Do you have questions about dental products or clinical techniques? The ADA Professional Product Review is designed to help ADA members with purchasing decisions and patient care by providing them with information that’s userfriendly, unbiased, clinically relevant and scientifically sound. Each issue includes product evaluations conducted by the ADA Laboratory as well as collaborations from dental schools and… Read More »
It really is kind of cool how we all turn out so different. We’re all taught the same basic principles of dentistry after we take and master core health science curriculum and yet we quickly turn into very individualized and different doctors. How do you identify your core values and practice philosophy? Thinking back, a lot of what… Read More »
What factors into a patient’s decision to return to the same practice? What makes a dental visit a positive experience, even if treatment or care involves discomfort? To help answer these questions and others dentists may have as they navigate practice management challenges, the ADA Center for Professional Success in 2015 launched its Guidelines for Practice Success. This… Read More »
Carriers may utilize the services of outside vendors to negotiate discounted fees for claims paid to non-network dentists, according to the ADA Center for Professional Success. Here’s how it works: You receive a letter which states that if you accept an expedited amount as payment in full (less deductible, co-insurance or co-payment amounts in addition to non-covered items)… Read More »
Everybody was looking at me. Too many things were falling through the cracks. There was too much stress, and worse of all, patients were starting to notice. Funny thing was I thought I had started out just fine, and then I started to feel as if I had to push everything and everybody to the next level to… Read More »
As a new dentist, there are plenty of issues to worry about. But one is a thing you might not expect. Fraud. “I never thought much about it,” said Dr. Andrea Fallon, a new dentist who is a partner in a practice in a suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts. But it took an instance shortly after she started practicing… Read More »