All Systems Go … Green!
As you are thinking about your green dental office, you may be wondering, “How will I know if we are doing the project right to achieve our green design goals?”...
Yelp and Your Dental Practice
Yelp is a touchy topic to tackle. Emotions and opinions about Yelp’s platform are all over the map. I’d like to cover one little sliver … how Yelp can help...
Money Matters – Why Dental Teams Need Financial and Treatment Plans
It happens daily in dental practices everywhere. A patient is diagnosed and treated before fees and payment arrangements can be made, leaving the front office team member to discuss the...
Understanding your Dental Lease: Expansion Clause
Practice growth – isn’t that what every dentist wants for their practice? With practice growth, though, comes a need for your practice space to grow. This is where an expansion...
Educational Resources for Root Canal Patients
If you’re an endodontist, you already have a big challenge facing you – patient anxiety. For a patient, when they hear the words “root canal”, a pang of fear may...
Getting Ready for Green
There is no cookie cutter design formula for a green dental office. Successful green design is accomplished through a collaborative process between you, the dental practice owner, and your design...
Ditch Your Fear of the Discount Mailer Today with These Three Tips
You know those discount offers the competition sends out – $59 for a checkup and cleaning? You hate them, right? They steal your customers, right? Look. The biggest reason these...
The Patterson Endo Tray
We’re really excited about endodontics here at Patterson. So excited that I wanted to share what my ideal endo tray setup would look like. Here’s what our endo tray looks...
Understanding your Dental Lease: Termination/Restoration
For part three of our five-part series about the most important lease clauses for dentists to understand, we’re going to talk about termination/restoration clauses. This is particularly important for any...
Informed Consent: Make Sure Your Patients Understand What They Are Being Told
I can recall many years ago when patients would enter a dental office, sit quietly in a treatment room and allow the dentist to perform whatever treatment the provider deemed...
Dentists seeking bright green future
A bright green future is possible for your practice. Here are four reasons to ‘go green’ at your dental practice.
Don’t Manage Your Team… Motivate Them
I once had a young woman who worked the front desk of a dental practice tell me that she wanted to be an office manager because it was so “glamorous.”...
Understanding your Dental Lease: Assignments and Assumptions
Last week we kicked off our series about the most important lease clauses to understand. We talked about lease exclusivity clauses and how they can be greatly beneficial to your...
Interview with Dr. Morris – Being an Endodontist
Being an endodontist is no easy task, especially when you consider that one of the big challenges is breaking down the perception that a lot of patients have of what...
Online Review Survival Checklist
Doctors and office managers alike cringe at the thought of a negative review sprouting up about their practice. When it comes to online reputation, social media is NOT a set...
And the 2015 AADOM Scholarship Winners are…
As the Diamond Partner of the American Association of Dental Office Managers (AADOM), Patterson Dental is honored to announce the Annual Conference Scholarship winners. The Annual Conference, held August 28-30,...
Understanding your Dental Lease: Exclusivity Clause
The dental office lease is an important part of your dental practice. Over the course of your career it can be one of the most costly business expenses you have....
What Is Your HIPAA Compliance IQ?
All healthcare professionals would agree that maintaining confidentiality and privacy of patient information is of utmost importance. The requirements for maintaining confidentiality and privacy are strictly mandated under the HIPAA...
3 Reasons Patients Love Technology
Looking to invest in state-of-the-art technology to improve patient care and increase production? Fearful of how your practice can afford it? Take heart! Using proper training and great communication skills,...
A Power-ful offer from Crest and Oral-B
All signs are pointing to the fact that this digital health trend that we’re all witnessing, maybe even experiencing, is not really a trend at all. We are well on...
It Was Time to Automate Social Media
Much has been written on this blog and all over the web about the benefits that social media can bring to your practice. It’s definitive – social media isn’t a...
The “New” Facebook: A Two-Part Effectiveness Strategy
As most of you know by now, Facebook has undergone (and continues to undergo) a huge transformation in the way it handles business pages. Facebook has moved aggressively to a “pay-to-play”...
Turning 21 Has Never Been More Fun, or Educational
Do you remember when you turned 21? I do and it was massive. I was surrounded by a sea of friends and some other people who I didn’t know at...
Patterson Companies named to Forbes list of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies
At Patterson, we’re excited! Here’s why…Patterson Companies again made the Forbes list of 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. What makes this acknowledgement especially sweet is that Patterson has been...
Ensure Efficiency with an Insert Wear Guide
Just like your hand scalers, ultrasonic insert tips wear with use. Worn insert tips can significantly diminish your scaling efficiency: 1 millimeter of tip loss results in a 25% loss...
Now introducing the Instrument Finder
Similar to carbide and diamond burs, dental instruments present many unique combinations of shapes, sizes, applications and materials. Because of this, we knew we could create a better search experience...
Benchmarking Your Tweets
Tracking the success of your tweets is one thing. Benchmarking your success is another. In order to truly benchmark your tweets, there are a few things you need to do....
2 Common Social Media HIPAA Questions
We’ve been asking you to submit your most pressing HIPAA-related social media questions, and a couple came in that I think are important, common questions. Question 1: How do you...
Reputation Management: Do You Know What’s Being Said About You Online?
Today, 4 out of 5 consumers say they give as much weight to an online review as they do a personal recommendation – which means, now more than ever, it’s...
Happy Administrative Professionals Week!
This week (April 19-25) marks the 63rd anniversary of Administrative Professionals Week and it’s the perfect time to thank your office management team. Without your smart and capable manager, where...