Community health dentistry: Saying yes in a world of noes

This morning I sat in a room full of 600 people. Most of them I didn’t know. We were all different shapes and sizes and colors, really only connected by a single logo printed on all of our name badges. In front of the room stood several important people, including the CEO. One by one, they told their… Read More »

Share your 2017 New Year’s practice resolutions with the editors of Dental Practice Success

What plans do you have for making 2017 your best practice year ever? Do you want to build, open or renovate a practice? Or get more involved with continuing education or organized dentistry? Or add more balance between your practice and your life? Whatever your resolution, we encourage you to share it with Dental Practice Success today at… Read More »

Parents: Ask these questions before co-signing a student loan

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a fall financial series of New Dentist Now blog posts from Darien Rowayton Bank, which provides student loan refinancing and is endorsed by the American Dental Association. Qualifying ADA members receive a 0.25 percent rate reduction to DRB’s already low rates for the life of the loan as long as… Read More »

5 things we wish we had known after dental school

When we first graduated, there were times we thought we knew everything, and there were times we thought we knew nothing. These raging fluctuations in our self-assessment were disruptive to our professional self-esteem. If we could impart some of the knowledge that we learned along the way, we think we could save some new graduates from a lot… Read More »

Photo gallery: 2016 New Dentist Conference

The New Dentist Conference — a customized experience created for dentists less than 10 years out of school — was held in conjunction with the ADA annual meeting, and hundreds of dentists convened in the Colorado Convention to meet up with former classmates, meet new colleagues and learn from one another. Here are some photos from the two-day… Read More »

What new dentists need to know about mortgages

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a fall financial series of New Dentist Now blog posts from Darien Rowayton Bank, which provides student loan refinancing and is endorsed by the American Dental Association. Qualifying ADA members receive a 0.25 percent rate reduction to DRB’s already low rates for the life of the loan as long as… Read More »