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How and Why the Dental Profession is Pandemic Proof

Oral Health Group

2020 did not work out as any of us planned. So many had great expectations which quickly came to a grinding halt. The world changed and so has the way we do business. Some changes will become permanent. As difficult … The post How and Why the Dental Profession is Pandemic Proof appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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How to Get More Patient Referrals to Your Dental Practice

Delivering Wow

If there’s one thing every dental practice needs to grow, it’s patients in the chair. Some need more patients. Others need patients in need of higher-fee dentistry. And others need more fee-for-service patients. If you’re worried about where your next patient is going to come from, rest assured that you are likely just one or two referral strategies away from growth.

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10 Tricks to Help Your Bookkeeper Streamline Your Dental Practice Accounting

Bookkeeping For Dentists

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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3 Essential Budget Practices for Dental Marketing

Clicc Media

Source Avoid Common Mistakes and Take These Smart Steps When Creating Your Marketing Budget A mindboggling low number of dental practices know their marketing budget. Those who do are ahead of the competition by simply treating their dental practices as they should, as a business. Having a marketing budget and managing it properly is essential […] The post 3 Essential Budget Practices for Dental Marketing appeared first on Clicc Media Inc.

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The Leadership Lesson of 2020

Dental Peers

As we find ourselves in the final month of 2020, I am sure many of us would rather just turn the page to 2021 rather than look back on this crazy year. However, looking back can provide an incredible perspective. We learn what we did well so we can duplicate it. More importantly, we learn what areas we may need to focus on to improve going forward. .

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Mercury Fillings Dangers, Who Is At Risk & Removal Checklist

Ask The Dentist

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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A Complete Guide To Teledentistry: The Future of Virtual Dental Care

Carestack

For more than 10 years, Teledentistry has been used by many dentists across the world to spread out the accessibility of their dental practices, reducing the oral health disparities between urban and rural communities. Fast-forwarding to 2020, teledentistry has made the entire dental care delivery model more safe and convenient, along with lowering the overall cost of dentistry.

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The Components of an Effective Landing Page

Identity Dental

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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Tooth Decay: Hard Facts About Soft Teeth

Queen of Dental Hygiene

Moms are incredible. Moms want answers to help their children be healthy. When they do not know where to turn, they turn to the internet. In this case, Facebook. My oldest daughter is a new mom, and in her new mom group came the question: what can be done to help a youngster who has tooth decay under stainless steel crowns and needs root canals. So, this one is for you Moms!

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How to Pivot Your Medical Practice to TeleHealth During COVID-19

Med Rank Interactive

Healthcare Digital Marketing Podcast. This episode of the Healthcare Digital Marketing Podcast covers the impact that COVID-19 is having on Dr. Ahmad and his interventional pain management practice. We discuss how Dr. Ahmad of Advanced Sports & Spine is communicating with his team and his patients, what changes he has implemented in his practice, and how telehealth is working out for his practice and his patients.

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Treating Patients with Dental Phobias

Oral Health Group

So many suffer from dental phobias and the anxiety they suffer with can be a huge barrier to care. Some may go years without seeing a dental hygienist or a dentist. As a dental hygienist, I have seen how dental … The post Treating Patients with Dental Phobias appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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3 Ways to Train Your Dental Team to Collect Payments Well

Delivering Wow

While a dental practice is a business, dental school doesn’t teach us much about collecting payments and managing operations. That’s what continuing education is for. And that’s what Delivering WOW is here for, too. We have helped thousands of dentists strengthen their practices while delivering WOW experience to each of their patients. But we want to continue to be able to deliver WOW, we need to ensure our businesses are financially strong, too.

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Ingenious dental practice payroll tools that save dentists time and money.

Bookkeeping For Dentists

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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Do You Have These Quality Backlinks For Your Dental Website?

Clicc Media

Link Building Tips For Dentist When jump-starting your link building campaign, always remember that “quality” is more important than “quantity” At Clicc Media Inc, we always suggest that you first acquire high quality local directories to help your dental practice begin to rank locally. These directories include: Google Yelp Bing For Local Business Yellowpages In […] The post Do You Have These Quality Backlinks For Your Dental Website?

