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How Long Do Dentures Last? 7 Ways to Extend Their Lifespan
Dentures are removable dental appliances designed to replace missing teeth and restore your ability to eat, speak, and smile confidently. Depending on how many teeth are missing, you may benefit from . However, dentures are not designed to last forever. Even with regular care and routine...  Read More
The Role of Comprehensive Health Assessments in Patient-Centered Care
The most common complaint patients have about healthcare is that nobody looks at the whole picture. You see a specialist for one thing, a GP for another, and a dentist for a third, and the information gathered in each of those appointments rarely travels effectively between them. You end up...  Read More
Bigger on Paper, Breaking in Practice
Four operational blind spots every dental operator should understand before the next board meeting.Dentistry has spent the past decade consolidating.DSOs have gone from a relatively small corner of the industry to a major force in how care is delivered, how practices are financed, and how dental...  Read More
Episode 47: Dr. Bill Simon on Dental Practice Management & Organized Dentistry
Dental practice management is often taught in theory—but Dr. Bill Simon has lived it in every possible real-world scenario. In this episode of The Technology Evangelist Podcast, host Dr. John Flucke sits down with the Chicago-based dentist, organized dentistry leader, and long-time mentor to unpack...  Read More
A college student notices something strange while scrolling through old photos. Their smile looked straighter a few years ago, but now the lower front teeth seem slightly twisted. A friend immediately blames wisdom teeth. Another says wisdom teeth have nothing to do with it. With so many opinions...  Read More
How Wellness Branding Helps Dentists Attract Better Patients | Dr. Kevin Faist | 620
One sentence from the latest podcast stuck with me:"People don't want to be convinced. They want to understand."Dr. Kevin Faist shared several ideas that apply far beyond dentistry.A few favorites:-"Cheap attention rarely becomes loyal attention."Not every new customer is the right customer.-...  Read More
Episode 46: Dr. Ed Zuckerberg on the Oral Systemic Connection & the Future of Periodontal Health
The connection between oral health and systemic health is becoming one of the most important areas of research in modern dentistry—and few people have followed that evolution more closely than Dr. Ed Zuckerberg. Returning as the first repeat guest in the history of The Technology Evangelist...  Read More
House of Cards?
Capitalization Matters.While the majority of the watercooler talk swirls around the much vaunted “multiples” and “recaps”, how businesses are capitalized is rarely discussed. This is a disservice to everyone around the table.Too many owners and sellers focus on maximizing optics without investing...  Read More
Feeling Under Water?
Feeling Under Water?The tide continues to shift in DSO-land.  Quiet concern has become public disclosure after public disclosure. Multiple significant restructurings.  Top end consolidation.  PE firms handing the keys to their lenders left and right.  A broad swath of the group practice landscape...  Read More
Your robots.txt welcomes AI crawlers. Your server may be turning them away anyway.
Short answer: of 499 U.S. dental practice websites whose robots.txt explicitly allows AI crawlers, 14.4% were refused by their own server anyway when we asked for the homepage as an AI crawler on 22 July 2026. Sixty-nine of those sites returned an outright block status such as 403 or 429, and three...  Read More
Managing Dental Anxiety in Patients With Panic Disorders
Dental anxiety in someone with panic disorder is not the same as ordinary nervousness before a filling. For these patients, the dental chair can trigger a full panic attack, racing heart, shortness of breath, a sense of losing control, so managing it requires both clinical accommodations from the...  Read More
Why Dentists Should Always Check for More Than Just Teeth
If you haven’t seen the patient in a while and it is a general check up, a dental examination can provide an important opportunity to look at the wider mouth, face, neck and throat, and sometimes spot signs of a health problem that the patient may not even know they have.Dentists see patients...  Read More
How to Handle a Severe Toothache Before You Reach an Emergency Dentist in New Port Richey
A severe toothache rarely announces itself at a convenient time. It tends to arrive on a Sunday evening, during a holiday weekend, or in the middle of the night — when your regular dentist's office is closed and the pain has moved well past the point where ibuprofen makes a dent. What you do in...  Read More
How PRF Microneedling Benefits Differ From Traditional Microneedling
Microneedling has spent years earning its place as one of dermatology's most dependable skin-resurfacing tools — but the version gaining serious momentum in clinical settings today looks meaningfully different from what most people have in mind. The addition of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) to...  Read More
Expanding Facial Aesthetic Services in Dentistry: Why Product Sourcing Matters as Much as Clinical SkillThe boundary between dentistry and facial aesthetics has blurred significantly over the past decade. Today, patients no longer view dental care in isolation; they view the smile as part of an...  Read More
What Actually Happens During a Dental Crown Appointment
Most people know they need a crown before they understand what getting one actually involves — and that gap between knowing and understanding is where anxiety lives. A 2023 survey by the American Dental Association found that dental anxiety affects roughly 36% of the population, with fear of the...  Read More
“To participate, or not participate, that is the question.” - Hesy-Re
So, like, just WTF is dental insurance?  For the vast majority of patients, dental insurance represents prepaid preventative services such as cleanings, imaging, and exams.  There may or may not be small co-pays associated with the preventative care.  Should that patient also need restorative care,...  Read More
How Regular Dental Checkups Lower Your Long-Term Bills
You must have often heard your doctor or dentist say that prevention is better than cure. But what does it actually mean and why do dentists say it particularly? Well, in this context, the phrase means that regular dental checkups are the best way to avoid expensive and painful future treatments....  Read More
Episode 43: Thomas Passalacqua on Dental Executive Coaching & Professional Clarity
Dental executive coaching is still one of the most underused resources in dentistry — for practice owners, associates, and dental leaders alike. In this episode of The Technology Evangelist Podcast, host Dr. John Flucke sits down with ICF-certified executive coach and founder of Ascend Professional...  Read More
The Oral Findings Patients Do Not Connect to Their Evening Routine
Dentists occupy an unusual position. We see the inside of a patient's mouth more regularly than most physicians see the rest of them, and the oral cavity records habits with considerable honesty. Among the patterns worth recognizing is one patients rarely volunteer and almost never connect to what...  Read More
Sophie's Choice - Owned Real Estate
Most of us are likely familiar with the term “Sophie’s Choice” - the proverbial lose-lose situation - asking someone to deliberately choose their least worst option.  In dental transitions, we are frequently challenged with a similar conundrum when there is owner-occupied real estate in the mix....  Read More
How Often Should You Really Be Seeing the Dentist?
"Twice a year" is the answer almost everyone knows by heart, the same way we know to change our car's oil every few thousand miles. It's printed on the little reminder card the front desk hands you on your way out, and it shows up in just about every toothpaste commercial ever made. But here's the...  Read More
Dental Tourism Is Not Going Away: What Returning Patients Mean for Your Practice
Many dentists are seeing a practical result of cross-border care: a patient returns from travel with completed full-arch rehabilitation, implant-supported prostheses, or a veneer case and requests maintenance, repair, or an opinion. The useful question is not whether dental tourism is good or bad....  Read More
What to Consider Before Opening a Dental Practice
Opening a dental practice is both a clinical and commercial undertaking. Professional qualifications and patient care remain at the centre of the operation, but long-term success also depends on premises, staffing, compliance, cash flow and the experience created for patients.A detailed business...  Read More
Managing a demanding career while orchestrating a household requires an unbelievable amount of mental and physical fortitude. Today, more than ever, women are balancing full-time corporate roles, family dynamics, and personal aspirations despite outdated societal criticisms. This ongoing balancing...  Read More
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