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Are you interested in dentistry and are you looking for a job? Are you still struggling to manage the process of examining a person's mouth? A dental technician is an excellent option.
Also known as dental laboratory technicians, dental technicians have been trained to create dental appliances like dentures, crowns, bridges and braces.
In simple words, he is a dentist's skilled craftsman. Let's now discuss the role and responsibilities of a dental technician.

As a dental technician, he can create the necessary dental prostheses for patients. The dentist will work with the dental technician to create the best solution for patients after obtaining a detailed prescription, photos and digital data.

There is a high demand for many health care professionals these days, including dentists and surgeons. To treat all problems related to the mouth, they are needed in dentistry. Dental technicians play a vital role in this process.

These are people who have the skills to design, construct, adjust, and repair a wide range of dental appliances such as dental lab vacuum mixer or dental duplicating machine. They usually work with impressions taken by dentists or dental hygienists, who handle the patients' teeth.

Dental technicians play a crucial role in the team. It is difficult for dentists to practice without them. Dental technicians are not in direct contact with patients.

There are four specialties available in the field of dental technician specialty.
Technicians in prosthodontist -- These individuals are skilled in the design and manufacture of dentures. These dentures will usually be made from acrylic or chrome-cobalt.
Orthodontic technicians -- These people specialize in creating and making braces, which can be used to align the teeth.
Conservation technicians -- These experts are focused on the production of bridgework and crowns. These technicians will use a variety materials including gold, porcelain and metal alloys to create these devices.
Maxillofacial technicians -- They are the ones responsible for reconstructing faces damaged by accidents or from diseases.
A dental technician can choose to be a generalist, producing many different devices. Or, he may choose to specialize in any of the areas mentioned above.

What Is Tooth Sensitivity : 

Tooth Sensitivity is a very common problem in 80% of the population of every age group. Tooth sensitivity is mainly called dentinal sensitivity of the tooth. When upper and most hard layer of teeth Enamel is worn off dentine is exposed which is a sensitive layer of teeth and it causes sensitivity to the person while drinking cold or hot beverages, while eating sweet food, or even by high acidic food.

Reasons Of Tooth Sensitivity : 

There are many reasons in every individual why you may be facing tooth sensitivity. Some of the leading causes of tooth sensitivity are:

• Gum Disease
• Worn or cracked fillings
• Worn tooth enamel
• Exposed tooth root
• Poor Oral Hygiene practices 
• Fractured teeth
• No proper dental visits
• Smoking tobacco

Tips to Reduce Tooth Sensitivity :

• Oral hygiene should be maintained properly for every age group. Ask our best dentists of Udaipur for a proper brushing and flossing method which will reduce the sensitivity. 
• Use Fluoridated dental pastes. Fluoride creates a protective layover over the teeth, which provides strength to the enamel and shields the teeth from harsh temperatures & acidic foods. 
• Take it a step further and use a prescribed toothpaste from our dentists. 
• Use a soft-bristled toothbrush. Hard bristles can damage your enamel by abrasion and causes sensitivity. 
• Brushing technique gently and slowly, in a circular motion along with your teeth and gums. This will remove plaque and bacteria without damaging your teeth and gums. 
• Avoid super sweet and acidic food. Soda, sticky candy, and high-carb diets all attack tooth enamel and can contribute to sensitive teeth. 
• Visit our dentist regularly and take the best dental opinion.  Our dentists are experts to evaluate the causes of sensitivity and resolve it. 

We at Mumbai dental clinic & Implant center: Udaipur provide all kinds of treatment for sensitivity. Our experts are specialized for all age groups to provide the best dental treatment in Udaipur. We recommend visiting twice in a year for a routine dental check-up and maintain your oral cavity as advised by our dentists.

