I have a special treat this week.  You can catch me saying the following in almost any clinical seminar: “Just subscribe to the Clinicians Report (CRA) and buy whatever they say is the best product”.  (https://www.cliniciansreport.org/) The biggest complaint I have about many clinical courses is that they take the time to tell you how they ...

We should all have time to implement one-minute changes that improve our outcome. In fact, I can’t think of anything better than a one (minute) and done fix. Imagine being able to eliminate a majority of problems that turn your office into a Donor Practice while driving your precious patients away. The obvious plus here is that you retain more ...

Everyone is looking for an edge. Everyone wants to lower their overhead and their stress level. Finally, everyone is looking for little known secrets of productivity. I think you will be surprised at how easy it is to eliminate one clinical staff position, meet OSHA requirements, and double your operatory efficiency. At some point in every ...

About a year ago I wrote the following in this blog. Maybe you’ll remember it. “One of the things that we, as concerned dental owners need to do, is create an alliance of independent dental practices and doctors that want to save Dentistry and move in a new direction. I’m proposing a group that will be called ‘BEST for ...

Once again, we are quickly going through poor clinical habits that make it difficult to for your lab to deliver a quality product back to you. As a reminder, your relationship with your lab is a partnership. If either party fails to do their part, the result will be an inferior product. We made it through the first five points last week, so if you ...

I am getting some great feedback from our Summit clients and our BEST for Dentistry members (www.bestfordentistry) about one of our alliance partners, Bayshore Dental Studio. The quality is great and the pricing even better. Just the other day, I was speaking with Jaimee Borden, their operations manager, about the wide range of good and not so ...

I was fortunate to have been a dental lab tech prior to and during dental school. In fact most of my dental school professors had me do their crown and bridge. Because I continued to be trained as a master ceramist and had a full service lab in my office for over 30 years, I had the opportunity to improve our shade taking systems to a pretty fine ...

I’m back with another look at clinical sensitivity after routine procedures. It has become common for Dentists to place a liner prior to the buildup of a composite. The original idea was to place something that would line the deepest part of the tooth to decrease cusp deformation associated with resin polymerization shrinkage during the ...

I want to take a moment and address a common problem that I have seen in just about every practice I have visited. Sensitivity and complaints following a dental restorative procedure is so common as to be consistently predictable. I would have to say that I can’t remember the last time a patient of mine said that a filling, root canal, or crown ...