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Fear: It May Be a GREAT Motivator…But it Seldom Motivates You Toward Greatness!

Dental Peers

We see it in our daily news coverage…particularly now! We see it in many of our regular, commercial advertisements to purchase this product or that service or something bad will happen. We see it in our daily news coverage…particularly now! . We see it in many of our regular, commercial advertisements to purchase this product or that service or something bad will happen.

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Diet Matters More than Brushing for Strong Teeth. Here’s Why.

Ask The Dentist

Ancient vs. modern diets. What’s missing? The role of saliva. Why is brushing important? Bottom line. Brush, floss, mouthwash, and go to the dentist. That’s what we’re often told is the “key” to oral health. If you want fewer cavities, just follow that prescription… Right? Sadly, modern dentistry has invented many ways to work around a problem that makes cavities the #1 preventable chronic disease in the world.

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Online Reputation Management For Dental Practices

Carestack

Reputation is the face of any business, be it a greenhorn or a seasoned master. For a dental practice, reputation is the power to attract new clients and retain the existing clients providing them a constant sense of value and quality. This, in turn, means the business goes where its clients go. So in today’s era when the most number of clients are looking for dental solutions online (a whopping 77%), one can easily assume that business reputation is no more on the billboard stilts but on the di

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How differences can come together under the dentist’s leadership

Dentistry Gone Digital

For nearly a decade, I have believed in the power of “Together We Rise.” That’s why it has been the mantra of IgniteDDS when it first created, and IgniteDA when it came along later. But what does that really mean? How can we really work together? In an era where we have perhaps never been more divided as a society, how can we make sure we’re on the same page in the dental practice as a group every day?

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Don’t Let Covid Kill Your Morale

Identity Dental

Author: Grace Rizza, CEO, Identity Dental Marketing We’ve been in this new “Covid World” now for many months. Whether your business has been in high-demand or you’re struggling to stay operational, you’ve likely been affected. Covid swept into our lives, took our sense of normalcy, security and for some, our sanity. It took our business […].

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Being a “Bio – Logical” Dental Healthcare Superhero

Queen of Dental Hygiene

October is National Dental Hygiene Month. In honor of this great profession I want to share with you my Bio-Logical story. I am a bio- logical dental healthcare superhero out to save the world. This is my story: I started out as a regular dental hygienist. Graduated near the top of my class and totally clueless about dental hygiene but I knew I did not want to be a clinical hygienist, that I was “better than that”.

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Healthcare Marketing Predictions: A bold Guide to Crushing 2021

Med Rank Interactive

With a new year on the horizon, it is time for healthcare practices to review their marketing strategies and set goals for 2021. As is custom, the healthcare industry’s performance in 2020 creates the backdrop for 2021 expectations. . The events in 2020 have given us a lot to think about health and healthcare delivery in a crisis. Whatever happens next year, the goal is to grow your practice. .

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5 Common Mistakes Dental Practices Should Avoid

Oral Health Group

Running a dental practice isn’t all about how good you are at performing a wide array of dental procedures. While being renowned for your expertise will always be great, there are other things you need to consider to ensure your … The post 5 Common Mistakes Dental Practices Should Avoid appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Training Dental Team Members Who Are Not Good With Patients

Delivering Wow

Have you ever had a team member who was afraid to talk to patients or was not outgoing or building connections with your patients? I have had several team members like that throughout the years. Unfortunately, many team members who aren’t naturally outgoing or warm assume they have a disadvantage. However, the truth is introverted team members and team members who struggle to make connections can excel in the dental practice if you give them the right training, tasks, and direction.

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Carestream Dental Announces New Integration with exocad Smile Creator

Dental News and Technology

ATLANTA— Carestream Dental is empowering practitioners to plan an ideal smile from a digital impression thanks to a preferred partnership with exocad Smile Creator, a state-of-the-art smile solution that’s now integrated into the Carestream Dental’s product portfolio. Once a patient’s teeth have been scanned with either a CS 3600 or CS 3700 intraoral scanner, the Smile Creator can be directly accessed from Carestream Dental’s CS Imaging and CS ScanFlow software, streamlining and simplifying the

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How to master these seven dental key performance indicators

Bookkeeping For Dentists

There are so many dental practice key performance indicators floating around, it probably makes your head spin. The good news is, no matter what all that KPI noise tells you, the ultimate dental practice KPIs simply come down to your financial reports (the actual money in and out), particularly, your collection income vs. practice overhead expenses.

