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3 Things Dentists Should Stop Saying

Dentistry Gone Digital

Unfortunately, if your dental school was anything like mine, you spend years learning all the technical parts of treatment planning and diagnosis but were never taught how to properly share that information with your patients. SRP is the appropriate non surgical periodontal therapy for patients with bone loss and periodontal disease.

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Oklahoma and Oregon Dental Boards to Require Education Minimums for Dental Implant Surgery

Dentistry Today

In the face of growing public complaints over flawed dental implant surgeries, the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry and the Oregon Board of Dentistry are instituting rule changes for minimal levels of education related to dental implant surgery (not restorative implant prosthetic placement).

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U.S. Dental Services Market Size Estimated to Reach USD 254.09 Billion by 2032

Dentistry Today

dental services market size is estimated to reach around USD 254.09 dental services market size was valued at USD 145.50 Dental Services Market Size and Y-O-Y from 2022 to 2032 Forecast Year Market Size ($ Billion) Y-O-Y 2022 145.50 Periodontal Dentistry 13.72 Orthodontic and Periodontic Services 17.06 4.97 % U.S.

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Turbo-Charge Your Dental Practice with Data-Driven Decisions

Off the Cusp

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. If you’re not measuring it, you’re really flying blind,” said Dr. David Rice of the East Amherst Dental Center in East Amherst, New York, and the founder of IgniteDDS , an online dental community focused on education. The ratio of adult prophylactics to periodontal codes.

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The Benefits of Single-Visit, In-Office 3D Printed Ceramic Resin Restorations

Dentistry Today

3-5 Many dental practices, however, avoid inlay/onlay restorations due to various challenges associated with both indirect and direct restorations. Typical indirect workflows require multiple office visits, including direct composite temporization while the restoration is being fabricated at a dental lab.

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“Bloody Prophy” – US vs. England

Coaches Corner

On the dental front, we all know that “braces” are orthodontic devices – but in the UK they are what we would call suspenders. In other words, the patient has perio disease, the hygienist is, in reality, doing perio therapy (and usually not doing it well due to time constraints), and then the procedure is billed as a prophy.

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Patient-Led Financing: Getting Patients to “YES”

Off the Cusp

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog Read Time: 6 Minute, 10 Second Money talks, as the adage has it, but the truth is that most people would rather not talk about money. No wonder many patients avoid the situation by forgoing dental care entirely. About 70% of patients cant afford a medical bill thats over $3,000, Zuniga noted.