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  • Dental Product Shopper
  • 03/26/2020

  Ways a Treatment Coordinator Can Boost Case Acceptance

  Although case acceptance has historically been considered the doctor’s job, busy doctors are limited in how much time they can spend discussing treatment with a patient. A dedicated treatment coordinator, however, can spend as much time as necessary to answer all the patient’s questions, which can greatly improve your case acceptance rate.

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  • Sharde Harvey, DDS
  • 11/18/2019

  Why More Dentists Should Screen for Bruxism

  While bruxism has many contributing factors outside the immediate realm of dentistry—including anxiety, stress, smoking, caffeine, use of amphetamines, snoring, fatigue, and sleep apnea—dentists are in a unique position to screen for it and the commonly associated sleep apnea, and in the process, we can save lives.

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  • Katie Kupczyk RDH, BSDH, BS
  • 10/23/2019

  5 Tools to Combat Caries

  Every patient is different, so to provide the most effective caries prevention, each individual may require a unique combination of education and hygiene tools. Here, Katie Kupczyk shares her top 5 considerations for preventing tooth decay.

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 09/25/2019

  Spear Online Resources Go Beyond Required CE Credits

  Spear Education's Online Platform: Your Resource for Ongoing Education For every dentist, education is the gateway to their professional life. It’s also the gateway to professional growth. All the years of education and training to become a dentist took passion and genuine interest in the subject matter. Further into their careers, dentists need...

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 08/26/2019

  Feeling Professionally Isolated? A Spear Study Club Might Be the Answer

  You don’t even have to be a dentist to agree on these three points about professional development: 1. Learning in “the real world” is a lot different than learning in a classroom. 2. In-person networking is valuable and can lead to new opportunities. 3. Everyone can feel professionally “stuck” or isolated from time to time. Usually the way to...

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 06/24/2019

  An Opportunity for Endodontists to Fine-Tune Referrals

  “Come check us out for your next root canal,” isn’t exactly an effective marketing pitch. It’s why endodontists rely greatly on referred cases. I recently came across a TED Talks playlist called “the power of asking.” The description read, “These talks reveal that some things are more within your grasp than you may think, especially if you ask.”...

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