Why Aren’t You Wearing Loupes?

I wore loupes in dental school but put I them away for Ortho residency because everyone else did. I didn’t use loupes for the first couple years I practiced but one day I decided to break them o...

Your Patients Agree With You!

Of course they do. They decided to start treatment with you so obviously they liked you and what you do better than any of their other options. That’s fantastic for you and for them. However, no...

STOP BUYING SH*T YOU DON’T NEED

By: Klifford T. Kapus DDS, MSD I generally stay away from offering business advice because my experience practicing in California has been more about survival than expanding market share. Until they s...

Ideal is Dumb

Ideal has a place in textbooks and in the educational process but, in practice, ideal is dumb. Ideal is the favorite word of the inexperienced, the armchair quarterbacks, anonymous online study club ...

Banding Molars Is Lazy

And not the good kind of lazy that utilizes excellent systems to make life easier and better for patients, assistants and orthodontists (some call that efficiency). No, doctor, this is laziness that r...