It’s Not About Being Right

It’s not about winning. It’s not about what’s fair. What we orthodontists do every day is about a very few things (ranked in the order I see them): Taking care of patients as we wou...

Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I’m sixty-four?

By Marc Bernard Ackerman, DMD, MBA I am the last person that you would expect to hear breaking orthodontic news from. In fact, if I am the first person to hear about something, it probably isn’t th...

Doctor, Listen to the Patient!

By Jason Tam We just saw a nearly 18-year-old new patient as a 4th opinion. Usually I am a bit wary of these, especially if they have traveled some distance to see me, but hey, I had time. She had bee...

In Town Transfer Patients

We spoke in detail about transfer patients from out of town on Sunday and based on the response I wanted to discuss transfer cases from other orthodontists in the same town. In town transfers are prob...

Crowdfunding Orthodontic Treatment

By Scott Hansen As many of the loyal readers of OrthoPundit know, Dr. Burris is known for his contrarian and provocative ideas about expanding access to care.  In a recent article, “Why I Accept M...

THE TAO OF NO

As learned by Mary-Jeanne’ Davidson Prior to helping my husband open his orthodontic practice, I considered myself a fairly resilient person. I grew up on a ranch where hard work was your birthright...

Visit The Chair One Time – Clinical Efficiency Part 3

For anything other than a bond or a debond, there is no reason to go to the chair more than one time per patient visit. Seriously. Well, I guess if you have inexperienced or incompetent staff I would ...

Do You Write ALL These Blog Posts, Ben?

I get this question all the time and I find it fascinating for several reasons: 1) That such a high percentage of orthodontists ask me this question and are deadly serious. 2) From what I can tell, th...