Weave Payments offers full payment processing bundled with Weave’s powerful communication suite Weave, the complete business toolbox for service-based businesses and one of the fastest-growing companies in tech, today announced the public debut of Weave Payments, a full-scale payment processing platform for small to medium businesses (SMBs). The platform, complete with merchant services, joins Weave’s … Read more
As a practicing dental hygienist, I focused on the delivery of patient-centred care, avoided the financial and operational aspects of a dental practice, and had no need for business acumen. Over time working in dental clinics, my interests and horizons expanded, and I became more and more fascinated by the economic underpinnings of an oral … Read more
Eric Bruno has joined Dentsply Sirona as Senior Vice President of the North America Regional Commercial Organization. He is responsible for leading the company’s go-to-market strategy in North America to provide innovative solutions and clinical education supporting dental professionals and improving patient outcomes. A 25-year veteran of medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer businesses, Eric Bruno … Read more
According to a recently published Fact.MR report, the global dental anesthetics market has been prompted due its requirement in oral surgeries, particularly in complicated cases. Furthermore, the inclination towards painless treatment and active prevalence of oral health are other factor motivating the sales of dental anesthetics. In order to gain better insight, readers can access … Read more
The business year has been characterized by different local currency growth rates. In Europe, Ivoclar Vivadent grew by 4%. Similarly positive growth rates were recorded for Latin America (+16%) and Asia/Pacific (+4%). “Our investments in the developing markets have proven to be extremely profitable. This is because Brazil, Mexico, Russia and China in particular have … Read more
Dentsply Sirona, the Dental Solutions Company™, announced today that author and sought-after speaker Simon Sinek will present the keynote address at Dentsply Sirona World 2017 on Friday morning, Sept. 15. Recognized by many as a visionary and ardent optimist, Sinek possesses an unorthodox yet refreshing outlook on corporate culture and the significance of strong leadership … Read more
Dr. Wilson Chen, BSc., DDS, CFP, FMA, weighs the pros and cons of various strategies and approaches to paying down the sizeable student debt accrued by recent graduates from dental college. Dr. Chen graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1992 and, over the course of 20 years, built a successful family practice. Wilson is the … Read more
From the Harvard Business Review – to be extrapolated For decades the mystery shopper was the main way retailers assessed operations from a customer’s point of view. By sending in a fake shopper, typically once a month, an individual store essentially was buying a dozen performance snapshots per year. Then telephone surveys began to supplement mystery shopping. … Read more
Yup in addition to the traditional four year dental degree with the inclusion of a one year residency, the DeVry University Doctor of Dental Surgery is now offering post graduate degree extensions for dentists in Business and Management, Engineering and Information Sciences, Media Arts and Technology and Network and Communications Management. Not only can you … Read more
I had the opportunity to wander through the MaRS complex the other day because of http://www.marsdd.com/events/details/free-geek-toronto-used-computers-and-electronics-pickup. If you don’t know much about MaRS, then wander through http://www.marsdd.com/ and make it a point to revisit….brilliant concept, but MEDICAL YOU KNOW………I have young granchildren who each own an iPAD2, and a MacBook Air…….when my 4 year old has to remember something, … Read more
From Fox Small Business Center – August 10, 2011 STEVIE WE LUVS YA!!!!! NEW YORK – Investors seem to think you want an iPad more than oil, as Apple Inc. became the most valuable company in the United States, surpassing Exxon Mobil Corp. on Wednesday. Apple briefly flirted with the top spot on Tuesday afternoon before settling back … Read more
It boggles the mind… Here are 15 reasons why your dental practice Needs an iPad: Using the KeyNote app you can show your patients powerful before and after pictures in a creative presentation. Have more than one office? Conduct a staff meeting that all of your offices can participate in by using the GoToMeeting or Webex app. Are you a … Read more
So you want to name your dental practice with something other than the word SMILE??? A quick story: a business partner and I decided to create a private medical business to help private fee physicians and patients better connect, and to deliver basic private medical practice administrative services. We wanted to use a business name … Read more
I am obsessed with Apple as a company, as a culture, as the most innovative business to model in the past century and of course, I dress like Steve Jobs, granted several sizes larger. From Dental IQ – Jul 21, 2011 – for all those who thought I was meshugenah when I went on and … Read more
For some reason, a literal avalanche of practice administration and management courses came across my desk this week. I used to attend. There was the occasional pearl of wisdom, a kernel of insight gleaned, but in all candour, I learned more from a good server at a quality restaurant than I did from many save … Read more
From the Harvard Business Review – by Heidi Grant Halvorson Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why … Read more
Education and business are truly not that different. They work off similar models. The original model for all things is the Ten Commandments – if you really look beyond the obvious, you’ll see the first five represent a relation with GOD, or a profession or an industry, and the second Image via Wikipedia five commandments … Read more
My recent trip to the IDS in Cologne, Germany kicked off with the Ivoclar Vivadent press conference, held on Monday, March 21st. Mr. Robert Ganley, CEO of Ivoclar Vivadent AG, was “pleased to report a significant sales growth of 9.5% for the business year 2010”. Company performance was strong in all global markets–sales in Europe increased … Read more
A worthy read if you want to be “The Dental Office” Guy Kawasaki may be the Dale Carnegie of the technology age. While Enchantment is peppered with references to PowerPoint, Facebook, and other 21st century topics, much of the wisdom is as timeless as what you’ll still find in How to Win Friends and Influence … Read more
Copenhagen, December 23, 2010 – 3Shape A/S, the user-acclaimed worldwide leader in 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, has released its next generation Dental SystemTM2010 to the market. This latest pacesetting software for Dental CAD/CAM solutions brings new and highly sophisticated indications never before seen in the digital arena, offering unsurpassed productivity and business gains for … Read more