Ask The Dentist

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Are they still used? How much mercury they contain. 34 dangers. Why are they still used? Health agency positions. Who is at risk? Should you have them removed? Mercury fillings are used to fill cavities. They are made up of various metals, but typically contain 50% mercury by weight. These amalgam fillings release mercury that is not only bad for your oral health but may be absorbed into your brain, kidneys, liver, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract.

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Delivering Wow

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As dentists, we’re visionaries , and if having an automated dental practice is something you’ve dreamed of for your practice, you might be surprised to learn it’s not very difficult to put in place. If you want to create an automated dental practice, you only need a few pieces in place. After all, a vision alone won’t help you achieve your goal. You also must take action and hold yourself accountable as you pursue your goal.

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Identity Dental

OCTOBER 2, 2020

If you’re in the process of building ads for a service, event, or product, you’ll likely discover that ads that lead to pages designed to turn an interested viewer into a lead or customer are an important component of an effective campaign. Like any marketing component, the design and writing matter. Without a clean, focused […].

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Oral Health Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While dentists and patients alike are happy to see practices reopening, the new normal carries some harsh realities. One of the most notable is the increased cost of doing business. Increasing prices and usage of PPE (personal protective equipment) is … The post What You Need to Know About the Controversial “COVID-19 Fee” appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You wear many hats in your dental practice, and you don't always have the time to deal with the learning curve of trying new things. When it comes to dental office payroll, you may do it the way it’s always been done, even the same as the person you purchased the practice from, but what If you could make it better? Gone are the days of paying your CPA or some outside third person to manage your dental office payroll.

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Dental News and Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Abstract Study Objectives: To systematically survey the scientific literature concerning the effect of playing a wind instrument or singing on sleep, snoring, and/or obstructive sleep apnea. Methods: The PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases were searched up to December 2019. Observational studies and (Randomized) Controlled Clinical Trials that assessed sleep, snoring, or obstructive sleep apnea as clinical outcome or via a questionnaire were included.

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Identity Dental

OCTOBER 2, 2020

If you’re in the process of building ads for a service, event, or product, you’ll likely discover that ads that lead to pages designed to turn an interested viewer into a lead or customer are an important component of an effective campaign. Like any marketing component, the design and writing matter. Without a clean, focused […]. The post Best Dental Marketing | The Components of an Effective Landing Page appeared first on Dental Marketing.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We have dental practices from 500k in revenue to 8 million in revenue that manually write 2 to 3 checks per year. It keeps the books clean and transparent along with the cash flow consistently accurate. Every practice can benefit from streamlining bills and reducing the old school check writing for many reasons, including the following: Always have a reliable cash balance.

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Dental News and Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

ATLANTA—The new Imaging Case and Collaboration (ICC) app from Carestream Dental is the easy-to-use platform that makes sharing cases more secure and straightforward. From the GP to the specialist to the lab—even practices within the same network, such as a DSO setting—ICC makes it easier to connect oral health care providers for closer collaboration, getting patients the answers and care they need sooner.

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ASDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

With thousands of informative and entertaining podcasts available on different streaming services, listening to podcasts has become a normal part of many people’s everyday schedules. Podcasts are free to listen to and can be listened to anywhere — on the drive home, on a bike ride, or while cooking and cleaning. Many of them feel more like conversations than traditional news stories and are perfect for busy people on the go such as dental students.

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Vacaville Dental Professionals

OCTOBER 2, 2020

You brush your teeth every night and visit your Vacaville dentist every six months, but you still wake up each day with unpleasant, embarrassing morning breath. The cause of this frustrating phenomenon? Often, it’s dental plaque. Fortunately, there are many steps you can take at home to fight plaque and protect your vibrant smile. What is Dental Plaque?

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

After recently speaking with a few clients about best practices working with Bookkeeping for Dentists, it occurred to me that these 'best practices' are also great ways to streamline your dental practice accounting when working with any accountant or bookkeeper. .

