Avoid the Doctor Bottleneck

If your office is like ours and most of the orthodontic offices I’ve visited, the doctor is the bottleneck and the limiting factor when it comes to the workflow. The team members usually must wa...

Blame Doesn’t Help You

Even if you’re convincing. Even if you’re right. But seeking to assign blame comes incredibly naturally to us human beings. Whenever we are confronted with a problem, an obstacle, an issue...

Making Pontics for Ortho Patients (video)

Making pontics for missing anterior teeth on patients in braces has always been a challenge. I’ve tried lots of different techniques over the years and, though it’s still labor intensive,...

Patients Won’t Wait on You

I hear doctors talking all the time about how long their new patients must wait for an appointment. A wait of three to six weeks is not uncommon at all and many doctors talk about even longer waits as...

Sunday Is The Last Day!

Our offer to include a free subscription to the Bentson Clark reSource newsletter along with new OrthoPundit subscriptions expires at midnight Sunday, August 14 2016. So if you want to take advantage ...

Use Your Head!

As I’ve mentioned several times recently, I took over a practice that I own but haven’t run for many moons this summer. Overall the patients are in good shape but I’ve seen things...