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8 Rules for Leading Your Dental Team to Excellence
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Mood and Magnitude: The Impact of Dental Provider Emotional State on Patient Perceived Pain​

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  • Dental Assisting Professional Model Launches to Unify Training and Career Paths
  • How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Role of Dental Assistants
  • Stop Drowning in Admin Work: How AI Actually Fixes Dental Practice Chaos
  • 5 Proven Strategies to Address Dentist / Hygienist Tensions
  • Recognizing the Full Value of Dental Assistants in Modern Practice
  • Asking for a Friend: How Can I Improve Cultural Competency in My Dental Office?
  • ​4 Ways to Improve Your Career as a Dental Assistant
  • Oral Preventive Assistants Can be a Good Thing for Dental Practices
  • 5 Ways DiSC Personality Training Can Improve Dental Office Teamwork
  • A Hidden Crisis: Human Trafficking and the Role of Dental Professionals
  • The Bagel Method: A Proven Approach to Successful Case Presentation
  • What Dental Assistants Can Do to Facilitate Case Acceptance
  • Top Podcasts Every Dental Office Manager Should be Listening to
  • 3 Ways to Increase Dental Team Longevity
  • ​The Complete Guide for Dental Office Managers
  • That’s Not My Job! The Dental Assistant Versus Front Office War
  • Wellness Corner: Chained to the Desk—4 Ergonomic Solutions for the Dental Business Team
  • Engaging Your Team: 5 Impactful Initiatives to Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month
  • Careers in Dentistry: The Importance of Dental Office Managers
  • 7 Qualities of a Great Dental Office Manager
  • ​Survey Reveals How Dental Assistants Help Dentists Make Money
  • Dental Success Begins at the Front Desk
  • Survey Shows Agreement in the Profession for Dental Assisting Advancement
  • 190 Best Team Names for the Ultimate Team Building at Work
  • New Group Strives to Create Brighter Career Future for Dental Assistants
  • Palliative Treatment: When and How to Use CDT Code D9110
  • The Top 4 Improvements Your Front Desk Can Make to Get You More New Patients
  • 10 Ways to Celebrate Dental Assistants Recognition Week
  • ​Managing Your Dental Practice Schedule
  • ​Myth Busters for Dental Assistants: Needle Sticks and Blood Tests​
  • How the Economics of Dental Assisting is Impacting Your Practice
  • Scheduling Strategies for a More Efficient Practice
  • ​Office Holiday Party Dos and Don'ts
  • Dental Assisting Myths: Are You Hearing (or Spreading) Rumors?
  • Goal-Setting to Boost Career Development
  • Tips to Regain Control of Your Dental Practice Schedule
  • ​Understanding the Complexity of Employment Law and Worker Rights
  • Meet Your New Dental Communications Assistant: ChatGPT
  • Dental Assistants: Learn How to Communicate and Avoid Burnout
  • A Great Manager's Most Important Habit ​​​
  • The Advantages of Dental Assistants Being Cross-Trained
  • Have You Found the Perfect Team Member?
  • How to Operate Short-Staffed without Sacrificing Patient Experience or Team Morale
  • 5 Keys to Reducing Stress in Front Desk Staff in Dental Practices
  • When it Comes to Leading Leaders, Use Your BICEPS
  • Having the Difficult Conversation: When Patients Opt for No Treatment​
  • Coding with Kyle: Scaling and Root Planing
  • Dental Assistant Appreciation Gift Ideas 
  • Hiring Strategies to Get Your Practice Through the Great Resignation 
  • What You Might Not Want to Hear About Your Workplace
  • Online Appointment Scheduling: 5 Ways to Maintain a Personal Touch
  • How Assistants Can Help with Case Acceptance 
  • Pitt's Dental Assistant Program Addresses Healthcare Professional Shortage
  • Myth Busters for Dental Assistants: X-Rays are Just a Way to Pad the Bill
  • When It Comes to Financing Ortho (or Other Dentistry), Keep it Simple
  • No More Being Ignored: A Dentist's Tips on Being Heard
  • What is Basement Dentistry, and Why is it Dangerous? 
  • 5 Conversations That Foster Teamwork in the Workplace
  • 7 Reasons Becoming a Dental Assistant is Worth It
  • For Overworked OMs, Help is Out There
  • Retrain Patients to Avoid Appointment Cancellation
  • You Won't Find Your Next Dental Assistant the Usual Way
  • For Overworked OMs, Help is Out There
  • Build the "Complete" System for Your Dental Office Workflow
  • 3 Tips to Improve Poor Employee Engagement 
  • Your Doctor is Selling the Practice. Now What?
  • The Staffing Shortage is Limiting Dentistry's Recovery. What's Next?...
  • Survivor: Dental Office Audit Edition
  • Gen X: There's No Overlooking This "Middle Child" at Work
  • Finding Your Work-Life Purpose in Dentistry
  • Avoid That Last-Second Setup Panic!
