In 2017 the American Dental Association adopted a policy encouraging dentists to screen patients for sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD). This includes assessing a patient’s risk for SRBD as part of a comprehensive medical and dental history and referring affected patients to a physician as appropriate. When this happened I called my friend Dr. Steve Read More
Curators Journals
Becoming a Student of Leadership
You may be thinking about leadership as a way to better manage your dental team. I believe that leadership and becoming the best leader you can be is the key to changing your practice and implementing your learning and any changes you want for your practice and yourself. In this video I will profile the characteristics and the journey of one of dentistry's Read More
The Difference Between Carbide and Diamond Burs
For most of us we follow the process we learned in dental school as to what burs we use for varying procedures. The most common protocol is to use carbide burs for direct restorations and diamond burs for indirects. There is a difference in how the two types of burs remove tooth structure, and therefore what they are effective and efficient at doing. In this Read More
Dental Team Skills Start With The Fundamentals
Recently when working through some yoga I expected to not be able to do a particularly challenging pose. I was amazed that it was much easier than I thought. This ease came from the fact that I had all the fundamentals down, and I was strong at those. I realized thinking about this that it works the same way with teams. Often we want to have our dental team Read More