Please and Thank You: How Minding Your Manners Generates Patient Referrals
“You never know until you ask!” This is never truer than when it comes to asking your best and favorite patients to share your team with their family and friends....
Putting Your Practice Vision into Words
It has been said that goals that are not written down are only wishes. Putting words on paper for visualization holds tremendous power in helping us to realize our dreams,...
Google My Business for Dental Practices: Part 1
I’ve listed Google My Business optimization as one of the top 5 SEO strategies to deploy for your dental practice online presence. It’s time to talk about “Google My Business...
4 Things to Do at the 2015 AADOM Conference
The American Association of Dental Office Managers (AADOM) conference is only a few short weeks away. For the second year, I’ll be attending with the Patterson Dental crew and am...
Invisalign Marketing Materials For Social Media
One of the things that I really love about my job is the opportunity I have to visit face-to-face with so many dentists, orthodontists, and team members around the country....
Streamline Your Day-to-Day Tasks
I’m always impressed with someone who can juggle three or more items, especially when those items are on fire or are chainsaws. I remember watching someone juggle chainsaws and he...
Why Sitting Is More Than a Pain in the Butt
You did it! You found yourself working in a profession that you love! Congratulations! Welcome to the journey of extreme satisfaction and the possibility of pain and suffering you never...
Grow Your Practice by Getting into the Mouthguard Business
Did you know there are 35 million children between the ages of 5 and 18 who play organized sports in the U.S.? Did you also know the parents of those...
Fluoride Varnish: Is it Right for Your Patients and Practice?
We all know that good oral healthcare begins at an early age (by age 1, if we’re following the guidelines of the American Association of Pediatric Dentistry and American Dental Association)....
Preventive Dentistry for Your Office
There are several benefits to being proactive with preventive dentistry, and regular semi-annual dental cleanings are a large part of any good oral health care regime. These visits can benefit...
3 Common Oral Health Myths – Busted!
As an RDH, I hear a lot of “facts” about teeth and gums and I feel the need to set the record straight on a few of them. These are...
What you can learn from design competition winners
The Dental Office Design Competition, sponsored by Wells Fargo Practice Finance, Dental Economics and the American Dental Association, was initiated in 1999 as an inspiration and learning tool for dentists...
Get More Facebook Likes, Comments and Shares With These Challenges
These days every dental practice using Facebook is looking for more effective ways to get Likes, comments, and shares on their posts. Download These 5 Free Challenges… They Work! These...
What Is Your Dream?
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you were willing to do whatever it took to make it happen? Maybe it was that name-brand purse that everyone has …...
The Patient Experience – Feeling Good and Green
A good wait experience happens when the people, process, and place involved all work together. Green or sustainable design can be used intentionally to affect these elements.
Patterson Patient Take Home Bag
You work hard to help keep your patients’ gums and teeth clean, but let’s face it, good oral health starts at home. The products patients use after they leave your...
Growing by Giving
Studies show that supporting a cause that aligns with your profession helps patients feel good about choosing you as their dental provider and recommending your services to others. But how...
The Importance of Dental Team Education
As any business owner can tell you, one of the keys to growing your business and to having it THRIVE is to be constantly learning. Even if what you are...
3 reasons to implement hands-free isolation at your practice
Dental isolation has been around for many years but in the last decade there has been new, innovative technology allowing for a more effective and efficient way to isolate the...
3 Stats to Beat for a Successful Practice
Running a successful business is – quite literally – a numbers game. Not just one of dollars and cents, but also statistical trends that illuminate WHY your bottom line moves...
Enhance the Patient Check-In Process
Implementing technology to improve the patient experience and applying the most appropriate technologies to simplify processes is something I help dental offices do every day. Eliminating paper, clipboards and manual...
Healthy Dental Habits for Kids Start with the Toothbrush
National surveys have reported that 41% of children aged 2 to 11 years had dental caries in their primary teeth and 42% of those aged 6 to 19 years had...
Getting Green with Water and Energy
In the last blog entry, “All Systems Go … Green!” we took a high-level look at a couple of the sustainable design rating systems. Dental practices and equipment can be...
Summer smiles across America
For some practices, summer can be one of the busiest times of the year: entire families come in together for their check-ups, the reception area is filled with the laughter...
Finding work-life balance
Doctors Steven Ozer and Anne Norris-Ozer built their thriving Manhattan Beach, Calif., dental practice, Beach Teeth, while raising three sons who are now ages 22, 24 and 26. When their...
3 Costs of Complying with OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard
Let’s face it. Complying with OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard is a headache. It involves understanding the regulations, gathering SDSs, generating chemical reports, and much more. Because of this, many dentists...
5 Blog Post Ideas for Your Dental Practice
A while back, I talked about what it takes to start up a blog for your dental practice, and while setting up a blog is easy enough to do, having...
4 Paid Search Tips for Dental Practices
Paid search advertising can be confusing for those of us who are not digital marketers. In fact, even for those of us who are experienced with paid search, keeping up...
Understanding your Dental Lease: Relocation Clause
Over the past four weeks, we’ve been talking about important lease clauses for dental practices to understand, and so far they’ve all had one thing in common – they’ve all...
Take Your HIPAA Faux Pas Seriously
Recently, I receive a frantic email from an orthodontic client. A team member had emailed a patient’s diagnostic letter to the referring dentist. But the patient had specifically stated she...