Restorative Dentistry Blog

Patient education is an important part of any successful dental practice. A patient’s understanding of how a recommended treatment impacts their oral health correlates to the likelihood they’ll move forward with a procedure. Dual monitors can be a simple and affordable way to get this done.

Learning to run your dental practice like a business can be an obstacle for dentists who have recently taken the plunge and purchased or opened their own office. If your accounts receivables list looks like it belongs to a loan officer, it might be time to revamp your collection process.

Managing the business side of your dental practice means dealing with capital expenditures, including figuring out where the capital will come from. In this post, we outline five ways to secure capital.

Assisted hygiene is a popular buzzword in the dental care industry. You may even be considering hiring a hygiene assistant for your practice. In this article, we’ll give an overview of the pros and cons of assisted hygiene.

Staying competitive in a rapidly evolving field like dentistry can be challenging. Whether you’re interested in upgrading your equipment, renovating your office or moving into a bigger space, sometimes the only available choice for footing the bill is a loan. Here are 5 things to consider taking a loan.

Maxillary and mandibular bone atrophy presents a challenge for implants. Traditionally, bone grafting has been the dentist’s primary tool when facing severe atrophy. A more recent approach is to forego grafting with the use of zygomatic implants or short large-diameter implants. While these techniques require a greater level of surgical skill than oral rehabilitation and […]

Owning a dental practice where patients rave about the experience can be a big boost for business. As silly as it might sound, patients are just as likely to recommend your office because of super-fast Wi-Fi and tasty coffee as they are to mention chairside CAD or your new CO2 laser. Ignoring these seemingly details […]

Getting patients in-and-out of your office as quickly as possible is a win-win scenario. Busy patients love it and the more patients you see the faster your practice grows. How many of these efficiency practices are you taking advantage of at your dental practice?

Lasers are rising in popularity for periodontal care. In this post, we look at the reasons lasers are well suited for periodontal debridement and the common types of lasers available.

While any dentist who is up-to-date on industry trends is surely aware of chairside CAD/CAM technology, a surprisingly low percentage of practices nationwide are using it. It’s one of those changes that often sounds good in theory yet continually gets pushed on to the back burner. Single-visit dentistry is easier to schedule, eliminates the need […]