ITI Congress for UK and Ireland – are these lads talking?

Love the way they’ve organized this congress as a TEAM EFFORT!!!! The International Team for Implantology ITI Congress UK & Ireland will be held on December 1 – 3 2011 at the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, UK. The Congress theme is ‘Implants in Practice‘. Implant dentistry is a team effort and the programme … Read more

Thus spake Zarathustra

Something to ponder and consider: Practice: By developing an online presence for office through Facebook, Twittr, or a blog, you demonstrate to potential patients that you are human and care about their world. Collegial: The ability to obtain literally immediate information on a product, a piece of equipment, on a treatment plan is simply unachievable … 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

Practice management gurus? In whom do we trust? Eh, Pluribus Unum?

How do you discern truth, fact? What is real any longer in a world and a profession that seems geared to bells and whistles? If you read the websites and the association newsletters, everywhere in the dental world, it is a landscape of milk and honey, manna from heaven is on every slow food dental … Read more

9 Reasons You Should Consider Digital Case Presentation in Your Practice

From Dental Heroes – Jameson Management – May 12, 2011 The world around us is changing, and it’s changing rapidly. As consumer (patient) needs and demands change, so too must the way you interact with them. In many cases, this means introducing new technologies into your case presentation. If you’re already using digital tools for … Read more

Our Biggest Challenge for Patient Case Acceptance

Dental Practice Solutions is an excellent website owned and run by Debra Seidel-Bittke.  Her latest blog posting is the title of this entry…..here’s a little about Debra and this  blog posting on Case Acceptance is readable with a simple click on BLOG on the website……..looks like a winner for a local study club to me…..get … Read more

Sisters just keep on keepin’ on KEEPIN’ ON…….

Women’s 3rd Annual Dental Conference – June 10-11, 2011 Please note – KIM KARDASHIAN WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE The convenors are trying to keep it “real”…. Blue Mountain Resort COLLINGWOOD, ONJune 10-11, 2011 • Dr. Julianna da Costa – Whitening• Dr. Susanne Perschbacher & Dr. Kristina Perschbacher – Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology & Oral Radiology• Paula Morrison – Temporary Restorations … Read more

Three Grecian Legacies – Goodness, Ethics and Souvlaki

by Linda Zdanowicz from Exceptional Dental Practice Management “Ethics is all about spiritually healthy people in socially harmonious relationships.”  ~Tom Morris~ When I read Tom’s definition of ethics I can’t help but think that we can’t have one without the other.  A spiritually healthy person will quickly reject and leave a socially unharmonious workplace…or she … Read more

The #1 Killer In a Dental Practice: Indifference

By Yin Chew Visit his blog  There are a myriad of problems associated with practising dentistry today. We’ve been inculcated by consultants NOT to take phone calls and disrupt production, many don’t have email in their practices to assist in quasi virtual consultations and sharing information about long term treatment planning at times can feel … Read more

GPS dentistry: Discover your direction and destination

In the course of looking for information on “green” office design, I identified several interesting websites and an article from Dental Economics worth reposting…… Image via Wikipedia http://www.practicedesigngroup.com http://www.unthank.comhttp://www.burkhartdental.com Each provided an interesting feature – floor plans, design, et al…..but in retrospect, I wondered if we know when we start our practice, our careers, what … Read more