To transition a dental practice to insurance independence, you review every payer contract, drop plans in the order your numbers support, train your team, give patients clear notice, and set up billing so patients can still use their own benefits. Most practices do it in stages, not all at once. The order matters more than the speed.
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Practice Success & Leadership
To transition a dental practice to insurance independence, you review every payer contract, drop plans in the order your numbers support, train your team, give patients clear notice, and set up billing so patients can still use their own benefits. Most practices do it in stages, not all at once. The order matters more than the speed.
Yes, personalized patient care in dentistry can be standardized, as long as you standardize the process and personalize the delivery. The exam, diagnostics, treatment sequence, and handoffs should run the same way for every patient, while the conversation, pacing, and goals adapt to the person in the chair. Practices get into trouble when they reverse the two.
Learn how to set effective dental practice standards that improve consistency, patient communication, scheduling, financial policies, and clinical care. Discover practical dental practice management strategies to establish clear expectations, improve patient compliance, reduce missed appointments, strengthen the patient experience, and build a more efficient and successful dental practice.
Why do patients refuse dental treatment? Explore the common reasons behind dental treatment refusal, including cost concerns, dental anxiety, lack of trust, and poor communication. Learn practical strategies to improve patient communication, build trust, increase dental treatment acceptance, and create a better patient experience.
You build a better dental patient experience by treating it as a system you own rather than a reaction to whoever walks through the door.
Clinical Education & Innovation
Explore how extended platelet-rich fibrin (ePRF) and Bio-Heat technology can support ridge preservation following tooth extraction. This clinical case highlights the use of an autologous ePRF membrane and its potential role in maintaining bone for successful implant placement.
Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) has been demonstrated to be an excellent biomaterial addition to most surgeries performed in dentistry owing to its excellent biocompatibility, super-concentrate of autogenous cells, and release of regenerative growth factors over time.
Platelet rich fibrin (PRF) has been utilized in implant dentistry for well over a decade owing to its ability to rapidly stimulate tissue angiogenesis. Over the years, much progress has been made to more effectively concentrate platelets and growth factors as well as define their clinical use for the regeneration of both soft and hard tissues.
How to set written referral criteria in advance, so treat-or-refer decisions are consistent and not made under chairside pressure.
PRP has been utilized in regenerative medicine for over 2 decades. Noteworthy, the use of PRF has been commercialized in several fields of medicine owing to its longer and steadier release of growth factors over time. These applications are utilized for several regenerative protocols which will be highlighted in this course which will inform the practitioner from basic science concepts all the way to various medical applications.
Health & Wellness
Right now, some people are waking up to realize last month’s actions (or inactions) have given way to their new realities.
Instead of taking responsibility, they are justifying their “start to the year” by blaming the economy or the weather or post-holiday slump or anything (and anyone) else
Solo practice isolates in a specific way: no peer to check a call with. What addresses that, and how to get it on the calendar.
Judgment feels thinner late in a clinical day. What that looks like at the chair, and how to build a schedule that accounts for it.
Taking real time off is an operations problem, not a discipline problem. What has to be true before a practice can run without you.
Physically wrecked and mentally wired is a familiar combination in practice. What you can work on, and what belongs with a physician.
Marketing & Growth
Over the past couple weeks, we’ve talked about the fastest, most dramatic and sustainable way for you to add profit to your practice. The fact is most practices aren’t anywhere close to their potential. They are playing for minimums, baselines, and daily goals that are by themselves self-limiting.
Six numbers tell you whether dental marketing is working. Impressions, clicks and rankings are not among them. Here is the monthly review.
Referrals rise when you ask directly, make referring effortless, and give patients specific language. Here is a system that does not feel like selling.
Why Philosophy Matters as Much as Strategy When Choosing a Marketing Agency for Your Dental Practice
Finding the right marketing partner for your dental practice can feel like throwing darts at a dartboard. If you’re lucky, you’ll hit a bullseye with the first marketing agency you choose; however, the average practice will try a few times before finding the right fit. So, how does a dental practice choose the right agency when they all promise results?
When it comes to marketing, most dentists we encounter are simply frustrated. I can’t tell you how many times a dentist has told my partner or me, “I’ve tried marketing before, and it didn’t work.” Sadly, it’s a common experience — and we’re changing it one practice at a time.
Financial & Investment Strategies
Not all debt behaves the same. How to compare student loans, practice acquisition debt, and real estate loans when deciding what to attack.
Associate buy-ins turn on what is being bought, how it is priced, how it gets paid for, and what happens when partners disagree.
It’s the kind of conversation that shapes the rest of your financial journey—not just for some mystical future “retirement age,” but for every phase of life.
The transaction is the short part. A working sequence for practice exit planning, from operational groundwork to the final stretch.
Three things reveal whether an advisor works for you: how they are paid, what duty they accept, and what they can explain plainly.
