Can’t find a dental assistant?  Create your own!

How online training is making it easier to turn someone with no dental experience into a valuable member of your clinical team.

The Dental Assistant Bullpen: A Smarter Solution to the Staffing Shortage

What if the answer to your dental assistant shortage isn’t finding an experienced assistant—but developing your own?

Throughout my many years of practicing dentistry, one of the most frustrating challenges I faced was finding qualified dental assistants when I needed them. There were times when it seemed that there simply weren’t any experienced assistants available to hire.

And when you’re short an assistant, the consequences go far beyond the inconvenience. Production suffers, schedules become disrupted, patients may need to be rescheduled, and the entire office feels the stress.

But thanks to today’s online training technology, I believe there is a better way to approach this problem.

What If You Could Develop Your Own Dental Assistants?

The most productive 15 minutes in your day!

By Richard Carlson DMD

How a well-organized morning meeting can improve efficiency, strengthen patient relationships, and increase profitability.

Are morning huddles really necessary? If you want a more productive, efficient, and profitable dental practice, the answer is absolutely yes.
Too often, dental practices begin their day with everyone rushing to their respective positions, focused only on the patients and procedures immediately in front of them. The schedule may be full, the staff may be busy, and the doctor may work nonstop, but does that necessarily mean the practice is operating at its full potential?

Not even close.

One of the simplest and most effective ways to improve practice performance is to invest 10 to 15 minutes each morning in a well-organized team huddle.