Practice Management

Dental office websites often have financial sections that state, “You are responsible for knowing your insurance benefits, but we will help you file claims” or, “We’re happy to help you with your claims, but you are responsible for knowing your plan details.”

In mid-June, 2,000 dental professionals gathered in New York City to attend the Nobel Biocare Global Symposium. The Dental Products Report team went to the Symposium to hear about Nobel Biocare’s new product offerings, their new workflow solution, a brand-new portal for professional cooperation and charity.

Whip Mix has introduced MaxAlign, an Android app that digitally captures patient data.

When I moved to New York, I was still on the insurance plan of my company, which was headquartered in Oklahoma. What was a great benefits package in Oklahoma was slim pickins in New York City, and I was forced to choose between two or three dentists within all five boroughs who would accept my insurance. Naturally, I chose the one closest to me (after checking his Yelp reviews, of course).

Do you keep hearing about “Chip and PIN” (also called EMV) and the looming October 2015 compliance deadline, but you’re still not sure exactly what this is and how it relates to credit card processing in your practice?  

According to a new press release from ETI Digital Technology, Dental Wings h?as just released its latest version of their software, Version 5.0.

Let's face it and be honest here. We've all had that one job where that one person worked with us-and we wondered what was wrong with that person. I mean, he or she might have been perfectly nice and treated us perfectly fine-but there was just something different about him or her.

Heather Hennen, DAII, a member of the Modern Dental Assistant Editorial Advisory Board, recently had the chance to sit down and chat with Dr. Bill Dickerson, the creator of the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI Global).

It’s the end of your workday and you are about ready to walk out the door. You would ideally like to look back on the day and feel energized, productive, and confident in your leadership accomplishments but you don’t. Instead, you are exhausted! 

A recent report by the Scheduling Institute revealed that dental practices are losing money and business simply because of the way the phone was being answered in the practice.

It's time to recognize some amazing women in the dental industry! For the sixth consecutive year, Dental Products Report is honored to name the Top 25 Women in Dentistry. We will be profiling these awesome women in our October issue ... but we need your help to know who the top 25 women are.

Kevin Henry, group editorial director of Advanstar Dental Media, talks to Dr. Wyn Steckbauer of Oshkosh, Wisc., about the positive dynamics brought to his practice by working with the Scheduling Institute.

Coming up with marketing ideas can seem like a heavy chore, especially when it's not your area of expertise. But, brainstorming ideas for dental advertising can actually be fun.

I remember back in the mid-1990s, I was working with a company that was trying to bring a fairly new dental technology to market. That technology was digital radiography and back then, it required a Herculean effort to even begin to get it to work. I spent countless hours tearing apart computers and adding parts that would allow the sensors to communicate with the computer.

The world of medical coding and 3D imaging in the dental practice is shrinking every day, and Christine Taxin believes now is the perfect time for dentists to understand how medical billing can help grow their dental practice.

When asked about the biggest mistakes that dentists make when planning an office redesign or new office build, Dr. Mark Tholen is quick to answer.

Technology is a great investment for your practice as long as you use it. Using it, however, sometimes proves to be a tougher prospect than one would think. Too many times today’s excellent investment becomes tomorrow’s dusty clutter in the corner.

Having assisted practices with obtaining money through the EHR incentive program for the past few years, I regularly get calls from office managers and providers wanting more information about how to take advantage of the federal and state money available for using a certified EHR.