Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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The Editorial Board

Preparation is backward-looking. The planning conversations practice owners should be having before the year closes rather than after.
Managing a difficult patient and managing your own reaction are separate skills. Practical approaches to both, and where the line is.
Where practicing dentists find clinical mentorship, how to make the ask, and how to structure case review that is worth someone’s time.
Synthesized answers are changing how patients look for dental care. What holds up is clear, accurate, current information about your real practice.
A sequenced approach to introducing a new clinical procedure: training, mentorship, case selection, scheduling, and knowing when to stop.
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.
Practice owners have more retirement plan choices than employees. The tradeoffs that separate the options and the questions to ask before choosing.
Dashboards over-claim and patients misremember. Here is how to build a new patient attribution habit that holds up against your own production.
A working method for pressure-testing clinical claims: what was compared, who was included, how long they were followed, and who paid for it.
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.