Dr. John Kois, the Kois Center
The Importance of Assessing Facial Esthetics: An Insight for Dentists
If the Boot Fits
2019’s Best Hygienist
Extreme Hobby: The Freedom to Color Outside the Lines
Study Club: Seattle Study Club, Kirkland, WA
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 1
A closer look at the Top DSOs: Your DSO fact sheet.
2019’s Best Hygienist
We asked you to nominate your rock star hygienists, and boy did you deliver. It was difficult to pick, but ultimately, we chose Megan Elsenboss of the Yale New Haven Hospital as 2019’s Best Dental Hygienist. We also would like to recognize two...
Best Dental Team: Dr. Scott MacLean Dental Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr. Scott MacLean’s team takes top honors! Dr. Scott MacLean doesn’t just hire team members for his Nova Scotia-based practice. He hand selects them. And while skill level is important, that’s not top on his list when looking for new employees....
Do You Have a Rock Star Hygienist?
Then we want to hear from you! Tell us in 250 words or less why you have the best hygienist, and we may feature him or her in an upcoming issue! Don’t forget to include photos of the hygienist with your submission. Send your nominations to...
Seattle Study Club
Seattle Study Club® set out 26 years ago to create a new kind of learning experience. Along the way, it became something even better—an amazing network made strong by innovative dentists like you. Interactive, life-long learning starts here....
How Much Are You Paying?
Little Implant Co. offers high-quality implants for $97 due to the way they run their business. They believe pricing is largely based on the way implant companies structure their business and allocate their resources (aka, how much money they...
Arent Fox
Practical Counsel. Unique Insight. At Arent Fox, opportunity is a function of creativity, drive, and talent. You won’t find a top-down management structure setting the tone at our firm. Because we’re not a corporation, we’re a partnership. You’re in the driver’s seat....
Full Face Assessment and Treatment Strategies Using Injectables
Register Today! Like a great smile, optimal facial beauty is all about proportion. While you can incorporate injectables into treatment plans to help patients realize ideal proportion, you first need to develop an effective face assessment...
LVI Global
This course will start you on a path to a greater understanding and enjoyment in your profession! An exciting hands-on course that gives you the tools to treat complex cases and gain treatment acceptance from your patients using Physiologic Based Dentistry!...
ITENA
We are the brand that provides complete and innovate solutions to dentists with products that simplify the work and make their practices more secure. Itena continually seeks to meet the changing needs of dentists around the world while offering competitive products in terms of quality and price....
BaseBone Biologics
Why is BaseBone a preferred allograft for dental professionals? Its patented, revolutionary washing procedure uses supercritical CO2 which allows beneficial extracellular components such as collagen to remain in the final product. This superior freeze-dried bone allograft is IDEAL for dental graft procedures, including implant site development...
Sunrise Dental Solutions (SDS)
SDS is an exclusive community of highly successful, practicing dentists who have succeeded through different paths, working as a group, to meet the collective needs of their clientele. This group approach involves coaching support, practice assessment, group planning, and in-office demonstration. Each member of their coaching team i...
Placing implants? Here’s What You Need to Know About Soft Tissue
Implants are replacements for teeth—they are not teeth. This might sound obvious, but it’s a simple reality implant surgeons must remember, as there are key differences between natural teeth and implants that must be observed. This simple yet...
Dr. John Kois, the Kois Center
Dr. John Kois started the Kois Center 25 years ago because he wanted to offer a learning experience that wasn’t yet available in dentistry. He used his passion for education and the learning process to create a graduate program for practicing...
The Importance of Assessing Facial Esthetics: An Insight for Dentists
Three key rules to consider for whole face beautification and optimal long-term results. Despite being a cosmetic surgeon focused on injectable based treatments, I have come to appreciate the importance of a beautiful smile and the role it plays...
If the Boot Fits
When Dr. David Little walks into a room to begin a lecture, his students can’t help but take a look at his feet. That’s because they want to see what custom-made boots he’s wearing this time, whether it’s the pair with his practice logo, the...
Bad to the Bone Part II: Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
Oral surgical procedures necessitate some degree of trauma to the bone in the upper and lower jaws. When the patient is taking prescribed medications that impact how bone heals after dental surgery, the potential for medication-related...
