Managing the Dental Team: Guidelines for Practice Success


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Provides dental practices with sample job descriptions, guidelines for handling hiring and terminations, performance evaluations, and salary reviews.




Guidelines for Practice Success: Managing Professional Risks


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Managing risks in a dental practice is something that practitioners do every day, whether they are aware of it or not. Developed by leaders in the field of dental practice management, these guidelines are based on time-tested best practices of risk management to help dentists protect themselves and their practices. Covers: managing professional risks from a clinical standpoint; dealing with patient records; charting and documentation in a secure way; how to find a legal advisor; discussing the dental team's role in risk management; transitions and other changes.




Dental Benefits and Practice Management


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Dental Benefits and Practice Management: A Guide for Successful Practices is a practical tool that helps you manage your office in tune with the realities of modern dental practice. Written by both dentists and insurance industry professionals Practical explanations to effectively and legally process claims Describes the changes in dental practice management to make your practice patient centered Competitive strategies for dentists and organizations




Success Strategies for the Aesthetic Dental Practice


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While esthetic care has been an important part of dentistry for many decades, very few practices do as much esthetic dentistry as they would like. When faced with trying to respond to esthetic demands of existing patients and expand services to potential patient populations, most clinicians must learn the skills of how to successfully manage and grow this segment of their practice. This book provides dentists with the guidelines and strategies to make that happen. The authors detail many key strategies for success, such as establishing a strategic plan, monitoring critical factors of the practice, developing a dynamic and productive team, implementing marketing, using a treatment coordinator, and understanding how to finance and schedule esthetic dentistry. In addition, each chapter is interspersed with informative interviews with some of the most successful esthetic dental practitioners from around the world who offer unique insights into how their teams operate and what has made their practices succeed.







A Dentist’s Guide to the Law


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Provides legal guidance for dental practice formation, marketing, employment, privacy and data security, disability access, contracts, antitrust, insurance, collections, reimbursement, patient treatment, and more. Covers the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, website accessibility, online ratings sites, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Includes sample agreements for associateships.




Understanding Dental Insurance


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Is Dental Insurance a Source of Problems, Frustration or Stress for Your Dental Practice? This is the most comprehensive guide ever written on the topic of dental insurance. It can serve as a training tool for those new to dental insurance, an in-depth reference for those more experienced, as well as a quick “look-up” for anyone with a question about today’s insurance landscape. Are you receiving reimbursement for 99% of your services including crowns and SRPs? Do you understand how to be highly profitable in today’s world of insurance? Is your team fully confident in the treatment plan estimates they provide patients? Do you know how to make dental insurance work for you instead of against you? If you answered no to any of these questions, you need this resource. Packed with information, illustrations, examples, tips, and case studies, this guide covers every aspect of dental insurance from claims for simple fillings to complex hybrid denture and implant cases in real life situations. It is a must-have reference for every dental office!




A Dentist's Guide to the Law


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This resource addresses the wide array of new and longstanding legal issues relevant to dental practices in a user-friendly format with additional related references and resources in each chapter. With sample contracts, checklists, and other helpful supplementary materials. Includes e-book access.




Managing Marketing: Guidelines for Practice Success


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Provides dental practices with guidelines on implenting a branding strategy, website development, print and digital marketing, referral generating techniques, and advertising.




Managing Pregnancy


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This book and e-book offers sound guidelines and insight to help dentists integrate practice management and maternity issues. Addresses the wellness and health concerns of pregnant dentists and dental team members, such as radiation usage during pregnancy and stress management. It also answers the questions office and personnel managers may have when one of their employees becomes pregnant. Includes current relevant federal and state regulations and protections related to pregnancy, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act; examples of parental and adoption benefits; safety tips for handling and administering nitrous oxide during pregnancy; discussion of postpartum mental health; advice on post-pregnancy issues such as returning to work, stress management, nursing and pumping, child care and more.