Patient Education

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 04/08/2019

  Integrated Treatment Centers Get Your Patients Involved

  When dental treatment hinges on patient acceptance, dentist-to-patient communication is central in the clinical process. Everyone communicates differently, and the way you verbally explain a treatment plan may not be the way your patient understands it. While some clinicians are naturally more skilled at oral presentation, there are patient...

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 05/21/2018

  'Patient FastTrack' New Enrollment with Lighthouse 360

  I recently started going to a new dentist and was generally impressed with the way the office leverages technology, from text messages about my upcoming appointments and computer monitors for patient education in the operatory. However, their new patient enrollment was still a mandatory paper process—the much-dreaded ceremonial clipboard before...

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  • Julie Cullen
  • 12/20/2017

  Whitening Patient Education at Your Fingertips

  As you’re well aware, patient education is critical no matter what procedure or treatment you’re proposing. Without it, you may end up with treatment refusal, nonadherence of treatment recommendations, or incorrect product usage. The team at KöR Whitening understands this, so they created a web page specifically for patients, chock full of...

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 03/28/2017

  Be a Dental Practice Hero...for More Than Just One Day

  The dental profession’s fight against periodontal disease reminds me of the lyrics of the David Bowie song “Heroes”: Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be heroes, just for one day When approximately 50% of Americans 30 or older suffer from periodontitis (stats from ADA and CDC), it really is a flip of...

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 02/07/2017

  Wait…We Need to Formally Ban Alcohol Service in the Dental Office?

  Do you offer your patients a glass of wine or beer to relax before their appointment? Right... We didn’t think so! But apparently this became an issue in Texas, which prompted a state legislator to introduce a bill that health care practitioners and their employees or agents cannot “provide or otherwise make available to a patient or to a person...

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  • Julie Schmitt
  • 02/01/2017

  Young Man’s Tooth Infection Turns Tragic

  Here’s more proof of the oral systemic health connection and the importance of getting treatment for an oral infection. The mouth is the gateway to the whole body, and, tragically, a young father recently found that out when a tooth infection spread to his lungs and caused his untimely death at the age of 26. Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, a...

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