Restorative Dentistry Blog

5 tips for bringing new staff on board

As a dentist and business owner, your success relies heavily on your ability to hire and train competent employees. Here are five simple steps that will help you get new staff up to speed quickly.

Using LinkedIn to grow your practice

It takes more than just signing up and filling out a profile to get the most out of LinkedIn for your dental practice, but you can increase your office’s online reputation with a minimum of investment. There are both free and paid approaches to converting LinkedIn users into real-life patients. Here are a few easy-to-follow […]

Improve patient education with dual monitors

Patient education is an important part of any successful dental practice. A patient’s understanding of how a recommended treatment impacts their oral health correlates to the likelihood they’ll move forward with a procedure. Dual monitors can be a simple and affordable way to get this done.

Dental practice accounting tip: Get a grip on receivables

Learning to run your dental practice like a business can be an obstacle for dentists who have recently taken the plunge and purchased or opened their own office. If your accounts receivables list looks like it belongs to a loan officer, it might be time to revamp your collection process.

5 ways to raise capital to expand your practice

Managing the business side of your dental practice means dealing with capital expenditures, including figuring out where the capital will come from. In this post, we outline five ways to secure capital.

Is assisted hygiene right for your dental practice?

Assisted hygiene is a popular buzzword in the dental care industry. You may even be considering hiring a hygiene assistant for your practice. In this article, we’ll give an overview of the pros and cons of assisted hygiene.

5 things to consider before taking a business loan

Staying competitive in a rapidly evolving field like dentistry can be challenging. Whether you’re interested in upgrading your equipment, renovating your office or moving into a bigger space, sometimes the only available choice for footing the bill is a loan. Here are 5 things to consider taking a loan.

Alternative techniques for treating maxillo-mandibular atrophy

Maxillary and mandibular bone atrophy presents a challenge for implants. Traditionally, bone grafting has been the dentist’s primary tool when facing severe atrophy. A more recent approach is to forego grafting with the use of zygomatic implants or short large-diameter implants. While these techniques require a greater level of surgical skill than oral rehabilitation and […]

Don’t ignore the patient experience

Owning a dental practice where patients rave about the experience can be a big boost for business. As silly as it might sound, patients are just as likely to recommend your office because of super-fast Wi-Fi and tasty coffee as they are to mention chairside CAD or your new CO2 laser. Ignoring these seemingly details […]

Faster patient processing for your practice

Getting patients in-and-out of your office as quickly as possible is a win-win scenario. Busy patients love it and the more patients you see the faster your practice grows. How many of these efficiency practices are you taking advantage of at your dental practice?