Procedures
How to Hire the Right People for Your Dental Practice
Hiring is much more than simply collecting resumes and asking clever interview questions. It starts with a recruiting plan, a commitment to invest in the future of your practice by hiring the right people, and on-boarding those people properly. If you don’t have a...
Tips For Dentists on Treating Anxious Patients
Common Reasons People Are Scared of Visiting the Dentist In the U.S., an estimated nine to 15 percent of Americans avoid dental visits because of fear and anxiety. In the U.K., a survey found that 36% of respondents who never had regular dental appointments cite fear...
Why Having a Deliberate Practice Culture Matters
When it comes to the happiness of your team and patients you can’t just hope for the best. Instead, you must deliberately shape a practice culture that places an emphasis on employee satisfaction and an exceptional patient experience. This will allow you to maximize...
Have You Tried the Latest Innovations from Kerr Restoratives?
One of our goals here at Dental City is to help keep you and your team informed on what’s new in the dental world and how new products and innovations can benefit your practice. So today we wanted to talk about some new products from Kerr. Kerr Restoratives has...
Increase treatment acceptance by suggesting this fluoride treatment
Show of hands. How many of you know your patients would be happier with less tooth sensitivity and a slowing of tooth decay? How many of you also know that patients frequently have a hard time acting on the desire for less sensitivity and decay—instead choosing to...
5 Simple Ways to Improve your Reception Area Experience
In an ideal world every patient would go right from checking in at the front desk to walking back to their exam room. Your reception area would stand deserted—almost unnecessary due to your practice’s exceptional timeliness and efficiency. But we live in the real...
Quite the Career Change: Former Dentist Moves on to Film Production
While many dental professionals hope to live out their careers helping patients until they can retire comfortably, one dentist from Madison had slightly different plans for his life post-dentistry. Dr. Jim Kreutzer began practicing dentistry in Madison in the...
Use Instagram to stand out from competition
With more social media platforms created every day, it can take some time to narrow down which ones are worth using to promote your dental practice. Some are easy to eliminate based on low user counts or too narrow audiences. However, at 500 million users and growing,...
Tips for taking care of your body and lengthening your dental career
These tips can help dental hygienists learn how to prevent pain and health issues from long hours of dental work and ensure they don’t need to reduce their hours or retire early due to health complications. Even though ergonomics has become a respected aspect of the...
ADA Announces Plans to Create a License Exam that Doesn’t Involve Live Patients
In an effort to have a more ethical licensing exam that doesn’t involve performing dental work on live patients, the ADA has begun creating a new exam that still tests clinical competency while avoiding the risk of a patient having something done incorrectly or ending...
Don’t put all your eggs into the digital marketing basket
I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times by now: the chorus of voices echoing that the future of marketing is digital. Or you’ve read over and over again that an online presence is essential to growing your practice and remaining relevant in today’s dental industry....
Virtual Reality: a New Way to Help Patients with Dental Pain and Anxiety?
Do you have patients who could use some extra help in dealing with dental anxiety? Or patients who would benefit from a distraction when undergoing a procedure a little more involved than a typical hygiene appointment? What if you could offer them an experience that...