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The New Value Roles: The Relationship Coordinator

The New Value Roles: The Relationship Coordinator

Contrary to popular belief, attracting new patients is not the number one factor in achieving practice growth. The most important factor is keeping the...

| 11 years ago
Three Key Tooth Positions for Your Orthodontist
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Three Key Tooth Positions for Your Orthodontist

When upper lateral incisors are missing and the treatment plan is to substitute the upper cuspids to replace the upper lateral incisors, when and how...

| 11 years ago
Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?
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Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?

Shortly after I seated the case shown here I was talking with a friend about the experience and marveling at how little occlusal adjustment I had to complete.

| 11 years ago
The Three Goals of Equilibration
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The Three Goals of Equilibration

One of the most confusing areas of dentistry is the concept of altering a patient's natural occlusion through equilibration. To fully understand equilibration,...

| 11 years ago
Monthly Spotlight

Monthly Spotlight

With all of the great content offered by the Spear Faculty and guest writers each month, we want to make certain that you don't miss any of it. The following...

| 11 years ago
What Can Dentists Learn From the Parenting Experience

What Can Dentists Learn From the Parenting Experience

Raising kids can be difficult work, as anyone who has them knows. When they're very young, they need constant attention (and diaper changing) and cost...

| 11 years ago
Say Goodbye to the Rag Wheel?
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Say Goodbye to the Rag Wheel?

I imagine that every dentist has at one time or another caught a plastic removable appliance (flipper) on a rag wheel and spun it into oblivion. It's...

| 11 years ago
Finishing Power: One of the Secrets to Real Leadership

Finishing Power: One of the Secrets to Real Leadership

I study leadership the way dentists study clinical care—it's my profession. I've led successful businesses myself for more than 30 years, and a big...

| 11 years ago
Upcoming Show to Feature Dental Disparities
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Upcoming Show to Feature Dental Disparities

On June 26, Frontline, the popular PBS newsmagazine program, will air a story that focuses on access to care disparities and the 'business of...

| 11 years ago
How CBCT Saved Our Keisters
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How CBCT Saved Our Keisters

We look at how cone beam CT helped better prepare a dentist and surgeon for implant placement surgery.

| 11 years ago
Does Google Know You're a Dentist?
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Does Google Know You're a Dentist?

By now just about every dentist has come to realize that having a website is practically as important has having a telephone. And I've seen some pretty...

| 11 years ago
Acid Bathing [INFOGRAPHIC]

Acid Bathing [INFOGRAPHIC]

With processed foods and beverages littering the aisles of every grocery store, and likely every pantry across the country, the enamel of our nation's...

| 11 years ago