The Vatican, Institutions and why I think #AAOSUCCEED
By Chris Bentson I just returned home from a short but awesome trip to Italy. My youngest, a Junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, is studying (you can eliminate this word but it is the rational given by the u...
ADA Resolution 65
I’ve been told that this resolution passed. We talked about it a couple weeks ago (see link here). Anyway, here is a copy of the resolution for your perusal. (5000-5999)_Committee_D_-_Legislativ...
Great New Book from Ginny Hegarty
I’ve known Ginny for a long time. She has a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to running a successful dental office and she is excellent at sharing her insight. Ginny sent me a co...
How to Hire a Marketing Employee
By: Angela Weber, CMO OrthoSynetics If you’re an orthodontic practice owner with ambitions to grow your patient base and even open up new locations, you know you need to aggressively market your s...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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&...