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Troubleshooting Radiographs is Now Live!

Troubleshooting Radiographs is Now Live!

In spite of your best efforts, there will be occasions when your images don't come out the way you had hoped. The key to correcting a less-than-adequate...

| 9 years ago
Inheriting Dental Staff

Inheriting Dental Staff

I was talking to a colleague the other day about issues with their dental staff. This person knew that I had been involved with buying practices in...

| 9 years ago
Dentists: Let’s Meet for a Spring Break
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Dentists: Let’s Meet for a Spring Break

'I wish I knew then what I know now.' That's a comment I have heard many times from dentists who have experienced a great career breakthrough. It's a comment...

| 9 years ago
Difficult Conversations for the Dental Assistant is Now Live!

Difficult Conversations for the Dental Assistant is Now Live!

There are three common conversations that dental assistants routinely have with patients that can spark some tension and anxiety in the practice –...

| 9 years ago
Setting SMART Goals for the Practice

Setting SMART Goals for the Practice

As many of us move into the New Year, we set resolutions. Many times these are grand statements to be a better person, lose weight or spend more time...

| 9 years ago
New Team Meeting: The Power of Your Words

New Team Meeting: The Power of Your Words

The words dentists and their dental teams  use when working with their patients can be extraordinarily powerful. The selection of words a dental team...

| 9 years ago
Spear Debuts New Lab for Advanced Workshops

Spear Debuts New Lab for Advanced Workshops

You may notice a BIG and exciting change the next time you're at the Spear campus for an advanced workshop. We are happy to announce the opening of our...

| 9 years ago
Flipping the Triangle for Dental Patients: Part II

Flipping the Triangle for Dental Patients: Part II

You can access Part I of this series by clicking on the link. A 2010 article by Margolius and Bodenheimer notes that, 'Somehow, there must be...

| 9 years ago
Using Positioners for Direct Digital Radiography is Now Live!

Using Positioners for Direct Digital Radiography is Now Live!

When people think about direct radiography in dentistry, they usually think about direct digital sensors and direct sensors with a cable attached; these...

| 9 years ago
Best of Spear Digest 2014

Best of Spear Digest 2014

It's been another extraordinary year for the Spear Daily Digest, the publishing platform of Spear, thanks to our insightful and passionate contributors...

| 9 years ago
Denture to Interim Hybrid Using the Ministar

Denture to Interim Hybrid Using the Ministar

Fixed hybrid prostheses were traditionally designed for mal-adaptive denture patients with significant alveolar bone loss in the mandibular arch.  This...

| 9 years ago
New Course Added on Indirect Digital Radiography

New Course Added on Indirect Digital Radiography

Indirect digital radiography is a synonym for storage phosphor plates (PSP). Often times, dentists find this topic to be quite confusing; some may even...

| 9 years ago