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Tips for practice growth in difficult times
Carol Tekavec, CDA, RDH, offers a few ideas for promoting a dental practice that are not expensive, and in some cases, are free.
Kerr Composite Roadshow a Success
Multicity goodwill tour aims to build relationships one city at a time.
List of Web sites for companies offering dental practice recall systems
Here is a list of Web sites for companies offering dental practice recall systems from Dr. Paul Feuerstein's Enhancing Technology column in the May DE.
Category: 2009 DE May issue
Civility is not dead!
In her column form the May 2009 issue of DE, Dianne Glasscoe-Watterson, MBA, explains that a staff member may decide to leave a dental practice because of a lack of genuine appreciation shown by a boss. Glasscoe-Watterson suggests conducting an exit interview with the staff member and offers bosses some questions to ask for the purpose of identifying areas that need attention at the practice.
Mask Mayhem
With the growing concern worldwide over the swine flu (also known as the H1N1 influenza virus), how does this affect dental manufacturers and dealers? We asked several people in the middle of the mask mayhem, and here are their answers.
Life-saving information
As a followup to his Editor's Note from the April DE, Editor Dr. Joe Blaes provides potential life-saving information about how to recognize when a person might be experiencing a stroke.
Survey: The role of the implant coordinator
Here is a survey for implant coordinators to complete that asks questions about various duties/roles of the position.
Advances in cost-effective, quality endodontics
Dr. James Kulild discusses how many of the recent advances in technology have been used to achieve predictably successful endodontic outcomes in this Focus On article from the April issue of Dental Economics. This online version of the article includes additional text and art from the print version.
Highspeed handpiece maintenance procedures
From Henry Schein's ProScore Web site, here are procedures to follow and helpful tips to use in properly maintaining highspeed handpieces.
Delivering quality through your practice ambassadors a guide to customer service
Lynn D. Terracciano-Mortilla, RDH, thinks that if we encourage our teams to momentarily forget the ?dentistry? part of practice and focus on the customer service aspect of our profession, we will start to see higher quality produced from teams.
Short-term relief in the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008
The Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act was signed into law on Christmas Eve 2008. The act, which in part made technical corrections to the Pension Protection Act of 2006, primarily provides temporary relief to pension plans and suspends a retirees? obligation to take required minimum distributions from retirement savings accounts at a time when the account?s values are lower. Thomas Gore offers more details about the legislation.
Mobile dentistry (expanded version)
In this expanded version of the article by the same name from the February 2009 issue of DE, Dr. John E. Reese explains how to really improve access to care in dentistry by taking care to the people who need it, where they need it!
2009 PDA Conference
Here are the program highlights, program schedule, and registration form for the 2009 Professional Dental Assisting Conference to be held June 11-13 in Plano, Texas.
Matrix bands for primary and permanent Class II composite restorations (references only)
Here are the references for "Matrix bands for primary and permanent Class II composite restorations,? by Fred S. Margolis, DDS, FICD, FACD, FADI. The full text of the article is in the 2009 March issue of DE.
Chartless future for everyone closer than you think
According to Patti DiGangi, RDH, BS, health care in this country has thrived on technology, but the challenge of interconnectivity/interoperability still faces us. DiGangi suggests it is time for dental professionals to step up and take a proactive role in formulating the future. References are included for this article.
Perception of a smile
Here is a slide presentation of the Perception of a Smile consumer dental survey conducted by Nobel Biocare.
Chart auditing
Chart auditing can be time consuming, but it can also result in bringing back numerous, otherwise lost, patients to a dental practice. Dr. Ron Arndt and Mary Beth Bajornas, VA, describe good chart auditing basics.
OSHA bloodborne pathogens and hazard communications standards
This publication includes a model exposure control plan to meet the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration bloodborne pathogens standard and a model hazard communication program to meet the requirements of the hazard communication standard.
Balancing time in dentistry
Abhinav N. Sinha, DMD, recently opened a practice in Staten Island, N.Y., while also serving as director of the Pediatric Dental Center at Cornell Medical Center. How did he balance the time and not lose his mind? Find out in this interview.
Seeking a loan in today's economic climate
Bank of America's Cole Gillespie of the bank's Practice Solutions Group offers advice to dentists looking for a loan in tighter economic times.
Early diagnosis: A great marketing tool
Adjunctive screening technologies have made it possible to identify early tissue lesions that may become malignant, says Kevin Huff, DDS, MAGD, in his Quality Care for Oral Cancer column in the February 2009 issue of DE.
2009 drive for success challenge
Ronald F. Arndt, DDS, MBA, MAGD, MCC, and Mary Beth Bajornas, VA, talk about ways to overcome fear and misperception so you can achieve "Economic Freedom."
Planning associate buy-ins & owner buy-outs
Can co-ownership or "partnership" arrangements work? Yes, assuming that certain criteria are met, according to a chapter in Business, Legal And Tax Planning For the Dental Practice, Joining And Leaving The Dental Practice (Third Edition).
Hygienists and dentists partner to provide first line of defense
Here is the Quality Care for Oral Cancer column by Donna Marie Grzegorek, RDH, EC, from the January 2009 issue of DE that includes references for the column.
2008 DE-Levin Group Practice Survey (complete survey)
Here are Parts 1 and 2 of the 2008 DE-Levin Group Practice Survey. Part 1 of the survey appeared in the November issue of DE while Part 2 appeared in the December issue of the magazine.

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