3 Secrets to Keeping Your Teeth Long After Retirement

So you’re pushing the retirement envelope. Or you are thinking: What age will I pull the retirement pin.

Lots of people out there are telling you how to get your ducks in a row. But, nobody’s talking teeth. You use … Read More

Mid-Level Providers: Friend or Foe?

Since Alaska adopted the idea of the dental therapist as a solution to access to care, other states have been considering this as an option. The “mid-level provider” practitioner, as they’ve come to be called, can perform certain procedures, even … Read More

Seatbelts, Metal Spikes and Metrics

Day-to-day my task is simple: find more effective ways for people to grow their businesses. Depending on the client, place and time we often fall into an exaggerated sense of urgency. This acceleration leads to shortsighted thinking and unintended consequences.

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Corporate Dentistry and It’s Impact on Quality Care

Owning and operating a small business has long been a part of dentistry.  We are not given much training in dental school on how to run a business, how to optimize our websites or how to grow a dental practice … Read More

Demi Lovato Shaves My Head on National TV

How did Demi Lovato end up shaving my head on national television?

Well, my team at Southern California Dental Health Associates is passionate about giving back to our community. We participate in several charity drives throughout … Read More

Corporate Dentistry: What it means to me

Corporate dentistry is growing. I think we have all thought about the personal impact it may have on our practices and our profession. I worry more sometimes about what it means for our patients.

I have been practicing dentistry … Read More

Even Madonna Faces Denture Stigma

At this year’s Coachella festival, pop icon Madonna gave the rapper Drake a provocative, mouthy kiss on stage. Unfortunately, the kiss turned ugly––Drake’s onstage reaction was described as “disgusted” in publications like US Magazine. Even uglier was the media storm: videos and articles … Read More

How to attract 20 to 30 new patients per month

Are you ready to increase your new patient flow but aren’t sure how?

Here’s How to Get In Front of New Patients

If someone told you that 80% of all the new patients in your city were hanging … Read More

6 Reasons You Should Offer Facial Enhancements to Your Patients

 From an outside perspective, dentists are thought of as the men and women who know teeth. We’re generalized and often minimized as knowing crowns, cuspids, and cavities; and sometimes the pigeonholing isn’t only done by our patients- we do it … Read More

10 Questions to Build Rapport With New Patients

As the person who is often greeting new patients, I have, over time come up with some go-to questions to ask in order to begin building a relationship. I find that when I have these questions in my back pocket … Read More