When Ethics and Law Collide with Professionalism
Ethical decision-making processes can be taught in organized courses of study. However, dentists often face circumstances in caring for their patients...
Kevin Huff | 4 years ago ›Balancing Previous Patient Experience with Appropriate Diagnosis
How do you decide when to comply with the patient's request to extract a tooth, and when does it make more sense to either refer them to an oral surgeon...
Kevin Huff | 4 years ago ›Providing an Ethical Second Opinion
What are best practices when it comes to managing patients who come to you looking for a 'second opinion?'
Kevin Huff | 6 years ago ›Minimizing Post-Operative Pain with Irrigation
When it comes to minimizing post-op pain for your patients, it's important to understand the chemistry behind various irrigation methods.
Kevin Huff | 6 years ago ›Manage Challenging Dental Patients with the B-A-N-J-O
When challenging dental patients create an ethical quandry, dentists should use the acronym B-A-N-J-O to help them decide what to do.
Kevin Huff | 7 years ago ›A step-by-step guide to facebow transfers, as well as recommendations on articulators.
Dave St. Ledger | 8 years ago ›Three Rules for Winning the War—Even If You Lose Some Battles
The bottom line is that creating patient value is a process, one that you need to be engaged in with each patient on each visit, to the best of your ability,...
Imtiaz Manji | 8 years ago ›Three Rules for Following Through
No matter what business you are in, your passion for your work shows in how determined you are to influence others to see the value of what you can do.
Imtiaz Manji | 8 years ago ›Not too long ago, in one of my blogs, I was chastised by a responder for not doing what he thought I should have done. This was followed by the comment,...
Steve Ratcliff | 13 years ago ›