Practice Management

Great Minds, Inc., and Rae Dental Management have launched a new product for dental practices looking for statistics to help make better decisions about their PPO dental plans. The PPO Analyzer for Dentrix is an easy-to-use report that gives the office a snapshot of how their PPO dental plans are affecting their practices’ productivity and profitability.

Don’t let your practice management system confine you to your office, or worse yet, your desktop. Too often you need to access patient data from someplace other than your office.

DentalCAD, the CAD software from EGS, has released a new version with its 4.0 update.

In this installment of “I Use That,” we asked Dr. Gary Yanowitz and his office manager, Maria Scheer, about their use of Sesame Communications and Healthgrades.

National Tooth Fairy Day is Friday, Aug. 22, and according to Visa’s annual Tooth Fairy survey, American children are receiving an average of $3.40 per lost tooth this year. That’s down 8 percent from last year but still up a hefty 31 percent from the $2.60 left in 2011.

In the last couple of years, almost every tech lover, from the casual user to the hardcore gear head, has been inundated with a serious dose of “The Cloud”.  

The relationship is well established: When a dentist needs restorations crafted, the work is outsourced to a dental lab. In most instances, the case leaves the dentist’s office for work across town – or maybe even across the country – coming back a few days or weeks later for final placement with the patient.

The Annual Speaking Consulting Network conference recently took place in Tampa, Fla., where the first ever Linda Miles Spirit Award was given to Bete Johnson. At this conference, dental practice management consultants, speakers and writers help each other enhance their business and share values. Keep reading to see the values that the SCN prides in their award winner, and details for their 2015 conference.

During the recent Henry Schein Practice Solutions technology summit in Park City, Utah, Dental Products Report got a sneak peek at some of the new products that will be coming out in late 2014 and early 2015, including Dentrix G6.

During the recent California Dental Association fall meeting in San Francisco, DEXIS launched DEXIS™ Mac, a new software that integrates the true functionality of Apple products that Mac users crave with the functionality of the renowned DEXIS imaging system.

Digital marketing may get all the attention these days, but experts say there’s a simple, old-school tactic that still rules when it comes to bringing in new patients.

As more dental professionals adopt digital scanning, user experience is more important than ever. With that in mind, 3M Digital Oral Care has announced technological transformations to the 3M True Definition Scanner.

Traditional dental labs are today pressured from many sides-in-clinic milling, price competition and regulatory demands all pose serious threats to their future business efforts. Luckily, digital technologies are already providing direct answers to counter these upsetting realities. By going digital, labs can push right back.

  When I first introduce the topic of tracking software to dental practices, there are two responses I frequently encounter. Dental team members often think, “Oh no, it’s Big Brother,” while dentists wonder what a product like OnTrack can do that their existing practice management software cannot.