Insurance verification helps to determine your patient’s eligibility for services. This is typically a part of any claims submissions and filings that your practice is processing on a daily basis. If you outsource, another company will be doing this for you, ideally with an understanding...
Accounting issues for dentists crop up just like with any other business: lack of time and investment. This is more than just a denial of issues, but also thinking those issues won’t crop up over the long term. Maybe you don’t have someone looking specifically...
Teaching dental hygiene to preschoolers has got to be one of the hardest duties for any parent. As a dentist, you may have trouble talking with otherwise well-intentioned parents about steps they can take to make toddler teeth cleaning both fun and effective at reducing...
Every dentist knows that one of the hardest things to impart on your patients is the importance of flossing. Everyone brushes, a little or a lot, but many people almost never floss! This can be seen in the increasing number of in between teeth cavities,...
Expenses can be some of the most daunting things we face as business owners. Profit and expenses go hand in hand, sometimes not for the better. It takes skilled management of both time and finances in order to profit from your business, and if you’re...
You don’t just need to have been a dental patient to know the importance of heart health and oral hygiene in the last few years. This new emphasis has garnered attention across the globe as something to be mindful of when discussing oral health options...
With October being Oral Hygiene Month in the dental industry, there’s never been a better time to educate and remind your patients about the importance of their oral health. Diseases caused by poor dental hygiene are on the rise, and periodontal disease doesn’t discriminate between...
When you track expenses for your business, are you looking at the whole picture or just what you assume to be important? This question is crucial to the long term success of any dental company. Your practice is constantly evolving, and the way your order...
We talk a lot about profit in the dental industry. Profit is our focus, our livelihood, our barometer of how well we’re doing. Yet, sometimes we can miss the smaller things that turn us that profit, the sort of “behind-the-scenes” stuff that makes your business...
A pulp test is not a routine test for oral evaluation purposes and should not be done routinely before preparation of a crown or other restorative work on a vital tooth. The pulp vitality code is a “stand-alone code” and should not be combined with...