Also Read - Dental Implant - Preparation, Steps and Results

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Dr. Siddharth Jain

He is the Soul of this dentistry practice. A proficient dentist and Implantologist, Dr. Siddharth comes with over 10 years of rich experience and niche skills in his field. His mission is to provide comprehensive dental services to all patients in an environment that is safe, reassuringly pleasant, and comfortable. Dr. Jain’s expertise goes beyond routine cases, into Implantologist, Laser surgeries, etc. He believes in constantly upgrading his skills and regularly attends conferences and workshops to keep abreast with the latest technology. He is a Member Of IDA, DCI, ISOI, and many more renowned associations of dentistry. 

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While many dentists use traditional dentistry procedures, laser dentistry is becoming popular nowadays because of its convenient, quick, and pain-free techniques. The most common dental problems, such as gum disease and tooth decay, were once treated by traditional dentistry but are now treated by laser dentistry. 

Traditional dentistry uses drills, enamel scissors, rotary tools, and cleaning brushes, which can cause vibrations that can lead to pain. In contrast, laser dentistry uses dental lasers, which can eliminate such pain and inconvenience. LASER is the abbreviation for “light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation.” When the laser hits tooth or gum tissues, it will emit an energy beam that removes or shapes the tissue. 

Lasers are highly accurate, allowing your dentist to treat the specific area without hurting the surrounding teeth or gum tissue. They are safe to use in people of all ages. However, it cannot do certain procedures, including polishing, filling, or treating cavities in tight spaces.  

Laser Procedures

Laser dentistry involves two types of procedures, including:

• Hard Tissue Procedures
  • Treating tooth sensitivity 
  • Cavity detection
  • Tooth preparation and dental fillings
• Soft Tissue Procedures
  • Removing soft tissue folds
  • Treating gummy smiles
  • Treating tongue frenulum attachment
  • Crown lengthening 
• Other laser procedures include:
  • Teeth whitening.
  • Removing benign tumors from gums, palate, and sides of lips and cheeks.
  • Viewing inside a tooth or gum tissue.
  • Treating cold sores.
  • Treating sleep apnea caused by tissue overgrowth in the throat.

Cost of Laser Treatments

The cost of laser treatments depends on the type of laser equipment and procedure used. However, laser treatments are cost-effective compared to traditional dentistry, as they can be completed in fewer sessions. Additionally, your dental insurance reimbursement costs are likely to remain the same as it would with conventional dentistry procedures. Discuss with your insurance agent about reimbursements related to laser dentistry procedures regarding your specific policy.

Types of Lasers Used

Dentists use either soft tissue or hard tissue lasers or sometimes both, depending on the treatment type. 

Hard Tissue Lasers

They can cut through the tooth structure, and their wavelengths are absorbed through the combination of water and a mineral found in teeth. These lasers are mostly used to:

• Prepare or shape teeth for composite bonding.
• Remove some tooth structure. 
• Repair worn-down fillings.

Soft Tissue Lasers 

These lasers are absorbed through water and hemoglobin, a protein present in red blood cells. They seal blood vessels and nerve endings while they penetrate the tissue, causing no pain after the treatment and promoting faster healing. Soft tissue lasers are used to treat periodontitis, including killing bacteria and activating tissue regeneration. 

Benefits of Laser Dentistry 

• Soft tissue laser procedures are painless and suture-free. 
• Laser minimizes swelling and bleeding, as it promotes blood clotting.
• Anesthesia is not required for certain laser procedures.
• The potential for bacterial infections is reduced because the laser sterilizes the area, accelerating the healing process and tissue regeneration.
• Laser procedures cause minimal damage to the surrounding tissues.

Disadvantages of Laser Dentistry

• Laser procedure has a risk of gum injury.
• Hard lasers can occasionally injure tooth pulp.
• Lasers cannot be used over teeth that contain metal amalgam fillings.
• Sometimes drills are required to complete fillings, including shaping and polishing the filling and adjusting the bite.
• Laser treatments are unsuitable for certain procedures, depending on the components involving the tooth or gums or preexisting surrounding tissue.

