Prejudgment: Why It Stifles Case Acceptance and How to Overcome It Quickly
Do you know a dentist (maybe yourself) who prejudges patients’ ability to pay or willingness to accept care? Sure, almost everyone does. The.
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Managing Cash Flow to Improve Your Bottom Line
Cash flow—how much money is flowing into and out of a dental practice—is an easy concept to understand. But not every practitioner is.
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Recession-Proof Your Practice
Now that the economy is officially in a recession, is your practice feeling the slowdown? Many economists believe that the recession will be.
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Lifestyle Modifications and the Management of Hypertension
There is evidence suggesting that hypertension affects nearly 50 million Americans.1 A study reported by Vasan et al,2 which followed 6,000 patients over.
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Price Point Testing: How Do We Really Know What to Charge?
What is great clinical dentistry really worth? What’s it worth to you? Equally important, what’s it worth to your patients? One of the.
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Buying a Practice: The Bottom Line Method of Practice Valuation
I have been in practice for 36 years, for 32 of those years as a private practitioner. I have purchased and sold three.
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Managing Money Flow to Safeguard Your Practice
I first met Dr. Don Lewis, an oral surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, when he was presenting his embezzlement program at the 1996 Orlando.
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Modeling the Professionally Successful Practice
Dr. Cliff Ruddle, a noted endodontist from Santa Barbara, California, has often said publicly, “success leaves clues.” In essence, if something has been.
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Identalloy: Risk Management Tool and More
Most dentists take a great deal into consideration with every restoration they place. In addition to the occlusal and cosmetic considerations, they also.
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Common Sense Dental Insurance Management
In past articles in Dentistry Today I have covered a common sense approach to making financial arrangements with patients. The main thrust of.