Extreme Hobby: The Freedom to Color Outside the Lines
Life as a dentist can be stressful at times, making it important for clinicians to find ways to relax and recharge during their off hours. To inspire you to do just that, we’re featuring dentists with “extreme” hobbies. These dentists take their...
Study Club: Seattle Study Club, Kirkland, WA
For 26 years, Seattle Study Club’s singular objective has been to serve as the preeminent vehicle for change that helps improve the clinical analysis, techniques, and methods dentists deploy in practice every day. Dr. Michael Cohen set out to...
Better Estimates, Better Results: Part 1
Using digital radiography to estimate pre-operative root lengths can help clinicians better evaluate endodontic cases. An estimate is nothing more than a prediction. It is an approximation or projection of something based on experience and/or...
A closer look at the Top DSOs: Your DSO fact sheet.
Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) represent the fastest growing segment in dentistry, making them an important part of the industry—and we think you should know who the leading players are. Heartland dentists have plenty of opportunities to...
Is Lack of Technology Killing Your New Patient Numbers?
Lost opportunities are hurting your new patient numbers, but implementing the right technologies can help you get more of these patients on the chair. If your marketing dollars aren’t producing the kind of new patient numbers you’d like to see,...
Want to Grow Your Practice with Social Media? Start with Your Why
Many dentists focus on how many followers they have, but that’s not the key to success with social media. Stop worrying about the numbers and start focusing on more meaningful interactions with your audience. Throughout our lives, we are...
What Do You Know About The Dahl Principle?
This minimally invasive treatment isn’t used often, but it can be a great affordable option for patients experiencing wear. The Dahl Principle is a technique taught in the UK but not widely understood around the world. There certainly are...
How a “Sink or Swim” Mentality Changed the Direction of My Career
I attended dental school in the early 90’s, a time when there was a wave of growth and change within dentistry. Of course, I had no real awareness of it at the time. I was focused on graduating. I was busy drinking from the fire hose of general...
Profile: Steve Anderson, the Crown Council
The fact Anderson doesn’t have a dental background actually has played a large role in his success in the industry. When he first started, part of his program’s appeal was the fact it didn’t just touch on what was happening in dentistry. When...
New Drugs You MUST learn to Master: Pradaxa, Xarelto, Eliquis and Savaysa
Doctors are starting to prescribe these drugs for anticoagulation instead of Coumadin. Here’s what you need to know about them. Much like for patients taking Coumadin (Warfarin), these drugs can be continued for simple dental procedures. In...
How I Grew My Instagram To More Than 18,000 Followers And Changed The Direction Of My Practice
Reality stars and an employee well-versed in social media helped this doctor get over her fears and grow her practice with social media. As in many industries, the rise of social media has caught dentists a bit unaware and changed the way we...
What Dentists Need to Know About Antiresorptive Medications and Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: Part I
A look at the medications that lead to issues and how you can combat problems in your patients. Normal responses to bone injury involve a complex system of metabolic processes that lead to remodeling, which is the removal of injured or necrotic...
Dental Technology: CelGro™ from Orthocell
A look at what makes CelGro, a non-reactive resorbable membrane, different from others on the market. The barrier membrane’s exceptional regenerative properties are directly related to its composition and structure. The porous bilayer structure...
DC Clinical
Worthwhile post-graduate education is priceless, so we decided to simply make it free. Endodontics, Implantology, Sleep Apnea, Esthetic Dentistry, Conscious Sedation, Orthodontics and more – all topics chosen to empower you with revenue-boosting...
Ghosted? No-Show Proof Your Office with 5 Easy Changes
No-shows lead to chaos and hurt your bottom line. You can significantly reduce them with these tips. No-shows are not simply an unavoidable force of nature. They’re the result of individuals making specific choices that leave you in a lurch. The...
Predictable Implant Placement in the GP Practice
The availability of various technologies has made it possible to “think traditional but process digital,” allowing more general dentists to integrate dental implant treatments into their practices. However, successful implant treatments are...
Extreme Hobby: The Need For Speed
How driving race cars helps one dentist relax. Life as a dentist can be stressful at times, making it important for clinicians to find ways to relax and recharge during their off hours. To inspire you to do just that, we’re featuring dentists...
A Must-Read Book! Digital Implantology
Gain a better understanding of the role digital technology plays in implant dentistry with this must-read book. The introduction of new 3D radiological equipment and more powerful, sophisticated software has completely changed the way clinicians...
