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Aug 7, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Bryan Laskin
Dr. Bryan Laskin Innovation, education and standardization: Toothapps | Upgrade Dental | Dental Standards Institute | Digital Nitrous 5mo Report this post Sometimes, innovation in dentistry gets in the way of itself. What do I mean?
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
drbicuspid.com | Melissa Busch |Jeff Gladnick |Linda Harvey |Bryan Laskin
Even if you have a five-star customer service practice, you'll still have patients who are deemed difficult. The difficult patient often upsets the staff, sends negative reverberations throughout the practice, causes stress and frustration, and can even cause a loss of revenue based on their behaviors and the amount of time you need to put in to deal with them. Ultimately, the goal is to manage and satisfy difficult patients as quickly as possible.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
drbicuspid.com | Jeff Gladnick |Linda Harvey |Bryan Laskin |Melissa Busch
A teen has filed a police report and lodged complaints with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and dental board because a dentist refused to give him the four molars he had extracted, according to a story published June 23 in the Benson News-Sun.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
drbicuspid.com | Linda Harvey |Bryan Laskin |Melissa Busch |Karie Neeley Anderson
The single most crucial factor in dental practice success is production. Some of the methodologies for helping to increase practice production are obvious. However, other production factors can contribute that are not as obvious and must be considered when creating an annual production goal to ensure production growth. Most practices take great time and effort to present cases; however, when it comes to following up on unaccepted treatment they fall short.
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May 13, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Tracee S. Dahm |Vicki Cheeseman |Brent Pohlman |Bryan Laskin
On April 22, 2024, an important event occurred for dental professionals’ licensure agreements.1 On that day, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed LD 2137, a bill that made Maine the seventh state to accept the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact (DDH Compact) license proposal.1 This adoption was especially important because the compact licensure could not be enacted without seven states initially accepting it.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Vicki Cheeseman |Brent Pohlman |Bryan Laskin |Amelia Williamson DeStefano
Oral pathology cases can pop up in any dental specialty, so sharpening your detection skills is crucial. Learning from your colleagues is one of the best ways to improve clinical knowledge so you know how to diagnose and treat, and when to refer to a specialist. Enjoy our roundup of pathology cases from DentistryIQ readers and keep these cases handy as a reference tool. Patient: 14-year-old female entering orthodonticsCongenitally missing teeth nos.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Adrian Lefler |Bryan Laskin |Amelia Williamson DeStefano
Effective dental web design is crucial to any dentist's marketing toolkit. A disorganized or overly clinical website can turn away prospective patients. The good news is that attractive dental web design doesn't require a substantial financial investment!Ready to elevate your dental website? Implement these carefully crafted strategies to enhance your site's appeal, convert visitors into new patients, and expand your practice. Let's make your website truly stand out!1.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Bryan Laskin |Annie Walters |Elizabeth S. Leaver |Angie Wallace
As medical and dental care has evolved, the connections between the two disciplines have become obvious. Care coordination between dental professionals and other health-care professionals has been identified as a pressing need to ensure quality, comprehensive care.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Tracee S. Dahm |Amelia Williamson DeStefano |Bryan Laskin |Meg Kaiser
If you have not already heard, a Dental Hygiene Compact license is in the works! Looking more and more like a reality, the dental professional compact licensure was first drafted in January of 2023.1 While this concept has been discussed in previous years, many dental professionals, health-care boards, and state legislation argued that the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the dental staff shortage finally pushed compact licensure closer to a reality.1,2 As of today, two more states must enact...
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
dentistryiq.com | Amelia Williamson DeStefano |Vicki Cheeseman |Brent Pohlman |Bryan Laskin
A newly published study in ACS Nano found something surprising about rodent teeth and could have implications for the next generation of preventive and restorative products. The enamel of rodent teeth has long been known to be enriched with iron, which was also thought to give them their signature brown color. Rodent teeth are harder and also more acid-resistant than human teeth.
