OrthoPundit 2015 and Beyond
2015 has been a great year for the OrthoPundit blog! When we started OrthoPundit back in April we didn’t know what to expect but the results have been phenomenal by any standard. These days the ...
Consistent Problems Are Actually Opportunities
Do you have a problem that you have to deal with every single day in your business? Every week? Every month? If you said no I’d question your grasp of the day to day operation of your office, wonder...
No Wonder We Act This Way
I’ve always wondered why so many orthodontists are resistant to allowing patients’ parents, families and friends to join the patient in the treatment area but this weekend I visited a den...
Pending Management – The Data!
By Jamie Reynolds In previous posts, I shared some of the data we are collecting at OrthoFi. In a series of blog posts, I hope to share more of the data we have collected from over 60,000 starts and...
Orthodontists Are Like Taxi Drivers
No, I’m not talking about the fact that we both are hired help who are paid to get people from where they are to where they want to be. Neither am I talking about the fact that all taxis look t...
10 Ways to Significantly Reduce Treatment Time
Why is the average orthodontic case over 20 months? Why does the average mature practice have such a high percentage of patients overtime? I know you want to point to those outlier, difficult cases bu...
Doctor, Please Stop Assuming
By Nona Naghavi A lot has been said and covered by many before me. Ben has done a tremendous job hammering it into our heads that some things that we thought we should never do must be done in this da...
Do You Want the 99% or the 1%?
The answer is obvious. Or it should be. We orthodontists think it is obvious, but our actions often say otherwise. “What the heck are you talking about Burris?” I can hear you saying. I’m glad y...