?

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How a Cloud-Based Practice Management Solution Can Relieve Pain Points for Your DSO

Planet DDS

If you’re leading a DSO it’s likely there are a variety of good reasons you chose that path. Now that you’re invested, complexity is something to be reckoned with. Leading a complex organization is now among the reasons to consider how a cloud-based practice management solution can relieve the pain-points for DSOs. Innovation in the past two to three decades has changed much about how you access and manage data.

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Patients Should Steer Clear of DIY TikTok Dentistry

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

As more people turn to social media for all things trending, oral health professionals should be prepared to remind patients that not all TikTok trends should be followed, especially do-it-yourself (DIY) dentistry. Mimicking viral oral health trends may result in long-lasting negative oral health effects for those who try these ill-advised dental treatments at home.

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What is Digital Smile Design? What Does the Process Involve?

Healthy Smiles

Who doesn’t want a perfect smile? After all, a smile is a curve that sets everything straight. With the introduction of digital smile design , it is possible to have that curve on your face perfected as you want. What is Digital Smile Design? Digital smile design is a cosmetic dental procedure that uses computer software to analyse and redesign a patient’s smile.

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Free Downloads Help You Promote Oral Cancer Awareness During April

My Social Practice

AS YOU KNOW, APRIL IS ORAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. This is an great opportunity to educate patients and show them how much you care about their health. At the same time, you’ll be strengthening relationships with your patients and prospective new patients! Download Your Free Materials Now. Download BOTH your in-practice materials and online materials below: Promote Oral Cancer Awareness ONLINE.

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TruForm™ – Accessible Online Forms for Dental Patients with Disabilities

We Speak Dental

TruForm – Accessible Online Forms for Dental Patients with Disabilities. Online Patient Registration. truForm , the most popular secure online form solution for dentists, is now fully ADA & AA WCAG 2.0 compliant, meeting all possible accessibility standards to better serve all patients and users, irrespective of their disability status. With more than 41 million Americans affected by visual and auditory disabilities, designing your website and online presence, including your online for

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More Good News on the COVID-19 Vaccine Front

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are highly effective at preventing both symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. The CDC has found that both vaccinations offer 90% efficacy 2 weeks after the second shot is given, and 80% efficacy 2 weeks after the first shot is given.

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The Founder of Children’s Dental Fun Zone Tells How He Grew to 14 Locations.

Go Ask Fred

G Dr. Fariborz Rodef has built an amazing group of pediatric dental practices, fourteen in all, after several years of being reluctant to even own his own practice. He’s also done it without any outside investment. This is his strategy … Continue reading → The post The Founder of Children’s Dental Fun Zone Tells How He Grew to 14 Locations. appeared first on Go Ask Fred: The Blog of Fred Joyal.

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Dental SEO: The Truth About Getting To The Top Of Google Maps

My Social Practice

Google is the #1 search engine, and it is the very first place your future patients are going to find a new dentist. Studies show that 97% of people learn more about a local company online than anywhere else. How is your dental SEO stacking up against the competition? It’s simple. If your practice’s Google My Business profile doesn’t show up in the top results when someone in your area searches for a new dentist, you are missing out on new patients.

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How Diabetes and Oral Health are Linked 

Broomfield Dentists / MountainAire

Patients who have diabetes are typically aware that the disease can affect other parts of the body, such as the nerves, kidneys, heart, and more. However, it can also cause problems with oral health. Those who have diabetes are more at risk for developing gum disease, which is an infection of the gums and bones that hold the teeth into place. . What is Diabetes?

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More States Open Up COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility to All Adults

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

With SARS-CoV-2 infection rates remaining stable, many states are working hard to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents who want them. At press time, 31 states have opened COVID-19 vaccination to all adults already or plan to do so by mid-April or May 1. While the number of COVID-19-related deaths continues to decrease, 25 states report stubbornly high rates of infection.

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Are You A Real Dentist Or Do You Just Work Here?

Coaches Corner

Are You A Real Dentist Or Do You Just Work Here? In today’s episode, we field a great listener question about the best way to get a new patient’s contact information and what to do if they don’t commit to an appointment time. Then, we do some secret shopper calls posing as a new patient who wants an implant. Should be a no-brainer, right? After all, this patient knows what they want and they called a dental office!

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Smile Enhancements That Could Make Your Wedding Day Like No Other

Coshocton Dental

Each of life's moments are precious—but some are more precious than others. For one like your wedding day, you want to look your very best. Be sure your teeth and gums are also ready for that once in a lifetime moment. Here are a few cosmetic enhancements that can transform your smile appearance. Dental cleanings. Having your teeth cleaned professionally not only boosts your dental health, but it can also enhance your smile's brightness.

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The Modern Family Dental Care Service Guarantee

Modern Family Dental

The Modern Family Dental Care team is devoted to providing our patients with the best in customer care. Using the latest in dental technology and dental techniques, we provide superlative service quality. Because we know that undergoing dental restoration work can be daunting, and dental care is an investment in your health, Modern Family. Read more » The post The Modern Family Dental Care Service Guarantee appeared first on Modern Family Dental Care.

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FDA Approves Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests Available Without a Prescription

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

To add to the growing feed of positive pandemic news, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved several at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 tests available without a prescription on March 31. These antigen tests are designed for the serial screening of individuals in settings such as schools and workplaces. Serial screening is key to ongoing management of the pandemic as it allows for the testing of the same subjects multiple times, which enables the quick identification of as

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The Dirty Dozen – How to Answer The Most Difficult Questions Patients Ask!

Coaches Corner

The Dirty Dozen – How to Answer The Most Difficult Questions Patients Ask! One of the simplest yet most effective “tweaks” you can make in your practice is learning how to answer the most difficult and frustrating questions that patients ask. And in this brand new webinar: “The Dirty Dozen: How To Answer The Most Difficult Patient Questions!”.

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The Doctors I Why Patients with Gum Disease are More Likely.

The Super Dentists

The Doctors are joined by dentist Dr. Kami Hoss who shares why oral health is so important — especially when it comes to COVID-19. Dr. Hoss explains the findings of a recent study that suggests patients with gum disease are. Read More. The post The Doctors I Why Patients with Gum Disease are More Likely. appeared first on The Super Dentists.

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iTero Element 5D Evaluation is Beginning!

Denticle

Somewhere about the year 2010 or so, I decided to explore the concept of digital impressions. I had been involved with CEREC for several years by that time, but they still hadn't created the ability to send cases to a lab. yet. And that was what I really wanted. I wanted the speed and the efficiency of digital impressions, but I still wanted to include the lab in some of my cases.