Though laser dentistry reduces the risk of side effects, finding an experienced and highly-qualified dentist is essential. First, weigh the risks and benefits of both traditional and laser procedures and then discuss with your dentist the appropriate dental approach to treat your condition effectively.  

Our dentists in West Des Moines will treat your dental condition with the latest technology, focusing on your long-term oral health. Call us today to schedule an appointment.

Handling insurances have been a real pain for dental practices over the past few years. Learn from the expert on how to push back your outdated insurance systems and focus on taking your revenue cycle to the next level of operational efficiency. 

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Online patient registration can improve the patient experience, increase practice efficiency, and reduce the management burden on your staff.

Here’s how:

Improving the patient experience

Most patients are provided a clipboard stacked with paperwork when they walk into the average dental office. Filling out all of that paperwork right before the appointment progress the amount of time spent at the office, and the amount of time devoted to their dental appointment in an already busy day.

With online patient registration, your patients receive a link in an appointment confirmation email stating them to a secure online form they can complete at home, at their convenience. The information they provide demographics, health history, and insurance which is then transmitted to the new patient record in your practice management software automatically when they submit the form.

It would be natural, with everything going on, to return to what you were doing for marketing before the pandemic; running the same internal initiatives and resuming whatever external efforts you had in place. Will this work? While we don’t know for sure, considering patients may be hesitant to return to care quickly, the possibility of a resurgence of the virus, and the fact that dental practices will be competing for patients – signals a change to your approach may be in order. 

When the patient reaches the office for their appointment, they can go straight to the operatory once they’ve checked in because you already have all of their information in the patient record saved. This means they can be on their way much more quickly than when they had to spend 20 minutes at the beginning of each appointment filling out paper forms in your waiting area.

Increasing practice efficiency and reducing the administrative burden

If your patients submit an online registration form ahead of time, you’ve taken a task off of the front desk’s plate, comforting your team to do other important things like help a patient schedule a follow-up appointment before they exit.

What’s more important is, electronic forms can reduce data entry errors related to transcription. Anyone who has worked the front desk knows that patient handwriting can be difficult to read at times, and even the best employees reading perfectly legible handwriting can make the occasional typo when entering information from paper forms into your dental practice management software. 

Electronic forms don’t eliminate data entry errors completely; they're still recording inputs from humans, and no one is perfect, but they can certainly help reduce the potential for error.

The benefits are clear, but not all dental practice management software is created equal. Most dental practices in the U.S. are still running on outdated software, which doesn’t allow for online patient-facing features like patient registration. Some creative practices have managed to build a workaround using custom-built online cloud forms, but those typically require manual upload into the practice management software, which doesn’t go all the way in reducing the administrative burden on staff as well.

To conclude the most important need of the moment for any business is to maximum convert the process online. 

CareStack Enterprise™  is an all-in-one cloud-based dental practice management software for growing multi-location practices, DSOs, and solo practices. At CareStack, we work with dentists around the country to help them increase their new patient appointments and overall patient satisfaction as they invest in dental scheduling software for their practices. With a number of features, CareStack helps dentists to manage their daily appointments, anytime, anywhere

Book a demo with CareStack to integrate the amazing features within your practice website and experience for yourself the rapid increase in your appointment volume and practice profitability.

It would be natural, with everything going on, to return to what you were doing for marketing before the pandemic; running the same internal initiatives and resuming whatever external efforts you had in place. Will this work? 

While we don’t know for sure, considering patients may be hesitant to return to care quickly, the possibility of a resurgence of the virus, and the fact that dental practices will be competing for patients – signals a change to your approach may be in order. Even if your practice has pent up demand now – marketing is vital to what happens in your practice 3-6 months from now. Creating a road map for your practice’s marketing efforts will help you implement recommendations to ensure your practice stays on track.

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan

We encourage you to have an overarching strategy for your approach. This is not the time for disjointed efforts. Consistent messaging is key.

