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By: James Anderson, DMD, CEO February 14th is Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine. It is an annual holiday celebrating love and affection. Since this is our February edition of the newsletter, I would be amiss if I did not...
This newer code is a bridge between a preventive prophy and scaling and root planing. When neither fit the patient’s condition the use of D4346 may be applicable if the following are present. Use this code when all of these are present: Evaluation is complete; Patient...
Tia Pearsall has been with eAssist for a little over four years. Prior, she had been working at a dental office when she was unexpectedly let go. She was given the opportunity to temporarily work outside of her field while she researched options to continue...
By: Michele Pennington, New Client Information Specialist I was born with the gift of persuasion. As long as I believe that whatever service, product, or company I represent offers the best to the consumer, I have never had much difficulty in getting people to see things...
By: Belle DuCharme, CDPMA, Editor, Director of PACE/CE Ever told yourself that weight loss is mind over matter or that correcting any bad habit is simply saying “I am not going to do that anymore?” So, how is that working for you? For years I have been...
Survey Says: West Monroe Partners and a dental payor emailed a survey to 2,000 people who had been a patient at one of 10 unnamed dental support organizations. To ensure accuracy, the survey was sent to at least 100 patients from each DSO. The survey used Net...
Dental Office Managers or Business/Scheduling Coordinators know what I am talking about when I say, “I am trapped at the desk by a “chatty cathy” or a “motor-mouth” co-worker. The person who wants to talk while you are trying to work. While this person seems...
Dawn Martin was working for a Managed Care Dental Co- Heartland- and a co-worker who had started part-time with eAssist told her about this “work from home company.” Her name is Racheal Grant. Racheal and Dawn had been co-workers in private practice years before, and...
Another name for destructive conversation in the workplace could be gossip, backstabbing, lying, undermining or just plain mean talk. It all has the same consequence, that being, low morale, absenteeism, turnover, stress and fear. As an employee, it’s up to you to foster the kind...
I worked in Fargo for 12 years as a dental assistant for perio, endo, ortho, oral surgery, and general dentistry. I also worked as a receptionist/office manager in a general office for 10 years; I always felt it was a dead end job. I had...
