Patient Financing

Content Feed

• 
  • Marie
  • 05/21/2018

  Bright Smile’s Growth Means More Dentists and Patients Are All Smiles

  Bright Smile Financing’s model continues to resonate within the dental community. The loan company works with dental practices to provide simple, quick, no-hassle financing for dental procedures to patients with diverse credit histories. The loan company has been growing at an exponential rate. In fact, while the company is in the process of...

  Read More
• 
  • Samantha Negraval
  • 12/06/2016

  Study: Vast Unmet Need for Dental Insurance Among Seniors

  If you feel you haven’t been seeing some of your older patients lately, it may not be just a coincidence. Only 12% of older Americans have some form of dental insurance and fewer have visited a dentist in the last year, according to new research on Medicare beneficiaries from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings were...

  Read More
• 
  • Samantha Negraval
  • 04/28/2016

  Vermont Closer to Having Dental Therapists

  Residents of Vermont may soon have an alternative to seeing their dentist. According to a report by VTDigger, the bill known as S.20 creates a new profession—dental therapist—that would be regulated through the Office of Professional Regulation. According to a report by VTDigger, the profession of dental therapist would require 4 years of...

  Read More
• 
  • Samantha Negraval
  • 02/01/2016

  The Country With the Most Dentists Per Capita Is…

  Looking for a hot dental vacation spot? Hungary has the most dentists per capita than any other country, and Mosonmagyarovar and Sopron have the highest concentration of dental clinics of any city. Hungary’s booming dental business is highlighted in a new book, “The Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourist” by journalist Sasha...

  Read More
• 
  • Samantha Negraval
  • 10/29/2015

  SD Chargers Host TeamSmile Event for Low-Income Kids

  The San Diego Chargers came through in the clutch for 300 low-income San Diego children. The NFL team and TeamSmile partnered to host a fun, carnival-like setting for local kids to get free dental exams and necessary treatment. The event marked the second consecutive year the Chargers have partnered with TeamSmile, a nonprofit organization...

  Read More
• 
  • Julie Schmitt
  • 10/29/2015

  Find a Penny, Pick it Up: 45 Years of Finding Pennies Will Pay $5,000 Dental Bill

  After 45 years of picking up pennies wherever he went, a Louisiana man recently deposited them at a local bank so he could pay a dental bill. Ortha Anders of Ruston, Louisiana, hauled over 500,000 pennies – in fifteen 5-gallon water jugs – to his bank, where it took 5 hours to count them all. The total? $5,136.14! That’s a lot of cash for...

  Read More