Orthodontic Contract Paperwork – What We Use

Over the next few weeks I’m going to share details and paperwork, contracts, procedures, etc. that we use in our office. Today I’ve uploaded all the paperwork we use when starting a case:...

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....

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...