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Survey sheds light on differences between millennial and baby boomer investors.

A new survey looked at a variety of factors to determine which states have the best sense of wellbeing. Their answers might surprise you.

Facebook can be a valuable marketing tool­ for dental practices-if you know how to make the best of it. .

The XyliMelts® adhering discs provide the best dry mouth remedy, according to a recent survey.

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.

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.

This step-by-step technique from Dr. Neal Patel and Marina Caponigro, MDT shows how digital tools from Sirona Dental can be used to create incredible surgical guides.

This step-by-step technique from Dr. Neal Patel and Marina Caponigro, MDT shows how digital tools from Sirona Dental can be used to create incredible surgical guides.

Filing insurance claims can be a complex, strenuous and time-consuming task in a dental office. With a variety of companies playing key roles in a practice’s success, timely responses and organized statements are vital to the continued growth of the office. Eaglesoft offers an electronic solution to filing reports, making the process of handling insurance claims quicker, easier and more efficient for every office.

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.

Stress is so prevalent for practice owners and teams, you may think it’s an unavoidable occupational hazard. In fact, though it can’t be eliminated completely-there will always be “challenging” days at the office-you can radically reduce stress and the negative feelings, fatigue and general dissatisfaction it can cause.

As hygienists, infection control and the safety of our patients is a top priority. But are you and your office up to date on infection control protocols and required infection control training? Here are five infection control mistakes you might be making and not even realize.

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If you don't watch your back, you can find yourself in some scary situations. It's true in horror films, and it's true in your investing career.

Our weekly look at the top dentistry-related news from across the web.

Public health officials are on high alert as many say the nation's opioid abuse problem has become an epidemic. What role do dentists play in the problem? What should dentists do to help solve the problem? Please take our DMD Survey and share your thoughts!

You walk out to the reception area to greet your next patient for their prophy. Due to your attention to detail, as the patient approaches, you notice an active herpes simplex lesion on their lip (herpes labialis). Should you treat this patient?

Frequent flyers have many reasons to be unhappy these days. A new report outlines their biggest likes and dislikes.

With innovation comes great advancement. Find out how these companies partner with you to push the dental industry forward.

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.

In this list, members of the dental team explain why every dental practice ought to consider converting to digital impressions.

A Nebraska dentist alleges the city administrator barged into his office at the start of business last month and assaulted and berated the dentist.

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.

In this Product Benchmark, Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA, CDD explains how Ultradent's Opalescence Go can be used to whiten teeth in pediatric patients, restoring confidence and smiles.

Dental team members are paid to perform daily, correct? So how do you balance the employee engagement with the accountability each day to the numbers and the goals of the practice? Dr. Tarun Agarwal explains.

If you keep having nightmares about your investment portfolio, fear not. Follow these tips to keep yourself one step ahead.

Long lines aren't the only thing to worry about when planning your theme park trip. Here are eight ways to save your sanity when you enter magical kingdoms.

Dental offices have been slow to adopt electronic health records, in part because they haven't had the same regulatory incentives as physicians. But the software can bring benefits to dental practices, even if they're not required.

Online job hunting can be hard and intimidating for the novice, but there are five basic steps that will make you look like a pro.