Who Is Your Target Audience?

Once you know your audience, craft content that is consistent with what they want to know. Appealing to your overall community? You might want to show your social responsibility as a dental practice and business. Appealing to current patients? Consider content about safety and cleanliness. Looking for new patients? Discuss convenient hours, virtual consultations, safety procedures, and readiness to serve.

As part of your plan, consider:

• What are your business growth goals for the rest of 2020?

• Re-visiting your marketing budget for 2020 

• What marketing already exists that you can leverage?

• Outlining the new initiatives you want to focus on

• Measuring your results

• Re-evaluating your efforts quarterly

You should have an external and an internal focus to your marketing efforts – all sharing consistent messaging, designed for your target audience, all linked so you are marketing smarter and using resources wisely.

 External Marketing

1.  Website

Your website is a powerful platform that forms the bedrock of your marketing efforts. All other marketing efforts should lead a patient and prospective patient back to your site. Ensure this by:

• Updating your site, if it is not responsive or loads slowly. Prospective patients will move on to the next practice. According to StatisticBrain.com, website users’ attention spans lie somewhere around 8 seconds.

• Maintain or enhance SEO efforts to keep your organic search optimization high. 

• Consider adding a Safety page to your site; detail what your practice is doing to keep patients safe.

• Add an FAQ page spotlighting hot buttons for patients right now: convenient practice hours, teledentistry offering, your membership plan, payment options, and treatment to support a job search like whitening.

• Make necessary changes to ensure easy navigation to find your office hours, phone number means to schedule and a bio for the doctor(s)

 2. Social Media

• Post 1-3 times per week on the top two platforms in dental – Facebook and Instagram. Keep these posts positive, real, personal, forward-looking, and fun.

• When you post, be sure to include your branded hashtag and a “follow us on” any other platforms the practice is on.

• Social distancing has prompted a higher social media engagement from people searching for social connections. Consider boosting your Facebook posts. Boosted posts are an inexpensive way to capitalize on the higher-than-average social engagement during this time. 

Reputation Management

Update review sites (Google, Yelp, HealthGrades, and Facebook) with open announcements, stressing steps you have taken to keep patients safe. (The opportunity to complete a review on Google was turned back on at the end of April.)

• Ask for reviews. A recent survey showed that almost 70 percent of customers are willing to provide feedback when requested. 

• Put direct links to your feedback profiles in multiple places, for example, in a thank you or follow-up email.

• Focus on your average ratings (4.5 and above is key), getting recent reviews, and getting more reviews.

• Respond to reviews, positive, neutral, and negative. Prospective patients need to hear the voice of the practice as well as the reviewer. Keep responses to negative reviews short by inviting the patient to call in, so you can help resolve their issues, while respecting HIPAA laws

Internal Marketing

While marketing efforts often focus on gaining new patients, some of your current patients could be considering a change in dentist due to a change in benefits, job, or perceived lack of care or safety measures from your practice during the pandemic. Be proactive and be sure to reconnect with current patients. They are the most reliable revenue source for you right now.

1. Connect with Patients

Call or email your patients personally, to connect. This will leave a lasting impression. If you have a large patient base, contact those with outstanding treatment first, long-term patients next, followed by the remaining patient base.

• If you are unable to call, connect via email and text through your patient connection software. Messages ending in “we are looking forward to seeing you again; call for an appointment” will leave your patient feel cared for.

• You may have postponed community events. Take this opportunity to test digital alternatives to stay in front of current patients, referring dentists, and community groups.

• Email newsletters – This format has a 25-30% open rate right now.1 Constant Contact or Mailchimp are easy and inexpensive online marketing platforms to use.

• A: Ask for Referrals

• Now more than ever, your entire team needs to be personally asking for referrals.

• Carve out time at a team meeting to share times and ways to ask.

• When a patient compliments the office… “Thank you. We really appreciate your feedback. We are accepting new patients, so if you have a friend or family member who’s looking for a new dentist, we would love to see them.”

