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The 8 Keys To Selecting Great Seating For Long-Term Health
The fully seated dental operating position combined with the air turbine handpiece ushered in what has been known as the golden age of dentistry. This increase in capacity, along with the baby boom, launched a rise in dental incomes and formed the foundation for success of the dental profession as we know it. For today's health conscious practitioners, these innovations are also important for having helped reduce the number of practice-induced hunchbacks in the later stages of a professional career. Perhaps you have noticed these poor older practitioners at your last dental meeting?
Learn More...Dental Economics
A problem has emerged in our profession over the past two decades. Increasing complexity has resulted in the breakdown of the dental treatment environment. Advances in technology, and with it the range of products needed to provide services, have led to sprawl in operatory setups and equipment deployment (see Fig. 1). Increasing procedural complexity has slowed treatment while widening the range of motion.
Learn More...Equipping a No Compromise Practice for Less
Time and time again we hear from practitioners that tell us that they would love the ultimate high tech practice but that they just can't afford to make it happen.
Quite simply - that isn't so.
When we meet a practitioner that perceives this difficulty, we generally uncover one or more of the following problems
Learn More...Is It Time to Consider Electric Handpieces?
This probably qualifies me as an old timer, but when I was a dental student at the University of Michigan way back in the late 70's, I was honored to be chosen as one of the first guinea pigs to test a radical new low speed handpiece - it was air powered.
Learn More...Lighting, Sound & Spaciousness - Creating A Staff & Patient Friendly Operatory Environment
In dental office design, perhaps no area is more poorly understood as dental office lighting and its related elements, sound control and spatial sensation. As a result of errors in lighting design, many dental practices suffer from inadequate lighting, which results in eye strain, a reduction in productivity and, when combined with inappropriate auditory and spatial cues, even results in a poor esthetic atmosphere in the patient's eyes.
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