In early 2011, I had been in practice for about two and a half years as an associate dentist, and I knew it was time to move on and start a practice of my own. After briefly considering some purchase options, I decided to do a start-up practice. Financing from the bank was the next step. It’s been a little… Read More »
I moved into an apartment recently. It’s an older apartment, but roomy. In this apartment is a sunroom with a large window looking out into the Seattle summer. I like to stand in this sunroom from time to time. Sipping a drink or brushing my teeth or just to stand and stare after a long workday. The first… Read More »
Sales seasonality is the technical term for the fact that some months, from a business revenue perspective, are simply better than others, all other things being equal. At an extreme end, sales seasonality explains why a whopping 23.8 percent of jewelry stores sales and 15.3 percent of national chain department stores sales are in December (Source: www.NRF.com). New… Read More »
Last week I attended Hill Day with the Academy of General Dentistry in Washington, D.C. Some of you may remember from my last blog post that I had an eventful (to put it lightly) time traveling to Washington, D.C., last month for the Washington Leadership Conference with the American Dental Association. Thankfully I did not have any travel… Read More »
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton My interest in organized dentistry began during my undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida where a local dentist, Dr. Pete Lemieux, took special interest in my pre-dental club. As a nerdy science major, that dentist was a superhero in my… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the latest article in a New Dentist Now blog series, My New Dentist Life, following a new dentist’s first year experiences out of dental school. The views expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author and are not intended to reflect the views, positions or policies of the ADA or the… Read More »