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The Dental Editorial
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Practice Success & Leadership
Clinical Education & Innovation
Financial & Investment Strategies
Health & Wellness
Marketing & Growth
The Dental Editorial
Practice Success & Leadership
Clinical Education & Innovation
Financial & Investment Strategies
Health & Wellness
Marketing & Growth
The Editorial Board
The Editorial Board
The Editorial Board writes independent research on practice growth, marketing, financial strategy, clinical education, and the health and wellness of doctors.
Financial & Investment Strategies
What Should You Actually Be Talking About With Your CPA?
Preparation is backward-looking. The planning conversations practice owners should be having before the year closes rather than after.
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Health & Wellness
How Do You Handle Difficult Patients Without Carrying Them Home?
Managing a difficult patient and managing your own reaction are separate skills. Practical approaches to both, and where the line is.
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Clinical Education & Innovation
How Do You Find a Clinical Mentor After Dental School?
Where practicing dentists find clinical mentorship, how to make the ask, and how to structure case review that is worth someone’s time.
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Marketing & Growth
How Are Patients Finding Dentists Now That AI Answers the Question First?
Synthesized answers are changing how patients look for dental care. What holds up is clear, accurate, current information about your real practice.
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Clinical Education & Innovation
How Do You Add a New Procedure to a Practice You Are Already Running?
A sequenced approach to introducing a new clinical procedure: training, mentorship, case selection, scheduling, and knowing when to stop.
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Marketing & Growth
Why Do So Many New Patient Phone Calls Never Become Appointments?
Most dental marketing does not fail at the ad. It fails at the phone. Here is why new patient calls get lost and what to change first.
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Financial & Investment Strategies
What Retirement Plan Options Does a Practice Owner Actually Have?
Practice owners have more retirement plan choices than employees. The tradeoffs that separate the options and the questions to ask before choosing.
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Marketing & Growth
How Do I Find Out Where My New Patients Are Really Coming From?
Dashboards over-claim and patients misremember. Here is how to build a new patient attribution habit that holds up against your own production.
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Clinical Education & Innovation
How Should a Dentist Evaluate a Clinical Claim Without a Statistics Background?
A working method for pressure-testing clinical claims: what was compared, who was included, how long they were followed, and who paid for it.
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Health & Wellness
Why Am I So Mentally Exhausted After an Easy Clinical Day?
Ownership adds a kind of work that never shows on the schedule. How to see the mental load clearly and hand some of it off.
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