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There is definitely a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. Whether it is the daylight of recovery or the headlight of the oncoming recession train still remains to be seen. Either way, your dental practice needs to be prepared for what’s on the other side. To successfully recover from the dental shutdown, you’ll […]

Your dental website is no doubt the foundation for your marketing strategy. In a post-COVID world, that foundation may need to be built stronger than before. Dental consumer priorities have changed drastically over the past few months, and your dental website marketing that once generated a steady flow of new patient leads may be less […]

Many forecasters predicted that the U.S. economy was due for a recession in 2020 anyway, but nobody can say they saw the Great Shutdown from COVID-19 coming. Some economists believe that if the coronavirus is successfully contained, it’s possible that our nation could follow a U-shaped recovery curve and return to a pre-pandemic level in […]

According to a recent poll conducted by the ADA Health Policy Institute, more than 74% of dentists have applied for the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, which can be forgiven in full and converted to a grant if the program’s requirements are met by the borrower. Of those who submitted applications, half […]

Dave Striegel, Ph.D. has been studying the neuroscience of leadership and applying it to dentistry for several years. He is convinced it can serve as a beacon of light in this storm and provide important leadership skills for dentists. “We are overwhelmed. We are afraid. We are human,” says Striegel. “To lead our teams most […]

I don’t think any of us doubt that dentistry is going to be very different when we emerge from the recovery side of this pandemic. Sure, infection control, insurance, and governing policies are all going to change, but it goes even deeper than that. After COVID-19, it won’t just be about how you treat patients. […]

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COVID-19 is probably giving you A LOT of extra time to create dental social media posts. The problem is, you may not have A LOT of ideas to post about. With your patients sitting at home, it’s a very important time to stay connected with them, but you also don’t want to bombard them with […]

With dental offices in emergency-only mode across the country during COVID-19, teledentistry is quickly gaining attention as a workaround to allow patients to get diagnoses and prescriptions from their dentists remotely. But will teledentistry disappear along with COVID-19? It doesn’t have to. And it shouldn’t. There are many reasons to consider keeping it as part […]

Within the past week, two Delta Dental member companies launched advance reimbursement programs to provide COVID-19 assistance to dentists and help mitigate their short-term cash flow burdens. Delta Dental of Iowa has launched the Advance Claims Payment Program, which will provide dentists with 50% of their average weekly claim payments in advance for four weeks. […]