Creating Leverage: 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...
Align Suggests One Week Aligner Wear
Many progressive offices have been telling patients to change out Invisalign trays weekly for years but now it’s official! See the release from Align here....
Discontinuation Of Treatment Form
There is often talk about what to do when a patient is happy with their result and wants their braces off but the orthodontist still thinks there is work to be done. I think you know my position if yo...
Risk Taking: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Over the last year I’ve struggled with the culmination of several decisions I’ve made. It’s not the first time that I’ve found myself in a tight spot but it doesn’t make ...
3 Ways to Verify Contracts Are ALWAYS Entered
By Bridget Burris Advertising, attracting new patients and closing the deal are all labor intensive, expensive processes in orthodontic practices. You work hard to render good treatment, give good ser...
The ADA Capitulates… Like They Had A Choice!
I received this from a friend this weekend: ADA Resolution It’s terribly interesting for many reasons and could be viewed by dentists to have huge repercussions on dentistry at large and espec...
Why Do Ortho Cases Take So Long?
It seems to me that the average orthodontic case treated with braces takes well over 20 months. I can’t back this up with stats or studies or anything like that but I am willing to bet that if s...
Sign The Petition To Protect Your Peers From AcceleDent
OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. (the makers of AcceleDent) has decided to attack individual orthodontists in their offices, in front of patients by serving them with court documents threatening action i...
Utility, Pleasure or Price?
What exactly determines the value of something? Why is there so much variance in price among allegedly similar products and services? I find the question interesting and the investigation useful for b...
Interesting Question From a Resident
On Ortho101 we were discussing our obligations to patients and my reticence to extract teeth on patients to achieve a Class I canine “just because that’s the way it’s supposed to be&...