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When Ethics and Law Collide with Professionalism

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...

| 4 years ago
Balancing Previous Patient Experience with Appropriate Diagnosis
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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...

| 4 years ago
Providing an Ethical Second Opinion
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Providing an Ethical Second Opinion

What are best practices when it comes to managing patients who come to you looking for a 'second opinion?'

| 6 years ago
Minimizing Post-Operative Pain with Irrigation
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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.

| 6 years ago
Manage Challenging Dental Patients with the B-A-N-J-O

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.

| 7 years ago
9 Steps to a Facebow Transfer

9 Steps to a Facebow Transfer

A step-by-step guide to facebow transfers, as well as recommendations on articulators.

| 8 years ago
Three Rules for Winning the War—Even If You Lose Some Battles

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,...

| 8 years ago
Three Rules for Following Through

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.

| 8 years ago
Off the Pedestal
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Off the Pedestal

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,...

| 13 years ago