How E-mail Marketing Helps Dentists Retain Patients

By A Weber – For Dental Heroes – If you’d like to be my dental hero and guest post, drop us a line….. You know exactly how to fashion a retainer to hold teeth in place, but retaining your customers is a whole different story. They come, they go, they switch practices, and what can … Read more

Don’t ya just screw ’em in and let them integrate – WHO KNEW?

Burlington, MA – August 22, 2011 Keystone Dental, an oral healthcare company focused on the delivery of breakthrough products to the oral healthcare space, announced today that a five-year, multi-center study to evaluate the long-term success of Genesis, The Biomimetic Implant System™, will begin this week. This postmarket surveillance study will evaluate both the long-term … Read more

Steve Jobs for KING OF THE WORLD

I’m farklempt, read on, APP’s, more APP’s…….Laval, Canada – CANADA!!! – August 20,2011 Created in partnership with Bold Technologies, an innovative mobile application marks the next step for Styledent Technologies in finding more solutions in new technologies with the goal of improving communication between dentists and technicians. (PR.com)– Building on its journey to become a … Read more

Does a dental practice need an employee handbook?

By Stuart J. Oberman, Esq from Dental Tribune – August 12, 2011 For a practicing dentist who aims to always deliver high-quality patient care, staff retention is an important value. Staff retention aids the dental practice in providing stability and continuity and eliminates the high costs associated with employee turnover. Obviously, staff members are more … Read more

Anything with the name Oxnard in it has to be worth the read

New iPAD APP available……. OXNARD, California, August 10, 2011- Dental office organization can be confusing and overwhelming. Questions like “why do I need so many trays?” or “should I buy cassettes?” and “am I in compliance?” come up all the time when speaking with dental professionals.  That’s why the Office Organization Calculator iPhone/iPad App and … Read more

Animation – it’s in your future

With Apple becoming the #1 company on the NYSE – how long will it be before someone gets the message and brings APPLE to a dental convention near to you. A hands-on program for developing customized patient education iMovies – access to animation vignettes from Consult Pro which should be on this like a fat … Read more

You KNEAD an iPAD……

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

New International Postgraduate Orthodontic Program starting in Jerusalem

From Dental Tribune – by Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Dental Medicine August 1, 2011 JERUSALEM,Israel: The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem has a new International Postgraduate Orthodontic Program and invites applications. The program,taught entirely in English, begins 1 March 2012 and is open to dentists who hold a DDS or … Read more

Replacement of a faulty posterior restoration – restorez-toi McDuff

I wish to share an example of what all of us at Oral Health hope will become a standard of sharing and caring by Canadian dentists. This case is online with Cosmetic Tribune, one of the incredible publications from Dental Tribune International which includes Dental Tribune Study Club – www.dtstudyclub.com.  The format being laid out … Read more

Dental Implants design and primary stability. A histometrical evaluation

Nothing like RSS feeds coming to your iPHONE, iPAD regardless of where you find yourself…..the pan seared rainbow trout with salsa verde at Ruby Watchco is exceptional G.E. ROMANOS1, M. DAMOURAS2,A. VEIS3,F. SCHWARZ4, and N. PARISIS3, 1New York University, USA, 2Dental School Frankfurt, Germany, 3Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4University of Düsseldorf, Germany Bone-to-implant contact (BIC) % and primary stability … Read more

Should dentists screen for diabetes?

By Rosemary Frei – DrBicuspid.com contributing writer July 28, 2011 — A new study suggests that dentists can accurately screen patients for diabetes and prediabetes using results from two measures they already routinely assess in the clinic (Journal of Dental Research,July 2011,Vol. 90:7, pp. 855-860). Even so, whether most dental offices will add this to daily … Read more

Something for Oral Health to ponder upon……

Albeit, the free trip would be to East Kobakonk….nonetheless… Win a free trip to New York City and join us for the Dental Tribune Awards Dental Tribune is the largest dental newspaper worldwide, published in more than 25 languages with a readership of 650,000+ dentists, and it is one of the best known brands in … Read more

Do you have children? grandchildren? Then you must read this posting!

From Cleveland.com (not the online spin-off from Family Guy)… Biomedical engineering is fastest growing field; dental jobs offer many new spots for 2-year degrees 72 percent: Projected growth in jobs for biomedical engineers from 2008 to 2018, the fastest growing occupation. Education: bachelor’s degree. New jobs: 11,600. Median pay in 2008: $77,400. 53 percent: Projected growth in jobs … Read more

Projections for the remainder of the year..you look mahvellous

Hmmmmmmm – From Dentistry IQ Jul 10, 2011 “The McGill Advisory” is forecasting continued improvement for dental practices in 2011, as the economy continues to slowly recover. The stock market rally has continued, erasing all of the 2008-2009 decline. Meanwhile, interest rates have remained very low by historical standards. Job creation is rising and layoffs … Read more

Planning to sell? Your best bet is in 2012

Was there a market crash in 2008? I kid you, but, the boomers got put on hold, and the times they are achangin’…..so read on McDuff. Jul 8, 2011 By Adam R. Decker, CPA Partner, Veros Dental The trend for the last three years has been for dentists to hold off on selling their practices … Read more

Leaders in Dentistry: A conversation with Dr. David T.W. Wong

Continued kudos to Dr. Bicuspid and Donna Domino July 7, 2011 — DrBicuspid.com is pleased to present the latest installment of Leaders in Dentistry, a series of interviews with researchers, practitioners, and opinion leaders who are influencing the practice of dentistry. We spoke with David T.W. Wong, DMD,DMSc,the associate dean of research and a professor of oral … Read more