Transsinus Implants: A Minimally Invasive Procedure For The Atrophic Maxilla
How to incorporate this three-step procedure into your practice. The possibility of rehabilitating an arch with a fixed prosthesis with predictable long-term success has been an important goal in dentistry.2 However, the rehabilitation of a...
Continuing Education: Urban Regeneration Institute, Budapest
Learn new perspectives in vertical and horizontal bone augmentation in implant dentistry through this course, and consider signing up for one of the many other educational opportunities the institute offers. Professor Istvan Urban, the clinician...
Profile: Dr. Howard Farran, Dentaltown
After 20 years, the Dentaltown community Dr. Howard Farran developed continues to grow, providing dentists with valuable information to help them improve their practices and provide better patient care. The Dentaltown message boards made their...
How Kinra’s Dental Value Brands Brings Real Value To Dentists
Monthly reviews from a team of experienced dentists can help you make better product purchasing decisions. It can be a struggle to stay on the leading edge, or to even know which products to invest in for your practice. With monthly reviews from...
Lake Como Institute
Lake Como Institute presents a unique and very practical two-day hands on dissection course for all professionals practicing or embarking on oral surgery and implantology. All lectures focus on what really matters and will be directly applicable...
Combining Cosmetic Dentistry and Facial Esthetics Under One Roof: Is This the Future?
The role, which I held for three and a half years, gave me unprecedented access to how the esthetics market is evolving and those within it adapting. Following this spell, I decided to head back into full time clinical practice, and I now...
Emergency Preparedness: Do You Have a Plan In Place?
While medical emergencies occur infrequently, they are 5.8 times more likely to happen in the dental office than in the medical office. Increasingly, more complicated patients are presenting to the dental office for procedures that are often...
Combining Facial Esthetics and Cosmetic Dentistry = Your Best Look
How looking at the whole face opens up new opportunities for dental practices and leads to better patient outcomes. Dentists have been dabbling in injectable esthetic procedures for more than a decade now. We have been talking about facially...
A Must-Read Book! Esthetic Rehabilitation in Fixed Prosthodontics
Dr. Fradeani’s esthetic checklist, which is included in this amply illustrated book, is an invaluable tool that guides dentists in creating restorations perfectly integrated from both an esthetic and functional point of view. Volume one is an...
Orthodontics or Ortho-Restorative Dentistry?
I have heard people say it is dangerous for general dentists to carry out orthodontics. If they don’t have an understanding of the full benefits of orthodontics and how to diagnose and assess, then there may be some truth to that. However, I...
Jeff Johnson, Senior Analyst, Robert W. Baird & Co.
Henry Schein, Patterson Dental, Align Technology and Dentsply are among the dental companies Johnson has watched since joining Baird. During his time there, Johnson has seen a lot of changes in the dental industry, and has enjoyed getting to...
What the Science of Influence and Persuasion Says about Google Reviews
Most practices have a love-hate relationship with Google reviews. We love them because they bring us a steady stream of new patients, and we hate them because it’s next to impossible to get our team to remember to ask patients to submit reviews....
Berman Instruments: A New Era in Dental Instruments
After 35 years of private practice, I am finally able to curb one of my biggest expenses. Although I can’t do anything about being ripped off for decades and overpaying for dental instruments, I now have access to outstanding savings and can...
Predictable Implant Placement in the GP Practice
The availability of various technologies has made it possible to “think traditional but process digital,” allowing more general dentists to integrate dental implant treatments into their practices. However,...
Buying a Dental Practice?
As a lender who specializes in the dental industry, I have worked with hundreds of buyers on transition into practice ownership. The vast majority of these have gone extremely well, but there have been a few...
ITENA
We are the brand that provides complete and innovate solutions to dentists with products that simplify the work and make their practices more secure. Itena continually seeks to meet the changing needs of...
Sunrise Dental Solutions (SDS)
SDS is an exclusive community of highly successful, practicing dentists who have succeeded through different paths, working as a group, to meet the collective needs of their clientele. This group approach ...
Arent Fox
Practical Counsel. Unique Insight. At Arent Fox, opportunity is a function of creativity, drive, and talent. You won’t find a top-down management structure setting the tone at our firm. Because we’re not a...
