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Oral Analgesics for Acute Dental Pain

Acute pain is the most common complaint that causes patients to seek help from...

Benefits of the Dual-Arch Impression Technique: Accurate Impressions and Fewer Than 1% Remakes

The dual-arch or double-arch impression technique is extremely accurate and a viable alternative to...

Save a Life in 3 Minutes

How often have you wondered what you could do to contribute to the lives...

How to Eliminate No-shows, Cancellations, and Accounts Receivable

In an ideal practice, patients make their appointments, show up for them, and pay...

Incorporating Tooth Whitening Into Your Practice

In today’s society, white teeth send a message of youth, health, and success. White...

Contact—Wired to Win: Computer-Driven Communication

You’ve got a captive audience out there. Patient loyalty is yours for the taking,...

Ergonomics in Dentistry, Part 2

In the first part of this two-part series, the growing problem of musculoskeletal disorders...

Protecting the Next Generation: The Dental Hygienist’s Role in Managing Periodontal Disease as a Risk Factor for Low-Birth-Weight Babies

How do you serve your pregnant patients? Do you serve them at all? Do...

Practice Marketing and the “Chain of Success”

Proper marketing techniques for the dental practice are critical to its long-term success. Dental...

PC Dependency: The Dark Side

Tech authors, myself included, frequently extol the prospects of expanding your office PC’s role...