Right or Rich?
We average a couple visiting doctors a week at Smiley Face these days. Doctors who generally come to see what we are doing and learn but in a significant number of cases it is readily apparent that th...
Omnidirectional Orthodontics
Marc Ackerman & Ben Burris We were discussing orthodontic theory and practice from an historical point of view today and remembering that 1) Transverse First was a big deal in the 1990’s and ear...
Pediatric Airway Orthodontics: Keep Rolling the DISE
by Marc Ackerman Much heat and very little light has been shed on the topic of airway orthodontics. The treatment of sleep disordered breathing in the pediatric population differs significantly than t...
If You’re Broke, Consider Sleep Apnea Orthodontics
That’s right, I said it. If you can’t attract enough new patients to satisfy your practice needs, if you struggle to make the patients you have happy, if you’re not making much money, if you’r...
Pricing Implications
You get what you pay for… This was never more true in orthodontics than today. Though we try and ignore the fact, there is an implied agreement between orthodontists and our customers that transcend...
$800,000
The other day I was asked why I think the median orthodontic pracrice is doing less than a million in production and, even if most orthodontists are producing in the 800 k range, how can they be broke...
Dentistry’s Latest Great Satan
I’ve noticed a definite change in the flood of emails, blog posts and other content we dentists are inundated by daily. Over the last six months to a year there has been little if any mention of the...
White Coat Syndrome
Online, in lecture halls and in print, there are fanatical devotees of evidence based orthodontics whose shrill voices lament the absence of science in our profession. For proof and for comedic relief...