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? I do light scaling on supragingival calculus for healthy gums in about 5 min and have an RDA prophy polish maybe for 10 including OHI on an adult pt. SRPs I'm done quick for 2 quads/visit and you wouldn't know the difference with an RDH taking 1 hour to do one quad. RDH in one office did 1 hour
May 31, 2022
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give a discount. Your employee is the a great source of advertisement. Dont you want them to have the best smile possible? This includes healthy gums, beautiful restorations and so forth. We even have an agreement with the fantastic orthodontist in our community to treat our employees and family
December 22, 2014
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are you using that allowed you to negotiate the fees? GEHA is Connection and they gave me a healthy raise this last year. DHA/Sunlife begged me to join at a healthy fee schedule. That allowed me to drop Cigna and and Guardian who both begged me to stay and raise my fees significantly it picked up
April 03, 2026
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to take that risk because I read stories of people either dying or ending up in the hospital due to either perio infection or endo infection that went sepsis just about every day. The dentist I work with wants the restorative treatment to not fail so she expects the gums to be healthy when
May 09, 2017
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Our new hygienist chews gum all the time and a few patients have commented on it. She explained that she has dry mouth because of menopause and chews gum for medical reasons. Any suggestions on how to handle this? I accept her explanation but having patients comment on the gum chewing is not a good
July 15, 2020
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healthy? That's where I've landed-yes, on the surface, tardiness or inefficiency isn't ideal. But if it's not materially impacting patient care or the stability of the practice, it may be more of a leadership choice than a clear-cut problem. There can be a future cost (lost production, missed opportunity
April 20, 2026
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In your option, what kind of impression does chewing gum send? Do you allow your team to chew gum at work? Just yesterday I was watching a video of several business people interacting with a potential customer. One of the business people was chewing gum. I found it very distracting
January 08, 2014
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even a year he could see the health of his patients gums dramatically changing through proper care. I now feel respected and supported by him, but I did not in the beginning to be completely honest. We all feel the same frustrations with different job roles and that should be understood. During my
September 01, 2025
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to educate them more about occlusion, restorative work and not just allow them to stay in their own little perio/gums world. They should be able to treatment plan our patients for significant treatment plans that involve bite rehab, major restorative, etc. Empowerment is key. We also have
March 16, 2024
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Even the most tight-knit dental teams run into tension now and then. But how that conflict ismanagedcan make or break the culture of your practice. In this article, Amy Morgan explores four proactive strategies dental leaders can use to keep team dynamics healthy, from clarifying roles to creating
August 31, 2025
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, but the first has potential to cause harm to the practice. Maybe but, you're under-reacting to what's important: a DA who may lack common sense. How do you rate her as an employee overall?Egads, tell them to get some Nicorette. The lozenges as gum chewing can be very annoying. The gum
June 21, 2019
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I am an associate at my office. My company offered me a buyin opportunity and they also hired a new hygienist to help boost the office production. He is productive but everyone has gum disease according to him. Not only this but when hes charting probings it seems like he is making numbers up. He
March 03, 2024
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desk staff with 85 years combined experience.exit. For interviews, I just ask if they can chew gum and walk @ the same time. Thats my qualification to get you in the door. Once they do a quasi working interview, the team and I get a good vibe, we agree that we want to hire on attitude and train
March 15, 2024
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I need help determining my overhead if it's unhealthy. Salaries currently 75% of collection, including dentist's salary. Is this healthy or unhealthy? What's a good percentile to be in for salaries excluding the... My staff is 21% of collections. Doc's not included. 27% or less. Ideally less
April 10, 2014
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is done. anyone else doing that? Thats a great idea! How are you going to tell those patients thankfully there aren't too many of them but something along the lines of hey steve nice to see you again, we'll be able to schedule your next cleaning once the rest of your mouth is healthy. in regards
August 03, 2025
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incident and working (again!) on a patient without putting eyewear on the patient (she was cementing a temp crown). Just today, I had a crown seat patient come in and when the patients temp was off she said it was a tad sensitive so the assistant decided to rub tetracaine topical around the gums
April 08, 2021
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flight. These are all actual excuses from my life as an employer. I get it. Stuff happens. It is a lower bar. I drag my sorry ass into the office. Sometimes they need to stay home just to keep everyone else healthy. I actually required an assistant to take a Covid test a month ago. She was dragging
January 03, 2026
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? Then listen. Listen with all your senses, not just the verbal cues. The bottom-line is you are running a business that requires all team members to perform to a certain level of care for your patients. You want a healthy environment for your employees and your patients so instead of spending hours
March 25, 2019
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feel better, help them as a whole person, all the while making a decent living. But how do I find a direction from that? We have thought that we want to bring healthy smiles, healthy bodies, and healthy mind, but I still have a hard time finding the course.How do I know if I need more support staff
September 29, 2014
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option to keep your patients healthy. Spending over a third of a million dollars to offer services and 1 hour every patient day was the only way I could keep my patients healthy.
