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Community Dental Care
8 Days – 8 Communities – 8 Clinics – 4,500 Patients, A typical Bridge To Health Brigade
by Ira Sankiewicz, DDS, BSc; Tina Papacosmas, RRDHBridge to Health was founded in 2012 by six passionate health care professionals brought together by a common desire to provide health care to those in tremendous need. In 2013, Bridge to Health set out with their first team and…
How Community Involvement Grows Your Dental Practice
by Jackson Hadley, My Social PracticeBeing a truly great dental practice isn’t just about treating patients — it’s about creating a business that uplifts the lives of all around it. Finding meaningful ways to serve in your community will help you build a practice that…
Addressing Changing Patient Preferences & Expectations
by Kahaliah RichardsFor more information, please visit: www.ekwa.com.
Have You Aligned Your Dental Website with Facebook?
by Kahaliah RichardsThe sustained popularity of Facebook as the leading social media network can be effectively leveraged to promote your dental website. In a highly competitive online environment, you need more than just website promotion and internal SEO to reach your target…
Where is dentistry going? A chain of prevention practices.
by Kahaliah RichardsThree news items crossed my desk in the past month. All seem to point to a future for dentistry which features more specialization around managing the cause of poor oral health. One news item was a video interview with a…
Uber’s Message for Dental Care
by Kahaliah RichardsThe March 3, 2016 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine has a provocative article called “Uber’s message for healthcare”. The thrust of this article is summarized below by the Kaiser Foundation: “Unreliable service, inconvenience, uncomfortable surroundings, and high…
Smarter shopping for dental care — does it really happen?
by Kahaliah RichardsA new report shows that more user-pay has little influence on comparison shopping for medical care. Even with “skin in the game” via high-deductible health plans, Americans did not normally seek out cheaper medical services.Instead, they simply avoided shopping for…
The Silent Issue of Dental Affordability
by Kahaliah RichardsOne silent issue in the dental industry is affordability. Surgical care is so expensive that it has restricted dental visits over the past few years and, in turn, driven down dental incomes by more than 20% since the start of…
Do Your Patients Own Their Oral Health?
by Kahaliah RichardsHelp patients say “yes” to the treatment they need…. How would it be if all our patients accepted our treatment recommendations without having to be pressured, without stress or rejection? Why do dental patients reject appropriate treatment? 85% of case…
The New Patient Call
by Kahaliah RichardsTurning inquiries into appointments.. Dental administration team members are truly the “Directors of the First Impression” for new patients, and they have approximately 17 seconds to “make it or break it.” Many new patient phone calls start with the patient…
Getting ready for the grey hairs
by Kahaliah Richards“British Columbia’s population now has 31 people 65 years old or over for every 100 working-age persons. In a decade, the ratio will be 41 to 100. Ten years later, in 2035, the ratio will be 48 to 100, according…
Floss or Brush First?
by Kahaliah RichardsEssentially, we don’t know which hygiene procedure should be done first, nor for that matter, whether flossing has any preventive effect on dental decay. Read this quick review by the New York Times about the limited evidence to support flossing.…
The BIG issue: Affordability
by Kahaliah RichardsA recent survey of American adults found that 1 in 4 did not purchase needed dental care last year, because they couldn’t afford this service. Dentistry was, amongst all healthcare services, the least affordable (see chart). And this was…
Presciption for us ALL!!
by Kahaliah RichardsThis may be habit forming … I have to share the prescription I received last week from my medical doctor upon completion of my annual physical examination. My doctor stated that he was going prescribe a rare and unique script…
A new pitch to your community?
by Kahaliah RichardsAre we beginning to see a change in how dentistry is pitching itself to the community? Perhaps, if this ad in a local newspaper is indicative. The ad says a lot and very little. “Complete health dentistry” is a new…
How loyal are patients to their dentist?
by Kahaliah RichardsIn the US, there has been a surprising level of shopping and switching health care insurance plans during this second season of renewals under Obamacare. Almost 1 in 3 changed plans on the public website for health care insurance (HealthCare.gov).…
My community’s struggle to access dental care
by Kahaliah RichardsMy community newspaper recently featured a story about an overload of patients visiting a non-profit community dental clinic. The irony of this story is that most dentists in my community have fewer and fewer recall patients. Most want and need…