Understanding Your Unemployment Insurance Rate
Among the controllable costs for any practice is the unemployment insurance rate that you must pay for your employees. In most states, the percentage...
Adam McWethy | 10 years ago ›
Every doctor has a preferred exam sequence and incorporating the outside-in rule in the new patient exam can makes things flow as smoothly as possible....
Denise Prichard | 10 years ago ›
It is often said that there is no such thing as an 'overnight success,' and I believe this to be true. In almost every case real success is the result of...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›
So You Hated Setting Denture Teeth?
For many of us, removable pros lab was a pain in the elbow. Yet everything we need to know about esthetics can be demonstrated in a denture setup....
Steve Ratcliff | 10 years ago ›
Dentists get into comfort zones for a number of reasons. Sometimes it's because they have had several long hard years building the practice and now that...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
People are creatures of habit. But how often do we think about what it really means and how we can use that simple insight into our nature to our advantage?...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›
At a time when increasing numbers of online publications have begun placing their content behind a paywall, Spear has decided to offer even more to dentists...
Cody Lopez | 10 years ago ›
Who Is On Your Advisory Board?
I was walking through the Spear Campus a while ago and ran into a client I have come to know well. 'This must be at least the fourth time I have seen...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›
The 'Outside-In' Approach to the New Patient Exam
One of the biggest issues with the new patient exam is the amount of time it takes up. One of the goals is to gather all the data as efficiently as possible...
Denise Prichard | 10 years ago ›
Don't Let the People You Care About Become Invisible
I recently received a phone message from my sister that made me stop and think about the most important relationships in our lives. She was calling to...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›
Managing Patients With Multiple Bites
Have you ever had a patient ask you which one of their bites you want when you ask them to close? If so, you know that if there is any restorative work...
John Carson | 10 years ago ›
The 'Third Skill' of Today's Successful Dentist
About 30 years ago I owned a company in Canada that computerized dental offices. This was at a time when about 90 percent of the practices...
Imtiaz Manji | 10 years ago ›