Reusing Gloves Is Nasty

DON’T DO IT. Buy less expensive gloves, get more efficient, make less trips to the chair, anything… But use new gloves every time you glove up. Every time. While we are on the subject, don...

Braces Vacation

If you have a patient that is over the estimated treatment time and the end is nowhere in sight, it’s time to do something about it. Whether it’s a compliance issue, a bracket position iss...

Train Chairside Assistants In 2 Weeks

Don’t worry. I didn’t think it was possible either! I firmly believed it took 6 months to two years to train an employee properly and, because I believed that, it did! And no, I’m no...

How To Tell If A Patient Is Wearing Elastics

Here are a few tricks to make you feel more confident about assessing the compliance level you are getting from individual patients. Creating an atmosphere in which we get good compliance in most cas...

Don’t Miss It- Orthodontic World Congress 2016

Lots of docs are asking about how we train train TCs, how our managers train chair side staff and how we set up and implement systems. Well here’s your chance to get those details and more in pe...

Class II Correctors… No Thanks

I know the knee jerk reaction when you aren’t getting results and the patient says they are wearing elastics is to just use a class II corrector because “they don’t require complianc...

Checklist For Ortho Practice Evaluation**

Having bought one or two practices and learned many, many tough lessons, I thought I would share a few of them here. Read this as a checklist of things to examine before, during and even after buying ...