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 […]
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100 Years of Dental Hygiene
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 […]
5 Reasons Your Social Media Marketing Has Stalled
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: […]
Revisiting Our Listening Skills
“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 […]
George Washington’s “Wooden” Teeth
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 […]