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Many practices that do follow statistics go only as far as comparing their numbers with last year, expert range norms or what they heard their colleagues have accomplished. This is managing by hindsight only and leads to reactive decisions that do not ensure continued growth and progress. If a dentist and team are going to monitor progress through statistical analysis, a key ingredient must be SMART goal setting. This is the only way pro-active foresight can be applied to future success.

Looking to spruce up the design and flow of your dental practice? There’s a new ADA guide to help you with the process whether you’re refreshing an existing practice or building on from scratch.

Made from renewable, sustainable paper, Indigreen ECOtip™ Earth-Friendly High Volume Evacuator Tips are a high-performance alternative to plastics. They are said to provide exceptional stiffness, durability and function. The tips have a food-grade coating that virtually eliminates moisture absorption and fraying during use. Practicon 800-959-9505 www.practicon.com  

The updated CS PracticeWorks v7.5 practice management software includes two new eServices that are said to streamline reimbursement and online patient registration. ePostings streamlines the process of receiving and posting reimbursements from insurance carriers, removing the need to decipher detailed paper EOBs. eForms allows patients to complete registration paperwork online at home or at a computer when they arrive for their appointments.

Designed specifically for dental labs, the 3Z™ LAB 3D wax printer is said to ease the transition to a total digital lab workflow by integrating with open architecture dental scanners and software while maintaining surface quality and precision. The printer features one-touch simplicity to easily produce wax-ups ready for casting and pressing with accurate marginal integrity, occlusion, contact and anatomy form. It will produce crowns, bridges and copings with exceptional margins for an optimal fit.  

Kerox Dental Ltd. is a unique corporation with a long history of industrial ceramic manufacturing success. This success has allowed them to transition into the dental industry with amazing results. The company’s specialty product is an advanced Zirconium Dioxide that exhibits superior optical qualities through 30% higher translucency indexes.

It’s January, and everyone knows what that means: New Year’s resolutions. To be sure, it’s a good time for lab owners to assess the status quo, evaluate both successes and failures and set specific objectives to work toward in the lab during the coming months. This time of year also presents an opportunity to recommit to those strategic goals that may have been pushed to the back burner as more pressing needs arose.

The interactive Strada website is designed to serve as an online resource and dialog hub for dentists. It contains open forums for discussions on a broad array of dental issues as well as access to helpful dental practice tools, patient education materials and problem-solving strategies. The site will be regularly updated with content including patient education modules, dental news and links to information for dentsists, their staffs and patients. Pentron 800-551-0283

It’s the first episode of 2013! Let’s start the new year right with four amazing cover products… It’s Friday, January 11 and this is DPR Friday, brought to you by Align Technology Inc., makers of Invisalign.  

Winter 2013 is shaping up to be one of the worst flu seasons on record, and dentists and dental staff are encouraged to take precautions to protect themselves and their patients from falling victim to the outbreak. By establishing and following proper infection-control guidelines and limiting your exposure to sick staff and patients, you stand a good chance of making it through the season unscathed.

This week's new dental products roundup features a several of web-related tools and services, an apex locator and a chairside inlay system. If you missed any of these items when they were posted individually during the week, don't worry, they're recapped here with links to the original articles. And don't forget to take a peek at the video in middle of this article. CAESY Cloud version 1.3

An article today on Salon.com highlights the push for mid-level dental providers in areas of the United States that face a shortage of dentists who serve low income Americans, assessing the situation thus: “Despite its basic importance to health, dentistry has become a luxury item.” The article cites federal government figures that say 49 million Americans live in areas with an official dental shortage and as many as 130 million have no dental insurance.

A merger announced on Jan. 8 should help dentists and other clinicians battle oral cancer, as well as other forms of cancer.  Two companies that offer physicians advanced, clinically proven diagnostic systems that can help prevent cancer by detecting pre-cancerous cells just announced their merger.

To further advance their commitment to teaching better dentistry, CLINICIAN’S CHOICE will host a 3-day conference, April 4-6, 2013, at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas.  The Las Vegas Dental Conference brings together 3 of today’s leading lecturers and skilled clinicians in the areas of esthetic, restorative, and endodontic dentistry, including Dr. Robert Margeas, Dr. David Newkirk, and Dr. Gary Glassman.

The chairside Grandio®SO Inlay System is described as an all-in-one solution kit with all the matching components to fabricate 15 indirect composite inlays. The process is said to be quick, easy and saves costs of CAD/CAM equipment and lab bills. The kit reportedly can achieve the same high quality as lab or CAD/CAM produced composite inlays. Inlays also can be fabricated extraorally using the kit.

These are a few of the top medical emergencies that occur in the dental office, their symptoms, and the action the dental staff should take: 1. Syncopy (fainting)

It's the first Weekly new product roundup of the new year. If you've missed a bit of new product information over the holidays or just this week, the roundup will fill the void and perhaps provide you with some post-holiday gift ideas for your practice. Here's the latest new product information and links to more details about each of them: Viive practice management software

The Planmeca ProFace 3D facial scanning system is an option available for the ProMax line of 3D dental imaging units. It is said to produce realistic 3D facial photos as well as traditional x-rays. One scan generates both images. Alternatively, the 3D photo can be acquired separately in a completely radiation-free process.

Contemporary Product Solutions presents its review on this protective dental cream.

The January 2013 issue of DPR features four new products, including new practice management software, aligner material, a 3D scanning system, and an apex locator.

Dental Consultant and Office Manager Jill Nesbitt, MBA, offers up 10 fresh ways to put those older items to use in your practice.

Highly elastic SmartTrack™ aligner material is said to deliver gentle, more constant force to improve control of tooth movements with aligner treatment. When the aligner is stretched, the material returns more closely to the programmed aligner shape to improve tracking. 

The New Year’s resolution might be a bit cliché, but the first of the year is a great time to look at your personal and professional life and set some goals for the coming year. Setting goals will help keep you focused and help make you an even better dentist in 2013.

The Dental Trade Alliance continues to fight for the elimination of the medical device tax and is calling on dental professionals and dental product manufacturers to contact their members of Congress to demand support in the next round of the 'fiscal fight' taking place in February.

Along with the controversial and highly-debated Supreme Court decision that ruled the Affordable Care Act constitutional comes three new tax provisions will take effect in just 10 days. The three provisions are forecasted to generate $245.4 billion in revenue by 2019 to help pay for the 33 million Americans expected to gain coverage under the new health law. Among the aforementioned provisions is the medical device tax, which has attracted a lot of attention and still remains somewhat unclear about how it will be applied. 

The Atlanta Center for Dental Excellence reviews this automated marketing and communications solution. Demandforce D3 offers features such as: Two-way text message capabilities for patients to confirm appointments; intelligent newsletters that enable practices to segment the patient base; and a digital consultant that displays critical practice health metrics against aggregate data across the Demandforce network, highlighting areas for improvement. demandforce.com

AdDent Inc., a dental Industry leader based in Danbury, Conn., announced receiving ISO 9001 certification and compliance with ISO 13485, a globally recognized quality standard for the medical and dental industry.

With the end of 2012 just days away, we would like to revisit some of the most beloved articles that have been posted over the course of the last 12 months. The articles below cover a wide range of topics. We've chosen some of our favorites.