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    What Dental Lasers and Early Cavity Detection Can Mean for Your Practice

    Wednesday, June 19, 2013

    Many dentists have discovered the number of benefits of incorporating laser technology into procedure implementations and treatments. Lasers have been noted to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of procedures and can diminish the amount of time necessary for treatment and recovery. Whether it is used for shaping a patients gums after periodontal disease or whitening teeth, as time passes the uses of dental lasers in cosmetic dentistry has become increasingly evident and popular.

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    Reputation Management is Key to Your Success

    Friday, June 7, 2013

    We’ve been contacted by dozens of dentists with bad reputations online. They have poor reviews, and know it’s hurting their practice. Enter Reputation Management For Dentists. When I speak to these nearly desperate dentists I start off by telling them ” your reputation is your biggest asset in your dental practice. It used to be [...]

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    Digital Dental Crown: The Modern Day Dental Drive Through

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013

    As children we were always told that in the future ovens would do all the cooking, clothes would dress us and, of course, cars would soar through the air. Well don’t be too disenchanted just yet; while we all wait for our hover-boards to get through R&D, new technology has sprung up that makes the [...]

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    How do you know when your Customers are lying?

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013

    If people tell a lie every three minutes, how do you know if your Customers are lying or telling the truth? Last month I was walking the floor of the California Dental Association event in Anaheim with Genna, a salesperson for a dental supply company. While walking we came across one of her Customers named [...]

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    3D Printing – Taking Dental Work to the Next Level

    Monday, May 6, 2013

    Three dimensional (3D) Printing is something which has recently experienced a sudden increase in popularity and can immensely help bring your practice to the next level. The printing process incorporates making a three-dimensional solid object in almost any shape imaginable from a digital model, through the use of advanced digital technology. The additive manufacturing process [...]

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    Sharing financials with employees

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013

    Most would agree that it is good to educate employees on how the business runs: how much money comes in and where it comes from, how much money goes out and where it is spent, and what is left behind and how it is used to reinvest in the business. Employees feel more invested when they [...]

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Mar
13

Google SEO and You

If you are reading this blog you are (by definition) aware of the power of the Internet to spread information. The Internet has fundamentally changed how people seek and find information, which in turn has destroyed the old ways of business communication like printed magazines and yellow pages ads. Actually there are two things which [...]

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Feb
28

Is Your Dental Website Getting Results?

I’m amazed at the hundreds of dental websites I have looked at that are difficult to navigate, make me work to take action, and are basically wasting air space on the Internet. If you have a website already, I want you to really take a look at its EVERY page, and ask yourself this question. [...]

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Feb
22

Top Ten Mistakes Dentists Make Filing Their Taxes

Lance Jacob of the Dental CPAs has compiled a list of the top ten most common tax filing mistakes that he sees his dental clients making. If you don’t have a dental CPA, contact Lance. Filling out tax forms with an incorrect Social Security number. The IRS computers will automatically reject your deductions and credits if your [...]

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Feb
4

Firing Strategy…

Do you have employees you’re not proud of? Then deal with it! The “how” of firing is typically not the problem. It’s the “who” and “when” that gets in the way. Business decision makers will tell me about a problem employee and how he/she is a poison to the operation and not living up to [...]

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Jan
29

Don’t Confuse Indecision with No Decision

Food for Thought is our way of sharing interesting concepts on corporate leadership and management with others who might find it useful. The thoughts offered are intended to be controversial and thought provoking. They always follow our motto of helping develop logical leadership. Do you or your organization find yourself wanting to make a decision [...]

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Jan
17

Video Marketing To Grow Your Dental Practice

As I work with more and more dentists, I’m finding out many of them are horrified to do video. They just want to get more patients and do what they do best. Unfortunately, to get more patients, you’ve got to implement a video marketing plan, as youtube is the second biggest search engine in the [...]