In my last curator journal I discussed the very early years and buying my dental practice. In this chapter I look at my first attempt to grow and change my practice and even debating stepping away from dentistry into another career. Ultimately it was a great assistant and a great patient that created the tipping point in my career after I learned that Read More

With some major milestones coming up in my personal and practice life I have been reflecting on the journey I have taken since purchasing my practice. In this segment I think back on the very beginning, and buying a great practice and getting to know all the things about it and dentistry that I wanted to change. Of course there are always thing sot keep as Read More

  Whether it is in the dental profession or our personal lives habits are a hard thing to break. Sometimes we do things a certain way because it made scientific sense at one point in time, even if that was a very long time ago. We keep doing it long after we can no longer remember the original "why", and the reason becomes "because we have always Read More

One of the challenges of our profession is feeling like you have to be an "expert" and you have to know it all. Getting comfortable with what you don't know is just as important as always questing for greater learning and understanding. Read More

Who We Are Who We Want To Be Who People Perceive Us To Be Marketing is different than branding and is important to the health and prosperity of our practices. Who people perceive you to be is critical and can be built in the office or out in your community at the soccer field or the grocery store. Read More

A great quote from a great educator helped me understand that I don't need to walk my patients through all of the technical information before I share the information critical to their decision process around dentistry. Getting to the conversation that matters directly: risks vs. benefits, logistics and health vs disease, is what patients want and will Read More

If you are a specialist you spend a lot of time thinking about how to cultivate referrals from GP's. The shoe doesn't get on the other foot often. Have you ever thought about how to create a relationship with your specialist that might encourage them to refer to you? Read More

Do you ever look at the dentistry you did in the past whether it was last year or 5 years ago and feel bad because you would do it differently today, maybe you even think you'd do it "better" today? We need to be less tough on ourselves! Read More

In the third installment of my fortune cookie challenge I look at our ability to be flexible, adapt how we think and change our minds both in the moment during a patient procedure, or as part of our thought process based on new learning. Are you able to flip-flop or change your mind? Read More

It's the second fortune cookie challenge. Do you have days where you are not sure it you are the pigeon or the statue? Read More