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
IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more
From Dental Health-ub – Sunday, August 7, 2011 Whitening of the teeth by bleaching is quite popular and is offered by dentists and in some cases non-dentists and pursued by many patients. The two most popular bleaching products are hydrogen peroxide (HP) and carbamide peroxide (CP) in various concentrations. The effect of bleaching on various dental materials has been fairly extensively … Read more
Since dentistry remains the red haired bastard step-child of medicine due to our penchant for technologic not biologic fundamental obsession, something to do with industry meeting quotas, nonetheless, we as a profession are going to have to understand that APPS for smart phones and tablet computers are our future. Patient education, electronic record keeping, virtual … Read more
It’s been a while since I visited the Levin Group (http://www.levingroup.com); however, an article in Dr. Biscuspid caught my attention and a quick check of the group’s newly redesigned website proved most intriguing. You should be able to receive the newsletter referenced below by contacting dentalbusinessreview@levingroup.com From Dr. Bicuspid: November 10,2010 — Levin Group is now publishing a newsletter … Read more
Dental research doesn’t do any good if it doesn’t reach the clinician. That’s why the ADA created the Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry (EBD) to connect the latest research findings with the daily practice of dentistry. The EBD Web site provides on-demand access to systematic reviews, summaries and clinical recommendations that translate the latest scholarly findings … Read more