• Send a hand-written thank you note to patients who have referred to you.

2. Patient Experience

Future referrals depend on creating a patient experience that leaves patients feeling as though they are well cared for by skilled, caring professionals. Review your patient experience and make any needed changes. Solicit suggestions from your team, review other practices’ websites and social media for ideas.

Conclusion

Above all, consistent focus on your marketing efforts and consistent messaging should empower your practice to not only rebound but slingshot to greater success. If you’d like professional support with your marketing, we have vetted referral sources. The Practice Support Team will be standing by to support you.

Greater adherence to recommended care, better clinical care, and health care quality outcomes are associated with positive patient care experiences. It applies to all forms of health care including dental. A patient should have access to dental care when it is most needed. In that way, the patient scheduling process gains importance as it contributes to patient experience and overall satisfaction. Patients will stick on to a dental practice only when they get prompt appointments and needn't have to wait for long periods. Otherwise, it will lead to negative responses and reduced revenue.

The handling of patient scheduling has a direct impact on the overall performance of a practice. A hassle-free patient appointment process boosts the reputation and helps the practice gain more patients through the reference. Technology tools can be used to make scheduling an easy and smooth process for the patients.

• Online scheduling: Patients should be provided with the facility to book their dental appointments online. It helps them choose the most convenient time for consultation. Online booking can be either through your patient portal or through a mobile app. As all the patients won't be using an online booking facility, the practice staff has to make sure that online appointments are synchronized with appointments booked offline, i.e, through phone or in person.
• Digital intake form: Online booking can be accompanied by a pre-check-in facility to fill in details like patient health history, allergies, medications, insurance, and method of payment, etc. A digital intake form for the patient to key in all these details is a must in a comprehensive care system. This will considerably reduce the waiting time while the in-office visit happens.
• Appointment reminders: Patients need to be reminded of their scheduled appointments from time to time. For this pre-scheduled auto-reminder systems can be used to send out appointment reminders to patients via text or email. This system ensures the presence of the patient for consultation as per schedule eliminating no-shows. These no-shows have several adverse implications on a dental practice including poorer health outcomes for patients and disruption in your organizational workflow. Auto-reminder systems save precious time your staff otherwise have spent manually notifying patients through text or call.
• Automated recalling: All patients who require periodic appointments may not reschedule. For patients who require recurring or regular appointments, automated recalling systems are great. This can also be used to make the best out of healthcare-focused national observances by reaching out to patients to get their various screenings done, with some waivers and offers. This is done by sending automated emails and text to your patient base.

A practice needs to develop a scheduling policy that contains all the details like what happens with a missed appointment, canceling less than 24 hours prior, no-show fees if any, etc. The policy should be communicated to the patients in advance. The staff at the dental office need to be given advanced training to use and manage the technology used. The staff should also be thorough about the policies implemented so that they can explain it to the patients easily.

Recent studies have found that 44% of patients prefer online scheduling and paperless onboarding. This has encouraged dental practices to go for technological innovations that will boost their patient experience. The CS Enterprise from CareStack is one such example, purpose-built for dental enterprises to maximize efficiency through centralization, automation, and analytics. It is an enterprise-grade cloud-based practice management software with capabilities for centralization that will help to achieve the full potential inherent in scale. Its usage among practices results in lower no-show rates, increased capacity to see patients, better patient adherence, and above all higher revenue.

It’s a simple fact: if you like your dentist and the office staff, you are more likely to return for your check-ups, follow their advice and keep your pleasant smile. It’s very important that you select a dentist that you trust. This person will be your ally in creating a healthy mouth that will let you enjoy everything from eating your favorite foods to laughing with your friends for years to come.

What problems are you solving?

