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Enhance the profitability of your dental practice with Lean principlesHealth care providers today are feeling significant pressure to work more efficiently and streamline procedures in their offices. The pressure can come from insurance companies, patients, or the government, but the message from all parties is to reduce costs and avoid waste. For dentists faced with the pressures of running their own practices, the push toward greater efficiency can be internal as well, based on a desire to minimize unnecessary costs and keep the practice running profitably.
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ADA 2012: Closing ThoughtsThe ADA Annual Session has come and gone. Now that the dental community has had some time to recover from the major industry event that gathered more than 33,000 attendees, we'd like to take a step back and focus on the most substantial take-aways.
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How to make 2017 your most successful year everHow to use goal-planning to create and maintain a thriving practice in the new year.
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Get the most out of your intraoral cameraPurchasing an intraoral camera is one of the fastest, easiest and highest returning investments a dentist can make. A quality intraoral camera system can generate a full return on investment in as little as 1 to 3 months.
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Acquisition CenterThe state of the dental laboratory industry always has been evolving, with some areas evolving faster than others depending on the needs and focus of labs, whether those needs be to increase productivity, quality or both. We have seen porcelain, impression materials, die-stone and other staples make dramatic advancements. But while these advancements enabled us to improve our product, our techniques largely remained the same. We waxed, invested, cast, completed temporaries, baked and stained porcelain the way it had been done for many years.
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How to lease office space without getting cheatedWith the current economic uncertainty, dentists are questioning their commercial office space needs. According to Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, who has been a practicing facial plastic surgeon for 13 years at the Boston University of Medicine, leasing has advantages including increased flexibility, tax benefits and reduced responsibilities. Dr. Spiegel opened a new office in a Boston suburb and has been in his new space for roughly a year and a half. After much searching he decided to lease the space.
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Oral health in man's best friendDPR sat down with Dr. Jan Bellows, a board certified veterinary dentist and president of the American Veterinary Dental College, to discuss veterinary dentistry, and what that can mean for man's best friend.
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How to achieve a perfect fit for crowns and bridgesCurrent laboratory surveys and past data collected indicate that between 70-80 percent of the cases received are for single-unit crown and bridge prostheses.
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Are you sure about your cure?How Ultradent Products Inc.’s VALO cordless curing light satisfies the criteria necessary for today’s clinicians.
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How to properly place GuttaCoreGuttaCore obturators are said to be the first cross-linked Gutta-Percha core obturators to deliver warm Gutta-Percha throughout the canal system. GuttaCore is designed to create a dense, 3D fill in minutes, and the cross-linked Gutta-Percha core removes easily.
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How to jump start your cosmetic dentistry practiceHow to jump start your cosmetic dentistry practice and determine who is a candidate for direct veneers.
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When should you add more hygiene time?When it comes to growing your hygiene revenue, there is one common theme many practices miss asking themselves: “Do we need to add more hygiene time?”
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How to predictably place anterior dental restorationsDiscover how Ivoclar Vivadent’s OptraSculpt Pad modeling instrument makes composite placement less time-consuming and more efficient.
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How to: Help teeth remineralize, strengthenOffering affordable treatment plans to patients is especially challenging in t
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Are your patients stressed? Here's how to find out.Time magazine’s June 6, 1983 cover story called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties,” and referred to it as our leading health problem. There can be little doubt that the situation has grown progressively worse since then.
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Are you prepared for life after dentistry?When Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde wrote “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect” in the nineteenth century he probably did not imagine just how relevant this adage would ring true in the twenty-first century.
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Pizzi on fixed: Enamel filtrationCeramic layering is still the most critical aspect of an esthetic restoration regardless of the ceramic material used or the substructure makeup. Whether the base structure for our ceramic was fabricated by hand, CAD/CAM milled, or pressed, our ability to understand the layering process is still the key to success.
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Building a Strong Firewall for Your Dental PracticeA key aspect of securing patient data is a powerful firewall. Here we explore the best ways to build up a strong firewall for your dental practice.
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Prevention requires routine: Here's helpThe most effective prevention routines have both an in-operatory and at-home component. You and your patient are a team!
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Become an environmentally friendly dental practiceA positive trend occurring within dentistry is the adoption of “green” or environmentally-friendly strategies. These strategies include the selection and use of products that are biodegradable and have less toxic byproducts, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
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How to: Restore large interproximal posterior lesionsRestoring large interproximal posterior lesions with direct composite efficiently and predictably is a daily challenge for most of us. This task usually coincides with the removal and replacement of an existing, but failing, restoration. With the advent of newer dental products, materials and techniques, we now have better options to deliver higher quality interproximal dental restorations in a less stressful fashion.
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5 Reasons to Buy CLEARFIL MAJESTY ES FlowKuraray America believes it’s time for dental practitioners to experience CLEARFIL MAJESTY ES Flow. From the company which brought you the gold standard product CLEARFIL SE BOND, comes a remarkable esthetic composite in a flowable!
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The top things to consider when planning a new dental officeI can’t help but speculate that the aversion to performing a feasibility study is as much emotional as it is financial. Clearly, there is a cost factor that may dissuade the fiscally faint of heart-despite its proven worth.
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Edentulous optionsEffecting more than 40 million patients in the United States alone, edentulism has become a significant problem worldwide and has caused an increase in patients presenting with a broad range of functional and emotional ailments that add to the stress of losing their teeth.1,2
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Product Review: How to ensure your patients have a pain-free visit every timeA hygienist’s take on Cetylite’s Cetacaine Topical Anesthetic.
