Prologue
My Story
Seven years of dental and periodontal training, a year in Southern California and a second in Boston, and the dental dream still undefined.
The Issue
Winter 2017
Contents
Getting Started
3 Considerations When Choosing Your First Practice Management Solution
Practice management software used to be a calendar and a filing cabinet.
Getting Started
Do Your Homework When Purchasing a Dental Practice
Buyers who hit financial trouble usually overestimated the active patient count. How to verify it by chart audit sampling, and what else due diligence must cover before you sign.
Practice Builders
Dental Conferences: The Next Step in Your Continuing Education
Graduation is technically the last step and educationally not the end.
Business Fundamentals
Crash Course for the New Dentist
You leave with a skill that improves lives and no idea how to run a practice. The seven divisions every practice has, what you must be accountable for, and what to delegate.
Business Fundamentals
Leadership skills Need Attention Too!
You take CE every year to keep your licence and refine technique. Five reasons leadership skills deserve the same attention, starting with what they do for productivity.
Business Fundamentals
Rethinking Leadership: Flip Your Focus and Change Your Life
Nothing puts you face to face with yourself like owning a business, and in a growing practice owner soon means chief everything officer. The case for upside-down leadership.
Practice Builders
Ten Elements for Practice Success!
Thirty-five years of fee-for-service practice, spent shortening the learning curve for others.
The Power To Succeed
Chasing and Finding Balance
You can have it all once you define what all means. Putting numbers and hours against practice success, family time, health and spiritual life, instead of hoping for more of each.
The Power To Succeed
How Not To Fail Miserably in Clinic
Clinical education is the foundation everything else rests on. Three simple and critical rules for clinic, beginning with arriving knowing what your patient is coming in for.