It’s a basic but necessary question to ask what am I going to use this software for? Dental software solutions provide many tools to help professionals with necessary administrative tasks. Features may include:

• Appointment scheduling and reminders
• Recall systems
• Document management
• Clinical applications
• Patient relationship management
• Insurance and government coverage support
• Compliance
• Reporting and analytics
• Marketing

Each dental software system offers different features. Assessing your practice’s needs is the first step toward choosing the software that can best improve patient experience and business growth.

2. Is it easy to use?

Most employees expect an understanding  and easy-to-use platform in their workspace. All staff in the front and back offices should be trained easily on how to use the technology smoothly.

When choosing software, let all stakeholders take part in a demo if possible. Listen to everyone’s opinions on whether they had an enjoyable experience using the software. If all stakeholders had a pleasant time adjusting to the new solution, there are likely to be fewer frustrations with it down the road. Happy staff means happy patients. It’s a win-win.

3. What is the cost?

When it comes to investing in new or updated software, one of the most important factors is cost. Many factors can affect the cost of dental solutions, including whether it’s server or cloud-based, its functionality, its updates and scalability, the security, and whether or not it offers continued support.

When determining how much you’re willing to spend on a new platform, consider what value this product will bring to your practice. Spending more on a high-quality platform might speed up income and reduce loss, which will improve your overall return on investment.

4. How are training and support?

Let’s face it, as a dental practitioner, you didn’t go to school for information technology development. Dental management solutions have many advanced features that can help you grow your practice, but they’re only useful if you know how to use them.

Many modern dental systems are software as a service (SaaS) products. When you pay for a SaaS product, your customer experience does not end when you install the software. You can expect continued support, training, analysis and consultation on how to best use the software for your business. Whether you’re a  family operated clinic or an enterprise level network, dental IT experts can guide you and enrich your practice.

5. Do your peers trust this product?

The most proven way to select a trustworthy software is to learn from your peers. Reading marketing materials will provide you with insights on what a product does, but your peers can tell you honestly how dental software has impacted their businesses. Verified user reviews are a great way to learn from other dental professionals about the most effective and beneficial technologies available. If you have queries or doubts about a dental SaaS product, a salesperson will usually give you biased information, but fellow dental professionals will tell you the truth.

There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing the right provider for your practice. It may feel like a huge investment of staff time to understand the priority needs of your practice. However, in the end, all your hard work can help ensure you’ve selected the right technology for you.

When a dental practice needs an additional team member and you have determined that you need to hire another employee there are so many factors aligned along the same. This decision is  made for one of two reasons:

1. Your ability to increase production, provide better service for patients, or support the current providers in the practice is hindered because you don’t have enough team members to cover.
2. You have a demand for a specific skill that is not present in your existing team, for example, PDA or treatment coordinator.

When you hire someone, you need to do it correctly and seriously, which means doing it in the most cost-effective and time-efficient manner possible. Hiring a new employee may seem like a fairly straightforward endeavor, but it’s important not to decide before you carefully prepare. 

Factors to Improve Employees Quality in  Dental Practice

While there are never any guarantees that the person you hire will work out, there are some steps you can take to attract the best candidates and precautions you can take to improve your chances of making a good decision.

Determining what you need

Before you start the process of hiring somebody for a new vacancy, you must know what you’re looking for. The more completely you understand the position for which you’ll be interviewing, the better you’ll be able to evaluate applicants and choose the apt ones for consideration. 

Job descriptions and specifications are two tools that will help a great deal in evaluating all the potential candidates. A job description is a written record of the responsibilities of a respective job. It indicates the qualifications required for the position and outlines how the job is relevant to others in the practice. In a clean, concise manner, the job description should indicate position title, salary or compensation method, area that person will work in, to whom they are accountable, their work schedule, a summary of the job, major responsibilities, and qualifications needed for it.

The job description should be organized in such a way that it indicates not only the responsibilities but also the vitality of these responsibilities. Within the categories mentioned above, including such information as the following examples computer experience required working conditions, and terms of employment.