November 26, 2017
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in the bathroom ends today. She might go to the store and get Nicorette gum. What bothers me really is that she is missing most of the time. Always someone has to go fetch her when she should be right there even between patients. I could care less if she vaped outside in the parking lot behind
November 06, 2021
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of asymptomatic non-carious teeth Recall visits for periodontally healthy patients Delay all appointments for high risk patients, including ASA 2 and 3 patients, unless it is an emergency (ASA 2A patient with mild systemic disease; ASA 3A patient with severe systemic disease) a. Urgent Care
March 20, 2020
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and spluttering sounds great. While i am glad she is turning up for work and is committed, i just wish she could be healthy. I have suggested paying for flu vaccines etc - any other solutions? No one should have a perpetual sniffle or cough, she may be on drugs or have some undiagnosed or diagnosed
January 04, 2019
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I hate cooking and my wife does too. Yet we love food. With kids it's really difficult to make healthy meals they'll eat on top of that. Anyone have a personal chef and how is that working out? Sorry doc, the consensus is you cannot have a personal assistant. Ergo, you cannot have a personal chef
February 11, 2016
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and baby sit HYG temps. Stay healthy everyone! Be like me and have an old man pill box with every supplement to take every day. There's a lot of sick people right now. I'm headed to Orlando for the Dental Podfest on Thursday and was thinking about all the people hugging each other and spreading
January 30, 2025
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areas for her to evaluate. I have been undermined in front of patient's in regards to periodontal assessments after I have spent and hour discussing my concerns for their bleeding gums and bone loss. I have been told to just do an additional prophy vs perio therapy. Like I said, we can't win
November 20, 2021
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repeated reminders in their phone right there in the chair. The worst cases are ordered back in a week for a 5 minute check and usually for more ass kicking.I believe the success of a clean healthy mouth is 20% of me cleaning their teeth and 80% of me teaching them how to clean their teeth. I give them the skills of fishing not the fu@king sushi. Thats my word, because I say so. Cavitron drop.Laz I meant dental grads.
April 25, 2022
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solve today's problem while creating tomorrow's. Hiring for character and values, then training skills, leads to better long-term retention and a healthier culture that patients can feel. Finally, it encourages owners to use outside support when needed. Outsourcing complex tasks or automating routine
February 07, 2026
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family or running this business or managing my rentals. With a hygienist only available two days a week on a four day practice. How can i filter things down to keep patients? Schedule healthy peaople at one year intervals? Or nine months? Fees for a cleaning are probably the one fee in dentistry
October 25, 2022
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person on part time and give them a chance to compete with the other person. Nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Hehe If you've documented issues with the current employee and have this other gem of a temp wanting to come aboard, pull the trigger. If you let the temp go down
March 28, 2018
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office>gum on shoe>associate. YOU are the producer and harder to replace than a dime a dozen assistant. If the owner has any sense, they should want to keep you happy. This is the hierarchy (from top to bottom): -Owner dentist -Office manager -Lead assistant that's been there for like +20 years
August 05, 2023
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we are looking to make major changes in our behaviour, most things are ineffective. I'm a late 30s healthy dentist that rarely gets sick. I have two kids in school/hockey/social and one in daycare that follows them everywhere. I am very active socially and athletically so my bubble makes up a large
November 30, 2022
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the same crap when she leaves. And her followers are all likely healthy pts that see her every 6 months. I want no healthy new pts. I want pts with crappy teeth and money to fix them. Edited to add: You should inform the other doctor she likely stole patient list from him. I agree are you sure you
February 27, 2024
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progress, treatments, and home care compliance. Clean calculus deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments, including scaling and root planing for patients with periodontal disease Apply fluorides and other cavity preventing agents
January 09, 2019
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of instruments around. She is my second assistant, and I already feel over-staffed, even when she is healthy, but now I am worried she will just be more of a hindrance than a help. I don't feel that she is competent enough to work at the front desk, but I don't want to just pay her to sit around on her
June 19, 2018
