Love & Orthodontics
Love & Orthodontics
Dr Chris Baker is a pediatric dentist, faculty member of three dental schools, longtime AAPD member and American Orthodontic Society Past President. She practices in Texas. Dr Chris writes about orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and life.
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Dentists, what is missing in your life picture?
For us dentists, we have been guided by a need, a dream, to help others.  Going to dental school, and to residency and further training, takes a whole lot of “get-up-and-go” and a whole lot of “stick-to-it-iveness.” Our schooling and hard work was (and is) driven by our need and dream to help...  Read More
The Fears that Bind Pediatric Dentists
Dentists who treat children often deal with certain fears about their profession. There are some great choices that can "rescue" these dentists from their fears.       Read More
Doctor, 'Insurance-Company-Speak' is not your Mother Tongue
The languages dentists have to learn!  Do you-speak 'insurance company-speak'?   Do you speak 'parent-speak'?   Do you-speak 'child-speak'?  Today I am looking at insurance company-speak.  And btw (by the way - that's 'text-speak') - “corporations” here refer to insurance companies, big box and...  Read More
An Orthodontic Finishing 'Pickle'
Here are some ideas about dealing with one kind of 'pickle' faced in orthodontic finishing.    Read More
Dentists Under Siege?  (Part 2)
“The past does not equal the future - unless you live there.”  ~ T. Robbins Why on earth do we choose to allow the insurance companies to come between us and our patients?  (Because of fear.) Why does it feel as if you are just “another run-of-the-mill” dentist?  And what is that anyway?  It’s...  Read More
When Pediatric Patients 'Fall into the Crevice'
Who's watching out for their orthodontic development?   Read More
When Your Patients' Parents Don't Give a Rip
Let Me Ask You -- Should You Treat Their Kids?   How and When?         As a young dentist, I remember feeling the exhilaration of the possibilities of helping children. Therein lies worth to a young mother and to a young dentist, imprinted with the passion for helping children.   After all,...  Read More
Dentists: Your Success Is All About Love
Practicing dentistry successfully and joyfully, every day, involves love. The systems you put into place can help make this happen. With the upcoming ELEMENTS Seminars, dentists can learn to combine the two.   Read More
Doctor, are you in pain?
Pain: a distressing feeling caused by intense or damaging stimuli.   What stimuli, you ask? Perhaps these: * Trying to Survive * Being in the crosshairs of    - the insurance companies -Insurance has become overwhelming to impossible    - Medicaid administration and paperwork    - other dentists...  Read More
Dentists Under Siege?  (Part 1)
It’s so easy as a dentist today, to feel as if you are nobody. The insurance companies, including government’s Medicaid and Medicare companies, are good at teaching people that they CARE about the people who pay them premiums. And that if the care you recommend isn’t covered, it isn’t medically...  Read More
Combining Love and Orthodontics Makes for a Joyful Practice
Video shot at the Advanced American Dental Clinic in Abu Dhabi, UAE.   Dr Chris Baker explains why a sincere love for patients and their families combines well with orthodontics for having a happy and successful practice.    Read More
I am not my staff's parent!  (The affliction of approval addiction.)
Boy!  Dental school didn’t give me any direction on being responsible for employees, staffing, HR, hiring and firing!  How about you? Maybe dental school taught you how to work with a chair-side dental assistant.  Maybe. Maybe dental school gave you some direction on training a chair-side...  Read More
The Great Distress: Ectopic Teeth in a Smile and in Orthodontics
For a patient whose teeth are ectopic - out of place - it is distressing.      A child will often say, “I don’t like my fangs.”  And, if the teeth do not show up, are ectopic and unerupted, it is distressing to have spaces in your smile. It is also distressing for you, wanting to be efficient and...  Read More
 Orthodontics: How You Start Finishing at the Beginning and Reduce the Stress at the End for You and Your Patient
Funny how we call detailing the tooth alignment and the bite, “finishing”. Funny because it all starts from diagnosis. Actually it starts at the initial examination. What we do at the beginning makes our finishing time longer or shorter. Identifying the existing risks,...  Read More
Are you trying 'just to survive'?  ...WOW is ever so much better!
In the day to day push, pull,, challenges, service to many people, it’s easy to feel an overwhelming feeling of “just trying to survive.” The day to day routines, the business drag, the difficult patient, unhappy staff members, worries over money - all are tough to survive. What if your practice...  Read More
The 'Wow Factor' In your practice
I gave a little talk on creating "Wow" in the dental practice to our dentists and staff at the American Dental Clinic in Abu Dhabi. It's on YouTube:   Read More
Ortho Case Finishing: The In-Treatment-Presenting-Posterior Crossbite
Orthodontic Case Finishing:   How do I get out of this pickle? (Part II) Pickles can be sweet, tart, bitter, or sour. “Dr.  Chris, when do I get my braces off?” “Let’s look,” I say to the pretty teenage girl in the orthodontic chair.  She has worn her elastics well, kept her plaque under...  Read More
Specialization as a GP or Pediatric Dentist...
If you are a GP dentist or a Pediatric Dentist you take on the responsibility for your patients, of functioning as the “gate-keeper” or “dental home.”   You provide comprehensive and often extensive evaluations of your patients’ needs, and from there, along with the appropriate records, create a...  Read More
Find the Joy in Your Everyday Practice Life: The Critical Elements
THREE CRITICAL ELEMENTS Critical element: Loving your patients and your patients’ parents As your practice begins changing (because YOU are changing), you will find it easier and easier to love your patients. They will love you more. You will have created a love-fest. And, by the way, you...  Read More
At your practice: Another opportunity to strut your stuff
As a dentist, you are a special kind of person.  Special because you went into dentistry to help others.  Special because you have love to give.  Now before you go and feel guilty because you hoped dentistry would make you a good living, let me say, “Congratulations."  You  are also special...  Read More
Don't bracket a tooth just because it's white
Against the backdrop of the mucosal tissues, the teeth, our target for treatment, stand out.  After diagnosis and treatment planning - normally the next step is the banding/ bracketing - of all available teeth.  We pride ourselves in increasingly capable bracket placement, and work hard to be sure...  Read More
Stress in your practice: Why does 'deep down' keep showing up?
Deep down - in our subconscious, our amygdala, our unconscious, we have a primitive brain that functions like our animal friends’ brains.  We react.  Without thinking.  (Thinking is higher up.)  Our emotions predominate.  It’s  our ego barrier - subliminal defense mechanisms that make it hard to...  Read More
Way too... (What Dentists Worry About.)
We dentists are way too worried about people getting mad at us - people including our patients, our colleagues, our friends and family. It’s our nature.  Most people who are attracted to dental school are approval-addicted, and spend way too much time trying to please others. Caring...  Read More
 WOW!!!  We’re talkin’ about airway issues in children (at last).
Airway issues - sleep apnea - OSAS - have hit the “mainstream” in dentistry, first concerning the adult patient, and now the child patient. I am thrilled! Why? Because there are so many children we can help! For more than 25 years, as a teacher of orthodontics and pediatric...  Read More
Practicing Orthodontics: How's it workin' for ya?  Part IV: How to get there from here
How can I get there from here? How can you help your patients fall in love with your business? How can you really manage your people/staff? How can your practice/life/family/you be more fun? How can you find peace? Believe it or not, the answers to each of these questions are very similar....  Read More
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