If the position is new, the job description will help you clarify what the position demands and the necessary qualifications. If you’re filling a position that ‘s been vacated, and if it’s possible to do so, ask the departing employee to update the entire job description. Job descriptions can become quickly outdated. A former employee may also help you review the job description to determine if activities being performed still add value to the practice.

It is important to be able to answer these questions:

• What is the purpose of the job?
• What day-to-day duties are performed?
• What other duties are performed?
• How is the position supervised?
• How much or how little control is exercised over this position?
• What instruments, computers, or equipment must be used?
• What external or internal contacts are required?
• What verbal, numerical, or computer skills are necessary?

Determining the requirements of the position

When you’re deciding on the hiring criteria, you’ll need to examine experience, education, intelligence, and personality requirements. By establishing these requirements objectively by making use of the job analysis, job descriptions, and job specifications, you will eliminate bias that might be caused by poor values, and you’ll be able to look objectively at the traits tied to the performance of the job.

As you define selection criteria, you will need to look at the job performance of the former employee and isolate a few characteristics that have the most impact on successful job performance.

Before you start your search for qualified applicants, consider education, experience, physical requirements, and personality requirements. Be conscious that each requirement you identify is specifically job-related. This can help prevent potential problems later. Don’t make these job determinations in a vacuum. Ask the other team members for their perspective.

Managing overdue payments can be a huge challenge for dental practices. So it's important for dental providers to have an effective patient payment collection strategy in order to reduce bad debt and protect their practice’s financial well-being. An effective way to drive timely patient payments is to send reminders via automated text communications.

Text to pay is a payment solution that allows consumers to make a payment via texting on their smartphones. This is a huge opportunity for dental providers to start incorporating text reminders into their patient payment collection strategy leveraging the same automated technology that dental providers use to send appointment reminders. 

Benefits: Convenience, Speed & Personalization

Empower your patients with the easiest way to pay their balances so that your dental practice can collect more payments in less time; improving the revenue generated!  

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Reputation is an unavoidable aspect of a business, be it a new one or a well-established one. Maintaining a good reputation for your dental practice will go a long way in helping acquire new patients and in improving revenue. Here we will investigate how you can exponentially increase your client base, using proper reputation management.

Reputation Management can be carried out locally, i,e offline, or Online. Offline reputation management is the traditional form of improving your brand value by offering special discounts and offers to the local residents and engaging in community events.

We will be concentrating more on Online reputation management, as it is seen that most practices give the least importance to that.

Online Reputation Management refers to the creation and maintenance of an online presence or profile for your practice. It demands work and won’t yield results unless acted upon proactively. The entirety of the internet is available to broadcast and attract new clients. We will look into a few methods to make the most of the services online.

Cementing an Online Presence

It is essential that your practice has an online presence in all major social media sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Having accounts on these sites will ensure maximum reach and cater to audiences that are confined to some sites.

Search Engine Optimization

Needless to say, you must have a website for your practice as a way of verification and to obtain more information. SEO is a set of techniques used to optimize your website and as a result, end up higher in search results. You could hire an SEO specialist or contact an SEO company to do it for you.

Managing Online Reviews

The best way anyone online will know about you is by reviews on review sites like Yelp and rateMDS. Ensuring that you have good reviews will encourage more patients to choose your dental practice over others. As with anything else, there may be negative reviews, but rather than trying to get those off the site, we suggest responding to them positively and taking them as constructive criticism.

Using Social Media to Understand Patient Requirements

Having a social presence is only the start. Creating and posting relevant materials online regularly facilitates more reach. The reach and acceptance of each post can be monitored using the analytics features available. Maintaining a consistent and pleasant attitude with your audience will boost your ratings.

Having an Active Blog

This may seem odd but having a regularly updated blog goes a long way in improving your presence online. Not only does it show off passion towards the field, willingness to share knowledge and it can also feature practices and services your practice offers. It also invites people to suggest and discuss between themselves the need for proper dental care.

