Over my career I have struggled with being content with where I am at. There is always another course to take, a better ways to do the procedure and bugger and better things to have. I have learned to be content with where I am and still to strive for more. Finding the balance between where I have been, where I am today and where I am headed has been the Read More
Eric Farmer DDS
TMD & General Practice
So balancing my time has been a theme this last week. I have been balancing practice and other "work" commitments with time with my spouse. I have also been trying to balance the services mix in my office. It has been a theme this week on the forums to talk about treating complex TMD patients in between the flow of things in a GP practice. This became Read More
Taking a Mulligan
In the game of golf a mulligan is when you need a do over. Usually you have hit the ball way afield of where it needed to be and don't want to take a penalty stroke and the extra stroke to get the ball back in play. In dental practice there have been lots of times I wished I could take a mulligan and get a do over, but there is not going back. We only get Read More
Perio, Inflammation & Collaboration
At the end of a busy day of practice I joined my Seattle Study Club for a program on "Inflammation". The perspective wasn't just about looking for pocket depths and bleeding, but about how this effects our overall health. I am fired up for tomorrow to help my patients avoid both periodontal disease and the consequences of potential tooth loss, but also the Read More
Growing & Thriving
After figuring out that I needed to promote myself and behave with intention around growing my practice and doing comprehensive dentistry my practice hit a state of growth and thriving success. It was a slow and steady process of adding 30 new patients a month and making sure we kept them. That growth resulted in a one doctor and four hygienist practice. Read More
Promoting Yourself To Success
One of the best lessons I learned is that changing my practice and doing the types of cases I wanted to started with being willing to promote myself. It started as I said in my last journal with a patient who had her dentistry done at another office. I then got to see spectacular dental photography from Jason Olitsky. This skill allowed me to show patients Read More
Farmer’s Excellent Adventure
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
Practice Reflections: The Very Beginning
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