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Dental News and Technology

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What is the VELscope and How Does the VELscope Work? The VELscope is a device that is used as an adjunct to the Comprehensive Oral Examination (COE), aiding clinicians in visualizing oral mucosal abnormalities, including infections, trauma, oral cancer and pre-cancerous dysplasia. We often are asked about the technology behind the VELscope and the evidence for its efficacy as an adjunctive oral screening tool.

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Firegang

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Does your fall calendar have gaps in it from patients that fell off during the closures and never rescheduled? We call that The Fall Gap and it's affecting practices across the country. In fact, we've calculated the average dentist is operating at a 41% deficit because of the Fall Gap, and will remain there unless they make significant changes. Watch the video below to hear Ryan Menacho, Director of Sales & Marketing, explain the Fall Gap, and what dentists can learn from re-opening metrics

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Patient News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With months of closure, some of your active patients inevitably fell through the cracks. Appointments were missed, many patients haven’t yet rescheduled, and that means reminders can’t go out. And then there are new patients. Months of closure have to have a significant impact on future scheduling because that previously steady flow of new patients didn’t happen for a few.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Thanking your dental practice team with nice gifts and bonuses should be a pleasant and simple process while providing a positive impact in the workplace. But if you want to avoid IRS penalties in an audit, it's important to know that any cash or cash equivalent items provided by you (the employer) and given to an employee must be added to payroll as income with regular payroll taxes taken out.

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Dental News and Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry Published: September 15, 2020 Abstract Statement of problem A consensus about the effect of crown-to-implant (C/I) ratio in single crowns regarding the implant survival rate and marginal bone loss (MBL) is lacking. Purpose The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the influence of C/I ratio in implant-supported single crowns on clinical outcomes.

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Off the Cusp

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. Share. Tweet. Share. Integrating these tools and strategies will improve practice efficiency and impress upon your patients how important their comfort and safety are to you. From the front desk to the operatory, organization can make all the difference in running a successful dental practice. Keeping your office well-organized promotes a smoother workflow and allows your team to perform more efficiently and effectively.

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Gilreath Dental

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you are one of the 49% of Americans who say they do not floss on a daily basis, it may be time to reconsider your oral hygiene habits. Flossing is intended to accomplish far more than just removing food between your pearly whites. By choosing to floss each day, you are giving your smile… The post Flossing: What Is Your Excuse? appeared first on Gilreath Family Dentistry.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Have you ever noticed when your dental accountant starts talking, its a downright foreign language? Almost alien. They start throwing terms around like Gross Profit, Section 179, Basis, Capital Gains, AMT Tax… and you say “gesundheit.”. I’m guessing you most likely don’t find accounting exciting, and you don’t have the time to understand it. As your dental accountant is going over fees with you, you force a smile and nod in agreement.

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Dental News and Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Vancouver, BC – September 28, 2020 – Apteryx Imaging Inc., a subsidiary of Planet DDS, is pleased to announce that it has recently entered into an agreement with German-based Trestle GmbH, (Trestle) to co-develop a set of software modules using AI and Deep Machine Learning (DML) designed to address critically important, common diagnostic use cases in the dental imaging space.

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We Speak Dental

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How to Keep Your Practice Secure – New Webinar Series. Webinar on Dental Practice Security. Our friends at Black Talon Security and KaVo Imaging are offering a new cybersecurity webinar mini-series, Secure Your Life…Secure Your Practice. As a leader in dental website design and practice marketing, we understand how important security is to the dental and health care communities.

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Planet DDS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The fact that something is legal doesn’t always guarantee acceptance. That’s the tension often felt when the opportunity presents to determine the procedures your dental practice can bill to medical insurance. Tension aside…it IS completely legal and recommended that you take advantage of the opportunity to bill a patient’s medical insurance for certain dental procedures.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When you have finished entering your transactions from your bank and credit card accounts, do you go back and check your work? Does your CPA have to constantly remind you to do certain tasks or do you have to constantly remind your dental practice's bookkeeper? Here at Bookkeeping for Dentists, every staff accountant must complete a monthly checklist for each practice they finish for month-end bookkeeping.

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Off the Cusp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. Share. Tweet. Share. This guide to the perfect dental recall campaign will help you keep the loyal, and the less-than-reliable, patients on track, all while reclaiming more revenue for your practice. Of all the systems that keep a dental practice running, patient recall is the one that separates the successful from the struggling.

