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Closing the Gap in Risk Management

While talking with my fellow dental school classmates, I always tend to get the...

Dental Fear in the New Economy

“I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.” —Taylor Caldwell,...

Intentionally Being Better

OWNING A PRIVATE PRACTICE: MY FIRST WEEK On my first day of practice ownership,...

Nutritional Status and Corpus Deterioratum

NUTRITIONAL STATUS The overlooked (or possibly ignored?) understanding is that whatever happens invasively and...

Managing Our Patients in the Information Age

The field of dentistry continues to change at an exponential rate. From the introduction...

The Mobile Implant Practitioner

When my colleagues ask me where my practice is, and I tell them that...

The New Standard?

The New Standard? This decade will most likely bring another great shift in how...

Medical Consultations for Dental Patients in 2014

Due to the rising number of dental patients with increasingly more complex medical histories,...

Embezzlement Cases: Who is Responsible?

While browsing the Web under “embezzlement cases in dentistry,” I came across the following:...

Dentist to Physician Patient Advocacy for Health’s Sake

INTRODUCTION An advocate is “one who speaks, pleads, or argues in favor of.” Every...