Culture
DE Spotlight: Meet Dr. A
Dr Franklyn Aguebor on self-motivation, treating patients in pain and cosmetic cases alike, and what months spent in other people's offices taught him to keep and to discard.
The Issue
Fall 2022
Contents
Culture
Designing Your Dental Career on Your Terms
You chose dentistry to change lives and everyone approved of the choice. What to do when the career turns out to be nothing like the one you were praised for picking.
Business
Top 10 Reasons Why Dental Software Start-Up Companies Fail
Twenty years and more than 750 dental software start-ups. The ten reasons they fail, and the one thing separating those that succeed: planning the course before the race begins.
Innovation
Investment Grade Communication: The Key to Building an Investment Grade Practice™
Communication has two variables and everyone forgets the third: how.
Launchpad
Weighing in with Dr. Sergio Valverde
An orthodontist treating adults alongside implants, recession and missing molars on why records and photography carry interdisciplinary cases, and what separates inter from…
Impact
The Hidden (Financial) Cost of Burnout
The Surgeon General issued an advisory in May 2022, and burnout has a WHO definition with three dimensions.
Impact
How to Accomplish the Impossible in Dentistry
Roger Bannister broke four minutes in 1954 and twenty runners followed within a year. Why belief moves first, and what to do about the voices insisting your debt will limit you.