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Dentistry in the Second Wave

Dental Peers

Looking back to the glorious month of August, it was not just the wonderful summer weather we were enjoying. We were also enjoying the easing of restrictions as Covid numbers appeared to be on the decline. Yes…we heard the warning calls about the potential for a second wave. Perhaps we hoped that wave would not materialize as we enjoyed how properly distanced, outdoor get togethers gave us a break from “Covid fatigue”.

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Fluoride For Kids & Cavities: The Myths & The Science [Parent’s Guide]

Ask The Dentist

Recent fluoride news. Fluoride sources. Does it prevent cavities? In toothpaste vs. water. Varnish pros & cons. Questions to discuss with your dentist. Fluoride toxicity. Fluoride myths. Bottom line. You don’t need fluoride in your toothpaste, or in your water, or in your mouthwash. Yes, fluoride helps fight cavities (sometimes called “ tooth decay ” or “dental caries”).

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A Complete Guide To Teledentistry: The Future of Virtual Dental Care

Carestack

For more than 10 years, Teledentistry has been used by many dentists across the world to spread out the accessibility of their dental practices, reducing the oral health disparities between urban and rural communities. Fast-forwarding to 2020, teledentistry has made the entire dental care delivery model more safe and convenient, along with lowering the overall cost of dentistry.

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Looking Forward to 2021

David Schwab & Associates, Inc.

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Marketing for Dentists | Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Identity Dental

Do you work hard to avoid having difficult conversations with your employees? Do you do everything in your power to keep the peace, just accepting some poor behaviors rather than start a confrontation? Whatever reason you choose to avoid these conversations, you shouldn’t allow the inability to confront the things that truly matter to the […].

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Untied for The Win

Queen of Dental Hygiene

I know this is the Queen of Dental Hygiene, but as the daughter of the Queen of Dental Hygiene, and very loyal editor of the blog, and August being National Breastfeeding month , I’m taking a liberty to tell you my breastfeeding story. And never fear – there is absolutely a tie-in! I’ve been mentally writing this for the last 10 months. My little guy is closing in on one year!

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Using science, common sense, and communication to bust those dental myths

Dentistry Gone Digital

You know the funny thing about myths? Often, if you use your brain and think about them for a few minutes, you’ll figure out exactly why they’re called myths and not facts. Dental myths have been running rampant in our society since COVID-19 burst onto the scene. There are a lot of patients who are falling prey to some misinformation … and it’s not just the dentist’s job to make sure people are informed correctly.

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5 Website Features Every Dental Practice Needs

Oral Health Group

Whether you’re building out your dental practice’s website for the first time or undergoing a redesign, there are certain things you should keep in mind before you hit “Publish.” From elements on your homepage to your blog content, this article … The post 5 Website Features Every Dental Practice Needs appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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How to Create an Automated Dental Practice

Delivering Wow

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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The clinical implications of platelet-rich fibrin on periodontal regeneration: A systematic review

Dental News and Technology

The Saudi Dental Journal Available online 9 December 2020 In Press, Uncorrected Proof What are Uncorrected Proof articles? Abstract Objectives Platelet concentrates have been shown to enhance periodontal regeneration when used as a treatment on their own or in conjunction with bone grafting materials. This systematic review aims to assess the effects of using platelet-rich fibrin (PRF), both alone and in combination with other conventionally used materials, on periodontal regeneration in clinica

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Five efficient methods to streamline paying bills in your dental practice.

Bookkeeping For Dentists

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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Building Your Basics: Building Your Confidence

Dental Peers

Turning the page on August was particularly challenging this year. Let’s face it, as much as we cannot wait to see the end of 2020, the ease with which we enjoyed outdoor time during the summer was also a tremendous source of comfort. Fall and the coming winter are bringing higher levels of anxiety this year. Parents are wondering how reopening schools will work.

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