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Aug 4, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | David Phelps |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
You work hard to have a productive dental team that provides outstanding service in a cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly way. These goals are important, but the key driver for business success, in both good and bad economic times, is profitability. Many misguided people who have not led or owned an organization may criticize you for prioritizing profits.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | John A. Wilde |David Phelps |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon
The leitmotif of my career is that success depends on an office’s ability to build positive relationships. Put another way, a physician mentor I greatly respect advises me that affability, availability, and aptitude, in that order, are the keystones of professional triumph. An excellent way to enhance relationships is to show personal respect and professional proficiency by not making people wait. Being on time results in happier patients, and this decreased tension benefits everyone in the office.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | William P. Prescott |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz |Ryan Dinubilo
Practice owners often wait too long before terminating a problem employee. When they do terminate someone, they risk legal action, which is why proper documentation is essential. If they do not terminate the problem employee, there could be the loss of morale among staff members who do perform well. Practice owners should always address disciplinary and performance issues immediately.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Joshua Austin |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
Dr. Alon Preiskel is a prosthodontist in the UK who, midcareer, decided to get his MBA at the London Business School. He is the president of the American Prosthodontic Society and has a prosthodontic practice in London. He is also founder of the Collaborate Dental Group. He spoke about analytics in dentistry and what he has learned since delving into the business side of things.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Joshua Austin |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
The acronym EDC stands for “everyday carry”—the stuff you carry on you every day such as your phone, wallet, ChapStick, and car keys. One of my favorite EDC items is my AirPods. Having a set of wireless, discreet bluetooth headphones on me at all times is great! Since I always have them with me, I will pop them in when I am running errands—walking around the grocery store or waiting in line at the post office. I never did this in the days before AirPods, though.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Joshua Austin |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
Invisalign has become a big part of my practice over the past couple of years. I went from not really doing orthodontics at all to being a Gold Plus Invisalign Provider. As cases finish, obviously retention is hugely important. I think we all have had the problem of relapses after ortho has finished. It’s one of those things that's a bummer for everyone. Patients are disappointed. We get frustrated. Overhead rises. There is no good outcome from failed retention.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Joshua Austin |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
One of my favorite Instagram accounts, @dinosaurdracula, posts stories and reels about junk food and sodas from the 1980s. Scrolling it is like reliving my childhood every day. Seeing the old vintage packaging and products makes me think of when life was simpler. Not everything was simpler back then, though. Recently, he posted a Cherry Coke from the mid-’80s.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Meg Kaiser |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
There are many things to consider before making the career-altering decision of hiring or becoming an associate. Yet some people take the leap without really knowing what they’re doing. How do you know if your practice is ready for, or even needs, an associate? How do you find the right one for your practice? Once someone is hired, how to you properly integrate them into the practice? And of course, how should they be paid?
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Ben Lee |Ryan Dinubilo |Mark L. Cannon |Pamela Maragliano-Muniz
Are you thinking about refreshing your dental office? Designing a dental office and operatories isn’t as simple as bringing in builders and placing some chairs around. To create something as unique as you and your brand, you need to explore your values and how you can create a décor that’s as strong as your dental skills. Here are five examples from around the world that display how good design can help shape your brand identity in the operatory.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
dentaleconomics.com | Gordon J. Christensen |John A. Wilde |David Phelps |Ryan Dinubilo
Q: I see numerous curing lights on the market that are significantly different from the older LED lights I have been using. I haven’t seen a lack of resin cure with my lights, but they require more time to cure than is being advertised for the newer lights. They have a 70-degree angulation on the fiber-optic bundle carrying the light to the resin, and the tips are much smaller in diameter than the newer lights. Are they OK, or should I change to a newer light?