  • 10 Tips for Improving Your Life Operatory to Make Your Life Easier 
  • Which of These Three Leadership Styles Suits You?
  • How to Be a Better Dental Assistant: Definition and Tips
  • 4 Ways to Make Reception Welcoming Again 
  • The Challenges of Dental Assisting Meet Them with Compassion​
  • SMART Goals- How to Make Your Goals Achievable 
  • How to Handle Late Patients in the Dental Office
  • Success in Sports and Dentistry Alike Requires Teamwork
  • The Eight Qualities of Great Customer Service in Dentistry
  • Dental Assistants are the Front Line of Infection Control
  • 3 Ways to Prevent Your Team from Checking Out Before a Holiday Weekend
  • Plan to Succeed or Prepare to Fail
  • How to Make Your Team More Efficient
  • 10 Tips for Dealing with Difficult People
  • OraCare Cares Helping Patients Battle Symptoms Caused by Cancer Treatment
  • Psychology in Dentistry: Why Should You Care?
  • The 28 New CDT Codes for 2021
  • A Sterilization Labeling and Logging Solution  
  • A Review on the Effect of Music on Dental Anxiety in Children
  • How to Show Team Member Appreciation, Especially During These Challenging Times 
  • The Top 50 Compliments for Coworkers
  • 5 Strategies for Highly Engaged Teams
  • Team Culture Matters More
  • Maximize Remote Working Productivity in Your Dental Practice
  • 10 Ways Leaders Can Improve Engagement and Wellbeing
  • Maximize Remote Working Productivity in Your Dental Practice 
  • 74 Insanely Fun Team Building Activities for Work in 2020 ("Not Trust Falls")
  • Top 5 Breathing Exercises During Critical Times
  • Tips for Reducing Tension Among Dental Staff Members Who are Uncomfortable Working During Covid-19
  • How Can This Dental Front Office Run More Efficiently?
  • Why is Continual Training for Your Dental Team Important?
  • Why I'm Excited About Dental Intel's New Morning Huddle 
  • How Can Content Marketing Take Your Dental Practice To The Next Level?
  • Embracing conflict in the workplace
  • To Update or NOT TO Update?
  • 3 Effective Changes to Make With Your Scheduling
  • How Dental Teams Can Help Detect Type 2 Diabetes
  • Defining Our Expectations (By Setting Clear Patient Expectations)
  • Do Low Vitamin D Levels Have an Association with Oral Disease?
  • Hand Hygiene for the Dental Team
  • Adapting to today’s many changes in dental assisting
  • Tactics to encourage change in your dental office
  • Teamwork and the challenges during COVID-19​
  • Dividing Up Front Office Duties​​​​
  • 5 Things We’re Doing Now to Help Our Employees Navigate Work ​​​
  • Here are the dental podcasts I’m listening to 
  • Can Boosting Employee Morale Improve Employee Retention?
  • Why Leaders Should Add 'Equifinality' to Their Vocabulary
  • The Manager's Role in Improving Teamwork in the Workplace
  • How to Build a Great Team
  • The Five C's of Leadership and Team Accountability
  • 8 Habits of the World's Best Managers
  • ​​10 Emerging Trends That Will Unbreak Your Workplace in 2020
  • Take Charge of Work Stress Starting With Your Managers ​​
  • What Engaged Employees Do Differently
  • Why Strengths-Based Workplaces Have the Best Decision-Makers
  • ​​​Great Things Happen with a Little, or A Lot, of Dental Team Cooperation
  • Rethinking The Dental Team
  • How a Team Leader Can Deal with Toxic Team Members
  • How are We Training the Whole Dental Team?
  • 6 Reasons Why Leaders Choose Team Building Ideas That Work
  • Build A Sense of Teamwork Among Staff Members
  • How to Be a Dental Team of Superstars
  • 10 Tips for Better Teamwork
  • What Makes a Successful Team?
  • The Future of Work Means Managing Through Disruption
  • Unlocking Teamwork Potential: Coaching Good People to Being Great Teams
  • How to Critique a Team Member
  • Check Your Culture: 3 Questions for Managers​
  • Dental Team Shocked About Sale of Practice; What Should They Expect?
  • Leading with Love: Minute with Maxwell
  • Don't Be a Hero: A New Take on Teamwork
  • 3 Things to Always Do During Your Case Presentations ​
  • How to Help Employees Look Forward to Mondays
  • How to Motivate and Inspire Your Team to Achieve Better Results
  • The Wellbeing Initiative Your Organization Needs
  • Energizing Your People to Achieve Good Things
  • 3 Daily Actions That Set the Tone for Workplace Culture
  • 15 Personalization Trends Your Team Needs to Start Doing Today
  • It Takes Teamwork 
  • 4 Strategies to Enhance Your Dental Team's Communication
  • Why Some Leaders Have Their Employees' Trust, and Some Don't​
  • Beat the Heat by Training Your Staff to Effectively Leverage the Phone
  • ​Customer Service Starts with the Team
  • Workplace Culture: How to Encourage Collaboration
  • The Importance of Educating Your Dental Team
  • ​Staff Meetings or Gripe Sessions?