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Broomfield Dentists / MountainAire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Whether you were playing a contact sport or accidentally tripped and fell, cracked or chipped teeth unfortunately happen. Here’s what you should do when you crack a tooth, and how Mountain Aire Dentistry can help! Do You Have a Cracked or Chipped Tooth? Cracks or chips in a tooth can happen just by normal wear as we age, or it can be a result of an injury or accident.

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North Suburban Endodontics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Ed Helms is best known for his role as the self-absorbed, Ivy League sales rep, Andy Bernard, on television's The Office. But to millions of fans he's also Stu, a member of a bachelor trip to Las Vegas in the 2009 movie The Hangover. In it, Stu and his friends wake up from a wild night on the Strip to find some things missing: the groom-to-be, their memories and, for Stu, a front tooth.

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Bookkeeping For Dentists

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We currently work with more than 100 CPA's here at Bookkeeping for Dentists. Unfortunately, it's very rare to come by a dental practice CPA that does all seven of the following items as they should. But there are a handful, okay maybe. 4ish that I've worked with, who have been awesome with this list. The ones who fail to follow the below list are the ones that make my blood boil.

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Off the Cusp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog. Share. Tweet. Share. At some point, many dental professionals come to realize their dental office is no longer meeting their unique and changing needs. With this realization comes difficult questions. Do I expand my existing space or buy, lease or build a new one? What equipment and technology do I need? How should I configure my space?

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3M

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The post Temporary restoration: The unsung hero appeared first on 3M Dental Blog.

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Secure Smiles

OCTOBER 2, 2020

You brush your teeth every night and visit your Beverly Hills dentist every six months, but you still wake up each day with unpleasant, embarrassing morning breath. The cause of this frustrating phenomenon? Often, it’s dental plaque. Fortunately, there are many steps you can take at home to fight plaque and protect your vibrant smile. What is Dental Plaque?

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Your San Antonio Dentists

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A professional teeth cleaning service goes above and beyond the kind of cleaning you benefit from when you brush your teeth at home. But you might not be fully aware of what to expect from a teeth cleaning visit if it’s been a long time since you had it done. When you choose Thousand Oaks teeth cleaning, you’ll receive a service that won’t let you down.

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Coshocton Dental

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Orthodontics, veneers and other cosmetic dental techniques can turn a less than perfect smile into a beautiful one—but not always very quickly. For example, porcelain veneers can take weeks from planning to installation, including the meticulous work of an outside dental lab to produce veneers that look natural as well as beautiful. But you may be able to take advantage of another approach, one that often takes no more than a couple of dental visits.

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North Haven Dentists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

GENERALLY SPEAKING, INFLUENCERS are not a great source of health advice. One person’s experience with a technique or product is not going to be universal, and real understanding of the way the human body works comes from years of study and training, not a quick google search. With that in mind, there are a few specific oral health fads and cosmetic dental trends we want to warn our patients about.

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Perfect White Smile

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Whether you have a tooth that has experience extensive trauma, or you are dealing with a severe toothache caused by infection, it may be time to speak to a professional about root canal therapy. Root canal therapy is a specialized procedure that is completed by a dentist to remove the dental pulp from the inside of the natural tooth. In doing so, this deadens the tooth to eliminate pain and infection, while eliminating the need for permanent extraction of the tooth.

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Jeannie Chung DDS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Love at first sight—it's an endearing notion found in movies and novels, but perhaps we're a little skeptical about it happening in real life. Then again, maybe it does once in a blue moon. According to supermodel Gisele Bündchen, something definitely happened the first time she met pro quarterback Tom Brady in 2006. And it all began when he smiled. “The moment I saw him, he smiled and I was like, 'That is the most beautiful, charismatic smile I've ever seen!

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Healthy Smiles

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. At Healthy Smiles Dental Group Blackburn , we take pride in providing our patients with the same level of dental care each time they visit our clinic. Our aim is to provide your family with the finest oral health services. We have a bond of trust with our patients, which is why the locals of Blackburn prefer visiting us for their oral health care treatments.

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