Culture
Beyond the Drill: The Future of Dentistry is Now
Digital scans, CAD/CAM and CBCT are already routine. What comes next across AI, teledentistry, genomics, patient experience and dental education, and the challenges each brings.
The Issue
Summer 2025
Contents
Culture
The Leader’s Shadow – Why Managers Fail and True Leaders Inspire
A manager ensures tasks are done and policies followed; a leader sets the standard and defines the culture. Why small tight-knit teams suffer most when the two are confused.
Business
Optimizing Your Network Fees: An Actuary’s Insider Perspective
Behind your network representative sits an actuarial team forecasting liabilities from historical claim patterns.
Business
Crown Jewels: Priceless Business Tips for Dental Entrepreneurs
You cannot expect a room to fill for you if you never show up when it is someone else's turn.
Innovation
Leading the Charge: Innovative Solutions Shaping the Future of Dental Billing
Dense policy language, shifting regulations and frequent denials make billing one of practice management's hardest problems.
Launchpad
Reinventing Brushing: How Duo is Disrupting Oral Care, One Tablet at a Time
Brushing has not changed since the 1950s and patients are bored by it.
Impact
Continuing the Conversation
A CPR class almost cancelled when the students went to the wrong location, and one nervous woman certain she could never do it. On Monday her coworker went into cardiac arrest.
Innovation
Class 2 Matrix Bands and Wedges Drove Me Crazy
Eighty-three million Class 2 fillings are placed in the USA each year and most of them hurt.