Issues

Ask,"What Kind of Dentist Do I Want to Be?" A new year is the ideal time to take a moment and examine your life—both personally and professionally. This is not a passive activity—it is a...

PPO Strategies to Get the Best Dentistry for Patients. It is no secret that dentists are feeling the financial pain of preferred provider organization (PPO) participation. In some states, dentists must agree to discount their...

Managing PPO Memberships and Associated Agreements. Today, dental insurance companies are working aggressively to expand their network footprints to include more dentists and more locations. According to the Life Insurance and Market Research Association (LIMRA),...

A Makeup Artist Gets a Full Smile Makeover. Makeup is a lifelong passion for me. My journey into makeup artistry as a career started at home—my mom and sisters are all glamour girls. I loved...

In the past, traditional marketing was about pushing a message out to as many people as possible and hopefully convincing even a small number of them to take the next step—maybe calling a practice...

A Full Arch Makeover Corrects a Childhood Injury. Getting hit in the face with a baseball bat will ruin your day, but it doesn’t have to ruin your life. I’m proof of that. As a...

You might say that I inherited my interest in the dental industry from my mom. While I was growing up, my mom worked for Dr. Henry Cheney, the previous owner of Amesbury Dental Associates...

Very early one Friday morning in the late eighties, I was driving from Hamburg to Frankfurt on the German autobahn for my first seminar with Dr. Dick Barnes.

There is perhaps no more tragic phrase in the English language than “I did not realize.” These four words communicate in subtle brevity two of the major factors that prevent us from reaching our...

When the digital dental scanner was introduced in 1987, a paradigm shift was created in the way dental impressions could be made. But it was 20 years later when scanner hardware and software fulfilled...