Industry News

Much has been written about marketing to moms, and for good reason. Moms are a powerful demographic, with many dentists considering women with kids their key target. How well prepared is your practice to reach the Millennial Moms in your community?

Where did doctors and team members learn to communicate? Certainly not in school! Ultimately, understanding how to effectively communicate with patients and even your team members can make or break any practice.

Every patient-practice interaction represents a chance to motivate and educate patients. Unfortunately, many dental offices haven’t written scripts for these conversations, and significant marketing and customer service opportunities are lost as a result.

The edentulous maxilla often presents with a range of challenges and solutions that can be difficult for individual clinicians to navigate. To help them make choices that best utilize current research-and improve the quality and efficiency of patient care-the Academy of Osseointegration (AO) has expanded its current Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) to include management of patients with no teeth in the upper jaw.

As a private-practice owner, you may not think you can learn much from the companies on Fortune’s 2015 World’s Most Admired Companies list. After all, they’re big – really big. So how can anything done by these super-sized, wildly successful, profitable companies possibly be relevant to a small or mid-sized dental practice in Smallville, USA?

An article published in the current issue of the journal Anesthesia Progress found that male patients required a lower dosage of a sedative than female patients during oral surgery.

Canadian dentists continue to increase their use of social media to promote their dental practices, according to results from the DIAC (Dental Industry Association of Canada) Twentieth Annual Future of Dentistry Survey.

Digital Esthetics unpacks the latest and most innovative developments in digital dentistry.

Chinese researchers have found that individuals with periodontal disease-also known as gum disease-might be at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. The report, published ahead-of-print in the Journal of Periodontology, found that individuals with periodontal disease have a 1.24-fold increased risk of developing lung cancer.

At times, embarrassing issues crop up in the dental practice. We have stockpiled a few of them that some of our dentists have shared with us. How about you? Have you experienced any of the top eight that are listed?

Embezzlement can happen in any practice. Even yours.

Ivoclar Vivadent has announced the winners of the IPS e.max Smile Awards, which rewards esthetic excellence to dental professionals using the IPS e.max material.

Based on his extensive experience with dentists over the past 30 years, Dr. Roger P. Levin has authored a new book entitled The 31 Biggest Mistakes Dentists Make. His premise is simple. As he says in the introduction, “We can learn from our mistakes. But isn’t it better to learn from other people’s mistakes?”

The new database is designed to save dentists time and money when dealing with insurance companies.

A dental practice employee embezzles greedily from her employers. Why did she do it, and how can dentists ensure it doesn't happen to them?

Why is measuring and preparing for seasonality important for dental practices? It could create major cash flow problems.

Getting high may mean new lows for dental health: A recent study has found that cannabis users suffer from higher rates of periodontal disease than their weed-free peers.

Why on Earth do we love to give scripts to our team members and then freak out when they freeze on the phone? How skipping the script can help your team members thrive and adapt in a real conversation.

Henry Schein's dental laboratory division, Zahn Dental, has acquired Custom Automated Prosthetics (CAP).

Chemicals commonly found in plastics and fungicides may be weakening children’s teeth by disrupting hormones that stimulate the growth of dental enamel, according to a new study presented today at the European Congress of Endocrinology.

Dr. Susan Maples is passionate about what she does and that dentists have much greater responsibilities to today’s patients.

A recent study has identified certain types of oral bacteria that have a correlation with the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

According to New analysis from The Pew Charitable Trust’s Dental Campaign, these communities enjoy fewer dental visits and preventative treatment than the white population and suffer more untreated tooth decay and tooth loss.

You don’t want to be in the position of the New York dentist who was fined more than $5,000 for failing to present proper I-9 forms for employees at his dental office.

DEXIS, LLC, a brand of the KaVo Kerr Group, reports that the American Dental Association (ADA) meeting notes include reference to a code for caries detection, which is appropriate for use when requesting insurance reimbursement for images taken with DEXIS CariVu™.

Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has been a concept that dental practices have struggled at times to understand and implement.

The Society for Color and Appearance in Dentistry (SCAD) is accepting applications for dental technician awards for their event in October, sponsored by VITA.

Nominations for this year's Top 25 Women in Dentistry will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, June 10, 2016.

Dr. David Sarver gave a lecture titled, “Orthodontics - How it has changed and what you really want to know!”

One of the greatest challenges in integration of Invisalign clear aligner treatment in a dental practice is to how to create a complete patient care protocol and all the clinical steps needed for implementation.