There are several patient education apps available with new ones being developed at a rapid pace. The following chart shows some of the most highly rated apps for treatment plan presentation and patient education. If you are viewing this blog post as an email, you might not be able to see the chart so please [...]
With Thanksgiving tomorrow, it seems like a good time to discuss giving thanks to your patients and dental colleagues. How do you express thanks when your patients or dental colleagues refer a patient to your practice? I have experimented with various gifts, notes and ways of saying thanks throughout my twenty year career, but I [...]
Sign on the main street driving past my dental office. Sign on the front of our dental office building. Sign on the back of the building visible as customers leave businesses located on the street behind my building. Sign on the side of the building which faces [...]
Even though there are still two and a half months left in 2013, it is a good time to begin to prepare financially for the end of the year. End of the Year Financial Tips for Patient Co-Pays Dental insurance maximums should always be considered when figuring patient co-pay amounts, but this is especially true [...]
Operating your business within the framework of a more condensed schedule can yield maximal productivity in fewer hours and fewer workdays. I am reminded of a statement offered by my childhood dentist, “I can produce as much in 25 hours per week as it would take most dentists 35 hours to produce.” The data bear [...]
Today marks the beginning of the fourth quarter of the year. What is your dental practice doing to finish strong this year? Dental Marketing Reminders for the End of the Year October can be a good time for new patient postcard marketing. Families who moved to your area over the summer are settled in and [...]
In the previous article, I recommended working to cut your spending, but today I am encouraging you to consider hiring an associate. You may be asking whether these two recommendations are counterintuitive. If your practice is at a point where you can consider adding an associate, your overall production and collections can increase while your [...]
What I have observed to cause professional burnout in the overwhelming majority of cases is the dentist’s inability to control costs. This root cause is evident in both personal living expense and business overhead expense management. Dentists are thereby forced to earn significantly more than their desire to work permits. Therefore, not only must they [...]
An email scam targeting cosmetic dentists is spreading to the email inboxes of cosmetic dentists in the United States. Some of the basic facts and contact information is changed depending on the version you receive, but here is one I received just this week. I am not including the name of the doctor they are [...]
Image courtesy of Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Self-deprecation is not an uncommon theme with dentists who have been in practice for over ten years. Though many dentists continue to love and enjoy dentistry the same way they did the first day they entered practice, there is clearly a high incidence of burnout [...]