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, and I decided which 4 days and the hours. God bless private practice! Yes, perio patients who do not need and exam, and healthy patients. I look over rads and intraorals and get an update from my hygienist on anything she saw that is potentially an issue on the following Monday. The boredom works
October 21, 2025
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about a healthy and respectful work place. But the way I see it, my patients look to me to see what I find acceptable and what I allow. She had no qualms about bailing on these patients, disrespecting their time and Im not about to have it seem like I am okay with it. Communication is really hard
October 21, 2024
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for their efforts and contributions ie safe and healthy, over money. Just make sure you don't undo your medical group for lack of participants. Other than that, and maybe a bunch more headaches, why couldn't you customize your pay? I'm with you 100%, but I am afraid the days of these levels of mutual
June 19, 2021
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will find that all of your at work relationships are conditional. The primary conditions being that you continue to provide employment, compensation in line with your market and a healthy/safe environment in which to work. While being friendly will make this easier - employees can and will move on even when you hit all the marks. Without seeming unkind - when it comes to business decisions it helps to keep business...business.
November 11, 2016
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. I don't have any advice to add to help the OP because I think others have said all that needs to be said. But the 5-6 meltdowns with beet red face is something that is not normal or healthy and needs to be addressed. Great thread !Love the discussion and the willingness to share the good
May 19, 2025
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be a boss. If you want to establish employee loyalty as well as longevity pay a healthy hourly wage and create a bonus system based on true production/collections. They will feel like they have skin in the game and the smarter/harder they work will be reflected in their compensation. I guarantee fewer
June 20, 2022
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honestly do not know the answer to that. She is a young, generally healthy person whoprobably does not have an overuse injury yet. The only reason I know about her workouts is because she talked about it at work. She never specifically said, I hurt my back at the gym. Its just my assumption given what
April 28, 2017
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. The issue to me is the $79/hour. Is this because she is lazy and not working as hard? I can't imagine insurance reimbursing that...What I have done when staff salaries are getting out of hand is to firmly and honestly explain to my staff that a healthy percentage for salaries is X% and that we
January 05, 2017
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, is the people who flake out the most or have intermittent visits are the ones who need the most care. but my healthies who want their twice yearly cleaning are clogging up my assets. and i'm down a full time hygienist so i get to juggle 4 hygiene days worth of recall...and new patient visits
May 17, 2023
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we are all subject to Parkinson's Law.Human nature doesn't changeand if you think this is a slight at hygiene, remember any task in your life where you tried to be accountable without a completion date. I do Saturday hygiene prophies on occasion on continuing care patients. These are healthy
March 29, 2024
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to be real with me and let me know if I had some of my lunch on my lip or chin. If it were me being told this, I'd like to be told like this by saying: I don't think a job in the dental field is for you. Here's your sign. Does she say gooms instead of gums or gingiva? I have heard that several times
September 13, 2022
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your pain ...... (>, If not....find a new an healthier receptionist. In any situation, you leave emotion out. You just stick to the facts. The fact is that you have x hours of PTO. i sympathize with you regarding getting sick, but you have PTO to use. That's pretty much it. Shut up afterwards
August 31, 2022
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are indeed my HERO!Gr8 Appreciation, respect, and a healthy team culture! I could go into a lot more detail on each of these topics, but I'll leave it at that for now. Money and benefits do matter (especially right now), but if you don't have the first three items your team will leave no matter how much you
February 03, 2022
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Anyone else having this problem?We have MOST of the staff not wanting to get the vaccine... Yes, many are young and healthy, but there seems to be an overall resistance to taking the vaccine. I havent caught it so far, so why should I seems to be the most common excuse. How to encourage
December 24, 2020
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. Withholding:Deliberately ignoring or giving the silent treatment to punish or control. Triangulation:Involving a third party to create jealousy or rivalry, manipulating relationships to their advantage. Recognizing these tactics is crucial for maintaining healthy boundaries and protecting your mental well
August 01, 2025
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