The Relaxed Dentist Blog
Practical insights to help you reduce stress, create happier patients, and build a more profitable, satisfying practice.
Find what you are looking for in the categories below.
Step away from the computer.
Lunchtime in a dental office should be for relaxing, not writing treatment notes. Doctors need to delegate.
What’s your time worth?
Trying to keep costs down may be damaging your productivity. If a material will make you more efficient, buy it!
Problems in practice
Problems will happen. It’s how you deal with them that makes all the difference.
Business success
Dental school teaches you how to fix teeth but doesn’t teach you how to run a profitable business.
Are we all on the same page?
Staff need to be trained to all give the same treatment explanations to patients.
Are you understaffed?
Understaffing is extremely common and has a huge negative impact on productivity.
How to have amazing systems
Great systems make your life easy and can make your patients say “wow”.
A dental disaster story
Running a formerly great practice into the ground. A cautionary tale.
Change your new patient form
A simple and important change to your new patient form will make a big difference.