For many years I have participated in and listened to the conversation about what type of posterior crowns people are placing, porcelain fused to metal or all porcelain. Before the development of Read More
PODCAST: Incorporating The Comprehensive Exam
Dr. Mike Miyasaki of HDiQ Dental interviewed me recently on the topic of comprehensive care. Our conversation covers a variety of topics including:My philosophy of comprehensive care. What I Read More
Staying Engaged-What do you do?
[/caption]Those of you that are my friends on FaceBook have been privy to all of the traveling I have done these last few weeks. Traveling is nothing new, as it is a routine part of being a dental Read More
What Are Patients Reading in Your Waiting Room?
Recently I attended a meeting on marketing your dental practice given by Kirk Behrendt of Act Dental Practice Coaching. It was full of valuable information including a conversation on reading material Read More
Barrier Protection for Curing Lights
My curing light is one of the most valuable pieces of equipment in my office. We would need to shut the office down until we got a replacement if all of ours stopped working. Given the importance, Read More
Gray Marketing & Counterfeit Products
I learned tonight about a trend in dentistry that I find very disturbing. I had no idea that gray marketing and counterfeiting existed in dentistry, much less that they are major issues. In truth I Read More
How Much Do You Give Away?
My partner and I went to lunch today with our hygiene team. There were lots of topics up for discussion, not the least of which was hygiene production. We covered the basic conversations related to Read More
What Role Do Finances Play?
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit on the other side of a health care decision and learn again a lesson about how I support my patients in managing the real life pieces of moving forward with Read More
Creating Value for a Comprehensive Dental Exam
[/caption]New patients join our office for a variety of reasons, and like most offices the most common request we get is to come in for a prophy. One of the things that I do many times a Read More
Leaf Gauge Maintenance
[/caption]I utilize a leaf gauge as a routine part of my practice to load test, identify first point of contact, take centric relation bite records and perform occlusal equilibration. With this Read More
