Carriere Motion & MEAW – Birds of a Feather
The last couple weeks have been more interesting than usual. I attended the SAO in New Orleans – the first time I’d been to an AAO constituency meeting in a while – and was shocked b...
DIY Medicine?
Everyone agrees Telemedicine is a thing. It has been for several decades. The American Telemedicine Association was established in 1993 and the number of patients accessing real doctors via Telehealth...
PostScript: Follow the Money
One of our trusted sources was kind enough to give us an advance copy of Dr. David E. Paquette’s Guest Editorial from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (see below)...
Show Me The Money!
Have you ever wondered whether or not the speaker giving your continuing education lecture or the department head molding young minds is being paid, by whom and how much? By law, publicly traded compa...
The Google Review Arms Race
I’ve always taken it at face value that every orthodontist needs to make a concerted effort to amass......
A New Face in Orthodontics: Meet Smiley Face
Creation of An Authentic, Contiguous, Awesome, Successful Brand & Business Smiley Face is unlike anything in orthodontics. When we unveiled the brand and the model we could hear the collective gro...
Punked!
Sometimes things just don’t go your way no matter your intentions or your actions! The new dental reality encompasses more than just the way we orthodontists do business. It has a great deal to ...
Senior Ortho Residents Are The Smartest People On The Planet!
I had an interesting conversation with an orthodontic resident Monday at the AAO Annual Session. A couple of friends of mine and I were sitting at a table catching up when a senior resident approached...