What Patients Look for in a Dentist
Dental anxiety is one of the biggest reasons why people have unhealthy teeth and gums. As a dentist, you have likely encountered certain patients that see your office as some kind of medieval torture chamber. However, you can change that perception by having many of the things that patients look for in a dentist. Here […]
Converting New Patients into Returning Patients
Patients come and go for any number of reasons, like moving to a new city or changing insurance companies. And many dental practices spend a lot of time and money recruiting new patients, since there often seems to be more practice options than patients to go around. So, once you do get a new patient […]
Helping Patients with Dental Anxiety
Anxiety associated with dental appointments is a steadily rising phenomenon. In fact, dental anxiety is often closely associated with phobias like dentophobia or odontophobia. For many patients, the anxiety they feel when going to the dentist isn’t usually due to something that happened at your office. It’s most often caused by negative previous experiences, the […]
Exercises to Help Reduce Low Back Pain
Back pain is a common problem in the dental industry. It’s such a problem that it’s not uncommon for this pain to cause dentists and hygienists to leave their career earlier than they’d originally planned. Luckily, there’s a lot that dental office staff can do to relieve some of this lower back pain, even beyond […]
Choosing the Right Dental Headrest
Dentists and hygienists often have to strain themselves in order to work on a patient who doesn’t fit properly into a standard dental chair. This can cause long term negative effects for their back, neck, muscles and joints. So, how can dentists and hygienists maintain proper ergonomic postures while working on their patients? The answer […]
5 Stretches to Help Dentists Relieve Pain
In every grade school gym class and at least once during every drop-in exercise class at local training facilities, instructors stress the importance of stretching. So, that leaves many of us adding stretches to our before and after workout routines. What many people don’t realize is they should be stretching throughout the entire day. This […]
How to Create a Great Dental Office Atmosphere
We hear from a lot from dentists and their office staff that they’re always on the lookout for new ways to increase patient retention and reduce patient cancellations. Whether that means changing the way their staff sends appointment reminders, providing a better dental headrest, or even changing a few things around the office, they’re looking […]
Are your Patients Properly Positioned?
Properly positioning patients during dental procedures has a huge impact on both patient comfort and operator health. It has proven itself to be one of the most prominent contributors to the pain and strain felt in the spinal segments of an operator’s neck and back, as well as musculoskeletal issues associated with the hands and […]