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Your Dental Practice - Is It Time for a Reboot?

Your Dental Practice - Is It Time for a Reboot?

Remember when you were first learning to drive? Remember how hard you had to concentrate on every little thing you did—from being aware of the traffic around...

| 9 years ago
How Any Dentist Can Achieve Great Success from Optimizing the Basics

How Any Dentist Can Achieve Great Success from Optimizing the Basics

For a new dentist, graduating with a load of school debt and facing the costs of starting in practice, it can seem like financial independence is a long...

| 9 years ago
Dentistry in the Age of the Consumer

Dentistry in the Age of the Consumer

  I talk a lot about how dentistry today needs to be in touch with the new consumer landscape. Some dentists have challenged this line of thinking;...

| 9 years ago
The 3 Stages of a Successful Dental Career

The 3 Stages of a Successful Dental Career

There are three stages that mark the progression of almost every dental career. The Investment Stage The first stage in a dental career is where you...

| 9 years ago
The One Investment Every Great Dentist Makes

The One Investment Every Great Dentist Makes

The sad fact is that the average dentist (and by average I mean statistically speaking, not as a judgement of clinical ability) invests about $900 a...

| 9 years ago
The Acceptance Huddle Method: Solidifying the Yes
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The Acceptance Huddle Method: Solidifying the Yes

You have done complete records and arrived at a diagnosis. You have devised a comprehensive treatment plan, presented it to the patient using all the...

| 9 years ago
Specialists and GPs: The Interdisciplinary Solution

Specialists and GPs: The Interdisciplinary Solution

Why is it so important to create value for the dental specialist in the patient's eyes? Again, it all comes back to the words you choose...

| 9 years ago
How to Get Out of the 2 Kinds of Comfort Zones

How to Get Out of the 2 Kinds of Comfort Zones

We all know about the dangers of falling into the comfort zone trap, where good becomes good enough and growth stalls. But in order to tackle the comfort...

| 9 years ago
Open Wide Foundation: Add It to Your Bucket List
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Open Wide Foundation: Add It to Your Bucket List

Whenever I am in Vancouver, I visit the cemetery where my late wife, Shahinool, has her final resting place. I have a cousin who is buried there too,...

| 9 years ago
The Power of Finding the Right Words
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The Power of Finding the Right Words

That is quite a poignant reminder, isn't it, of the power of the right words to elicit the right response? It's a reminder that we, as human beings, are...

| 9 years ago
A Story of Friendship: How I Got to the Super Bowl
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A Story of Friendship: How I Got to the Super Bowl

Yes, that's me, alongside my good friend Jeff Slovin, the CEO of Sirona Dental Systems, at last Sunday's Super Bowl game. How I— someone who had never...

| 9 years ago
A Reminder of What Really Matters

A Reminder of What Really Matters

I was in Santa Barbara recently for a very special celebration. Lisa Wysel, the wife of Dr. Glen Wysel, my partner and one of my closest friends, was...

| 9 years ago