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Insights & Deep Dives.
Practical thinking on case acceptance and efficiency. Select articles by length or topic.
Successful staff meetings
Effective staff meetings are vital to running a successful dental office.
Excellence through guesswork
Guesswork is very helpful (maybe even essential) in running your practice successfully.
Why discounts don’t work
Discounting attracts the wrong patients, scares away the right ones, and makes your loyal regulars quietly furious. Four reasons to hold your fees firm.
A niche. Who says I need one?
Do you need a niche or is it better to do a little bit of everything?
Multiple dental practices. Worth it?
Do you own multiple practices? It may be time to rethink.
Sunk-cost fallacy in dental practice
Watch out for the sunk-cost fallacy. It’s a productivity killer.
Biggest ever productivity boost
Does 6-handed dentistry work or is it an expensive luxury?
Breaking in new boots
In order to master a new skill you need to be uncomfortable for a while. That’s just how it is. Get over it.
Why boredom is good for you.
Boredom is helpful. Not filling every moment of the day with activity makes you more creative.
Do you get failed appointments?
In my daily practice there was one thing that always upset me — failed appointments. What to do about it?
Of course, they are both right
When I talk with dentists about how they can move their practices in the direction of their goals, broadly-speaking I get one of two responses.