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The GNYDM returns next week at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, with the Exhibit Hall Open Dec. 1-4.

Dental Products Report’s Product Solution Center Returns at the 100th GNYDM

The historic 160th Midwinter Meeting returns to Chicago, Feb. 20-22, 2025, at McCormick Place West.
 


Registration is Now Open for CDS’ 160th Midwinter Meeting

Designed to deliver unrivaled strength and durability for restorations, the splitting protocol means less time on overall production and more time for the art of the restoration.

Panthera Dental Introduces New Panthera Fusion Bar

Bruce Bryen is a certified public accountant with over 45 years of experience and is a part of Baratz & Associates CPAs. He specializes in deferred compensation, such as retirement planning design; income and estate tax planning; determination of the proper organizational business structure; asset protection and structuring loan packages for presentation to financial institutions. He is experienced in providing litigation support services to dentists with Valuation and Expert Witness testimony in matrimonial and partnership dispute cases. He is also a financial writer for several dental journals. You may contact him at 609-502-0691 or at 

In this month’s column, the author shares opportunities to secure an advantage to both the seller and the buyer.

There Are Ways to Reduce Taxes to the Seller and Payer When a Dental Practice is Sold

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Using a saddle stool and alternating between sitting and standing are just 2 important ways the dental staff can strive for good posture and better health. 

Finding Balance: Sitting vs. Standing for Dental Professionals

Incorporating new habits in your life doesn’t have to be challenging. Here are a few key ways to introduce healthy habits into your daily routine. 

Revolutionize Your Routines: Habit Stacking for Dental Hygienists

Dental professionals can find value in putting ergonomics at the forefront, saving their physical bodies and the longevity of their practice.

Optimizing Ergonomics: A Guide to Creating a Healthy Work Environment for Dental Hygienists

A new convertible chair will enable clinicians to move around the operatory with ease, all while reducing ergonomic strain for long hours. 

New Convertible Chair Designed for Flexibility and Comfort

Cultivating good time management skills mitigates stress in the dental office. So, how do we harness these skills while also providing effective dental care for patients?

Beat the Clock: A Hygienist’s Guide to Stress-Free Time Management

An interview at GNYDM 2023 with Irene Iancu. 

Greater New York Dental Meeting 2023 - Interview with Irene Iancu, BSc, RDH, CTDP, OM

Hi, my name is Irene Iancu. I'm a restorative dental hygienist from Toronto, Canada. And I just presented on a product that is revolutionizing the way that we practice in dentistry. If you wear loupes and you wear standard telescopes, you know that although your magnification is great, and your posture may be great, you may also be still suffering with head and neck pain because of the angle of declination and bringing your chin down and forward designs for vision and I just presented on the incorporation of ergonomic loops into everyday practice. What these loupes do is they bring your chin up, they posture back, because you're looking for a prism, which means you're looking straight down at your patient, instead of having to bring your chin down in the line of vision. Generally, what you're doing is you're looking up and forward into a prism that will then show you your working field below. It's kind of like using a microscope, but the microscope is attached to your loupes. I had a really great presentation with a room full of people that were all humming and hawing and doing their neck stretches because they perhaps can sympathize with the pain that I suffered before I went into working with ergonomic loupes. 

If you'd like to learn more about how to use these you can find out about them in 2 places: one on my instagram 

 has a lot of links for other products and how to get in touch with the sales rep for a 60-day free trial. That's right, no money, no strings, no nothing, 60 days free loupes, and if you don't like them, you can send them back so you basically have nothing to lose. 

As a Canadian. I'm always very excited to come to the Greater New York Meeting because of how big it is. I'm so excited to walk the show floor see all of the new products and perhaps figure out what deals I can get my hands on to bring back to my practice.

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At the Greater New York Dental Meeting 2023, Dental Products Report had a chat with presenter, educator, and clinician Irene Iancu, BSc, RDH, CTDP, OMG, to talk about Infinity VUE Loupes from Designs for Vision. [2 minutes]

Greater New York Dental Meeting 2023

In just 180 seconds, dental practice coach Mike Massotto offers advice and tips to help your practice enhance its operations. 

  Therapy in 3 Minutes - Clinical Spaces: Finding Your Flow

Mike Massotto: So, I'm not an architect, you know, so everybody has their own personal feelings about how they want their office set up and how they want things to go back there. ButI'm a big believer in flow, right? We even have a thing, a position in our practice called Flow coordinator. You know, we've been in most practices to give the name of that person, the floater, okay. I don't ever use the word floater in my program, float or something, you find the river, this is [New] Jersey, by the way, so you know, we don't think it's a good thing to have a floater in your office, right? So, what I want to do a call this person an MVP, you know, they're making sure that there's a good connection between the front of the back and things are moving and flowing, right.

People and paper, you know, are the things that flow through your practice, right, that'swhat's happening, money, charts, if you're digital, fantastic. All right. But you want to keep that flowing, and the quicker things flow, the better things run in the practice, right? So, I love open bays, you know, or the ability to open bays and rooms that are all connected like that. That's my personal preference. I mean, it can be partially open connected like that. Which is really cool, if you want if you can set it up that particular way. But that's a personal preference. You know, I like that, taking out as many walls and doors and stuff as possible, right? It makes it easier for communication, having a communication system. A lot of offices don't even do it, but when there's no shouting and yelling and whatever because that is done via a sound system, a lot of doctors love that they can hear the cute chatter going on between each other, but the patients don't hear that conversation going on. Which is a nice thing, right?

But how do you lay this whole thing out? Right? The flow of energy and people of paper through your office is really really critical. Right? And you don't want to cramped, you don't you want it too open. You want easy to access in and out of rooms, because doctors have to be moving in out of rooms, hygienists [are] moving in and out of rooms, right? And there'sa reason why again, an ortho bay, everything's open like that, right, they got to be able to move, move and shake quickly when they go from person to person, right. But even in general practice, if you have the ability, and again, sometimes we're limited by our space, sometimes you gotta get creative.

There are architects and there are companies out there that can help design this and pick one that understands dental practices. I can't tell you how many offices I've seen that were built by builders that look nice, okay, but they would they have no idea how a dental office works and flows. So, it's so important to have a companies that understand and know how to lay out dental practices. And you may not even realize, you know, I never thought of that I never thought of that particular idea because they bring these ideas to the table to make life easier. Because once the things are built and once you set up that way, you're stuck, right? And then you are gonna go back and tear things down and redo it. I mean,it's better to do it right the first time. Well, ifyou're going togo and make some changes,that's a bigparticular area, maximizingutilizing your square footage, right in terms of the rooms becausethat's what you got, right? You got to know things you got to work with it, especially in Manhattan whenyou're working in some of these offices are 500 square feet.It's like you step out of the front andyou're into an office andthat's all it is. Right? So again, space management and how you lay things out how you have things setup critical.

In just 180 seconds, dental practice coach Mike Massotto offers advice and tips to help your practice enhance its operations. In this episode, Mike talks about finding the best flow for your dental practice and clinical space. 

Practice Design

Therapy in 3 Minutes - Clinical Spaces: Finding Your Flow

This video was originally published on Medical World News, an online medical industry news service from MJH Life Sciences. Medical World News videos are always streaming on the Dental Products Report home page, and can also be accessed here: 

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