“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 »
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 »
One of the things that I miss most about dental school is the camaraderie. Love it or hate it, being surrounded by people going through the exact same situation is therapeutic in its own way. We all knew what everyone was going through, we all struggled through the same projects, and we all dealt with the same faculty!… 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 »
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 »