Bracket Placement Guide – Clinical Advice for Young Docs (Part 2)
Bracket placement made simple – start with the lower 6 and place the bracket as gingival as possible (unless it is a huge tooth with plenty of bite clearance and then just put it below the heigh...
Clinical Advice for Young Docs (Part 1)
I rarely give clinical advice or talk about technique, treatment planning or philosophy for lots of reasons. Mostly because everyone thinks we are good drivers just like everyone thinks we are the b...
Stop Asking for Insurance Info on the New Patient Call
It’s a really bad idea. No, seriously, despite what everyone else says it’s a terrible idea to ask for insurance info on the new patient phone call for lots of reasons. At least we think i...
The Dichotomy of Business Ownership
2024 will make 20 years that Bridget and I have owned and operated an orthodontic practice(s). Don’t know that we are any wiser but we damn sure are more experienced! In our recent discussions Bridg...
Is Your Staff REALLY Like Family?
We hear it all the time from doctors – “Our staff is like family”. And that’s a wonderful concept or at least it seems to be but, really, are they? Words have meaning and just saying thing...
Would You Rather?
A friend of mine was checking the KPIs and Me article and giving feedback when she mentioned how difficult it can be to get orthodontists to understand the value of increasing absolutes at the expense...
KPIs and Me
One of the things that orthodontists constantly ask one another is “What key performance indicators are most important?”This question is only slightly less popular than “What’s the one thing...
Starting Over Is Easy!
There are quite a few orthodontists who wisely sold their practices to DSOs while the prices were higher than ever before. In selling they also divested themselves of accumulated debt, leases, baggage...
SDC, DSOs & ROI, Oh My!
The last few years have been terribly interesting! Unforeseeable and even unbelievable events seem to have become the norm and the pace of change is ever increasing. Adapt or die has never been more a...
Smiley Face Update Five Years Later
It’s been over five years since we started the experiment that is Smiley Face Braces in Orlando, Florida. A lot has happened – both expected and totally out of the blue – so we thought we...