  • How to Develop an Effective Dental Team 
  • Strategy for Success: Using a Grid When Selecting Dental Schools
  • Do Your Team Members Have the HQ Factor?​
  • Exploring Choices in the Dental Assisting Profession: Clinical Options (Part 1 of 4)​
  • Dental Implant Maintenance Coding Frustration​
  • Jenn's Vision: Victim of Eye Injury Turns Into Advocate for Eyewear for Dental Patients
  • Making a Successful Office Transition from Back to Front​
  • Dentistry Can Be the First Line of Defense Against Domestic Violence ​
  • The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Dental Patients Just aren't Showing Up
  • The Battle for Music in the Dental Office
  • Root Canal Awareness Week Spotlights Endodontists
  • What Do Dental Assistants Really ​W​ant?
  • ​How to Hire the Right Dental Office Manager
  • 6 Signs Your Dental Team is the Best
  • Effective Dental Patient Communication
  • Simple Ways to Change Your Culture  
  • 6 Critical Steps for Cleaning and Protecting Your Dental Instruments
  • How Different Personalities Can Work Together 
  • Bleh! Who Likes Accounting Anyway?
  • 3 Signs Your Team Members Have Become Leaders ​
  • If I don't Let You Take Radiographs, You Won't See Me as a Patient?
  • 7 Tips to Build Cohesive Dental Teams
  • Must Know Tips for Hiring the Best Dental Team Members
  • 6 Quick Teamwork Games to Engage​ Employees at Work
  • Make Engagement Central to Culture and Reap the Rewards ​
  • What to Do if You're Surrounded by Yes People
  • Insurance Denies Once, Twice, Dentist Flexes, KA-POW! and the check arrives​
  • Want Fewer Employees to Quit? Listen to Them ​
  • Having Trouble Connecting with Your Patients? Find Your Charlie!​
  • How to be a Dental Team of Superstars
  • ​Woman Became Blinded During Routine Dental Visit
  • A Unified Team Means a Happy Patient
  • 4 Ways to Build an Efficient, Streamline Dental Front Office
  • Perseverance & Patience for Dental Managers​
  • The Do's and Dont's of Navigating Dental Insurance
  • How to Talk to Patients: Solutions to Four Common Mistakes ​​
  • 5 Things You Wish the Dentist Knew
  • Making a Successful Office Transition from Back to Front ​
  • How to Put Some Sizzle in Your Treatment Acceptance 
  • 3 Common Ways Insurance Companies Deny Dental Claims​
  • The Importance of Taking Time to Educate Dental Patients
  • Medical Billing for Dentist from Dr. Erin Elliott, Part 3 (Video)​
  • ​4 Strategies to Enhance Your Dental Team's Communication
  • ​A "Full" Schedule is Not Always a Productive Schedule 
  • Dental A Team Podcast, KPI's, Accountability and Leadership ​
  • Expanding Your Capacity for Production with Scheduling Techniques​
  • What Millennials Want is Good for Your Business
  • Yoga for Professionals with Dr. Roberta Garceau​
  • Team's Roll in Case Acceptance ​
  • Thursday Troubleshooter: Insurance Companies 'Downcode' and Confuse Dental Practice​
  • The Dental Team and their Roles
  • Working with a Great Team in Your Dental Practice - Lynne Leggett 
  • Scheduling for Productivity, Profitability, and Stress Control​
  • Electronic Funds Transfer: Is Your Dental Practice Ready?​
  • Dental Assistants: Rise Up and Take Charge of Your Circumstances! 
  • 3 Ways to Win with Dental Insurance
  • ​Master the Art and Science of Scheduling 
  • A Dental Manager's Personality: It's Just Who I Am
  • 8 Short Tips on How You Can be a Better Leader in the Dental Office
  • 'Power Over' Versus 'Power With' ​
  • Difficult Debbie: Dealing with Frustrating Dental Patients​
  • Protect Yourself and Your Patients by Avoiding Irritating Glove Ingredients​​
  • Celebrate Dental Assistants Week 2019​​​
  • Productivity-Boosting Resolutions for Your Office
  • How to Grow a Dental Practice to $5 Million a Year in Collections (and Produce $15,000 a Day)​
  • Dental Staff Not Getting Along? Here's How to Fix It
  • The Ultimate Cross-Trained Dental Team
  • 5 Questions Every On-boarding Program Must Answer
  • Front Desk: Help Where It Makes Sense, without Stepping on Toes​

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