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Where are you in the life cycle of your dental practice? Are you a start-up? A mature practice? A preparing-to-transition practice? In every case, there are important, easy-to-execute strategies that can help make the transitioning period shorter and the valuation and potential selling price of […]
This year marks the 100th year of the dental hygienist. When I look at the profession today, vs. what the profession was when I graduated from Northwestern University School of Dental Hygiene in 1976, I can hardly believe all the changes. White caps, white uniforms […]
Once practices make the decision to get on board with social media, they generally do so with gusto. However, whether they stay motivated may or may not happen … What are the reasons some practices’ social marketing programs stall? Here are a few common challenges: […]
“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak,” said almost everyone’s mother at some point in childhood. But how true! I really didn’t pay too much attention to that phrase as a child, but as I […]
During the French Revolution, several eminent dentists fled to the United States. The leading figure in dentistry around the turn of the century was a man named John Greenwood, a self-proclaimed “surgeon dentist and operator for the teeth.” Records show that Greenwood’s most famous patient […]