Practice Management

Dr. John Flucke is in private practice in Lee’s Summit, Mo. He also serves as technology editor for Dental Products Report magazine and keeps an active blog filled with thoughts and tidbits on the world of technology at blog.denticle.com.

Articles

After trying out the company's analytics software, here are the impressions for the Jarvis Analytics Test Drive conducted by John Flucke, DDS.

Test Drive: Software Simplifies the Business Side of Dentistry

Lorne Lavine, DMD, founder and president of The Digital Dentist, has more than 30 years invested in the dental and dental technology fields. A graduate of USC, he earned his DMD from Boston University and completed his residency at the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester, N.Y. He received his specialty training at the University of Washington and went into private practice in Vermont until moving to California in 2002 to establish TDD, a company that focuses on the specialized technological and HIPAA needs of the dental community. He can be reached at drlavine@thedigitaldentists.com or 866-204-3398.

Ransomware is still a top security concern for practices. This Q&A guide will help ensure you’re protected.

Ransomware: Questions and Answers

Videos

In just 180 seconds, dental practice coach Mike Massotto offers advice and tips to help your practice enhance its operations. In this episode, Mike shares his best practices for creating a reception area that works for your practice and patients.

Therapy in 3 Minutes: Reception Area: Do's and Dont's

Beam Dental will now be known as Beam Benefits as it expands its offerings and refreshes its website and brand.

Beam Dental Rebrands to Beam Benefits 

With 180 seconds of advice, Mike Massotto puts your practice on a path to success. In this episode he shares tips on what to do, and not to do with your office decor.

Therapy in 3 Minutes – Office Decor: Do's and Dont's

Weave and Fuse will integrate to bring best patient communication practices to the practice management system. 

Weave and Fuse Announce Communications and Practice Management Integration 

Carrie Cahill has been an Executive Coach for 6 years leading both individuals and teams to develop and refine their communication, and strategic business skills. While working with her, clients explore individualized career success strategies and learn to build effective teams, who set powerful goals and deliver successful outcomes. By owning their personal and professional evolution they can effectively influence their business success.

Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, she honed her skills as a Human Resource Business Partner for a large international company leading strategic organizational design initiatives that showed direct impact on business results. She completed an aggressive talent transformation of an R&D team where her contribution to the organizational plan resulted in a fivefold increase in product launches over a 2-year period. She also collaborated on an initiative that resulted in a 7% CAGR, accelerated by the strategy she co-designed and co-led with that business’s leader.

As a Fortune Coach she enjoys working with multiple dental practices. She also enjoys opportunities to deliver team building experiences at a variety of industry speaking engagements.

Creating better dental teams, creates better business and then better organizations, and eventually gives us the building blocks to create better communities.

A Cry for Leadership: The “Great Resignation” of 2022

Stan Goff is the Managing Editor of Dental Products Report, Dental Lab Products and Modern Hygienist. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

This patient financing platform focuses on both the patient experience and the dental practice by providing tools and support to ensure successful implementation.

5Ws* Sunbit Buy Now, Pay-Over-Time Solution

Kellie Nock is the assistant editor for Dental Products Report. She graduated from Kent State University in 2018 with a Bachelor's in Journalism. Kellie enjoys multimedia content creation with a focus on audio and video storytelling. 

Why this DSO founder uses Simplifeye for efficient and secure patient payments.

A System That Makes Payment Processing Easy

Kristin Hohman has served as Associate Editor of Dental Products report since 2019. She has a background in journalism and digital content. Kristin can be reached at khohman@mjhlifesciences.com.

Refera modernizes referrals so patients don’t fall through the cracks. 

Front Office