Running Email and Social Campaigns

In order to let your current customers and viable prospects know about the various services you offer, you could use online promotional and email campaigns. All of these can contain reviews and testimonials of satisfied customers from your practice.

Local PR and Partnerships

Reaching out and having tie-ups with community clubs to provide periodic checkups for its members and their families will help spread the news of your practice and help get more clients.

Social Responsibility

Being part of charities and local causes can help your dental practice earn a good reputation and gain value among the residents of the community. It serves the purpose of reputation boosting and the act of giving back to society. Simply put, create a genuine consistent presence that upholds the morals and values of your dental practice. Be it a simple website with a blog and an interactive social media handle, or an elaborate social network with Stay tuned for more!

The past few weeks have been difficult for all of us. The dental industry has also been affected extensively by this, with most of the practices forced to close its doors and the staff asked to stay at home. We are seeing instances where businesses are resorting to extreme measures such as laying off staff or even permanently shutting down practices due to lack of business. Given the circumstances, the best way dental practices can keep functioning and provide services is through the proper utilization of technology and careful management of business finances. This is where teledentistry comes in.

What is teledentistry?

Telemedicine and in extension, Teledentistry, have been around for quite a while. It is primarily used for situations where patients do not have access to dental services easily, like rural areas (which amounts to almost 20% of Americans). Teledentistry refers to the utilization of technologies like live video conferencing and online portals to run “Tele-appointments”, where dentists are consulted by patients over a live video channel.

During this virtual appointment, the dentist and the accompanying treatment coordinator provides the patient with necessary dental advice and sets up an emergency in-person appointment if necessary.

In some cases, patients and dentists may not be able to meet each other online in real-time. In such situations patients can record their queries, the dentists can view them later and get back with solutions.

What are the benefits of using Teledentistry?

Teledentistry can make patients feel safer as they can get the dentist’s services sitting in the safety of their homes. As they do not meet the dentists or travel to the practice they will have nothing to worry about catching an unwanted infection. Even if a patient needs an emergency in-person appointment, all the follow up can still happen online.

Dentists can also save the money they spend on maintaining a large office if they can use teleconsultations. Not to mention the travel cost savings both to the dentist and the patient.

How can your dental practice offer Tele-Appointments?

Currently, HIPAA regulations have been modified to allow dentists and patients to use non-public facing technologies like Apple FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video chat, Google Hangouts video or Skype for tele-appointments. According to the current rules, they can continue to use these technologies till the lockdown is over. But dentists should avoid using public-facing technologies like Facebook Live, Twitch and TikTok. Further, the allowed platforms are not completely safe, so the dentists must inform the patients about privacy risks and use encryption wherever possible.

Tele-appointments and Claim Reimbursements

Patients do not have anything to worry about how to pay for teledentistry appointments. This is because most insurance carriers have announced they will cover the costs if patients seek teledentistry services during the lockdown phase. All that dentists and patients need to do is ensure the special codes, D9995 (synchronous) and D9996 (asynchronous), are specified while submitting the claims.

Offering Teledentistry options to your patients

Any dentist can offer tele-appointments but if a dental practice has an automated practice management system then it can offer teledentistry way more safely. Patients may be worried about data safety while using common online portals for tele-appointments and may even avoid using it altogether. But if you have a secure, HIPAA compliant, interactive teledentistry product to offer them, they are more likely to choose you.

Taking your dental practice one step further

Several cutting-edge dental practice management software (PMS) like CareStack offers just that. With CareStack, dentists and patients can meet on extremely safe, cloud-based encrypted platforms and there will be no data leak worries. Also, CareStack has an inbuilt audio and video interface that will allow dentists to securely meet their patients synchronously (real-time) or asynchronously (recorded and forwarded), do an online triage, exchange clinical documents like x-rays or test reports and prescribe medicines online.

Pregnancy is a time where a woman's body goes through a variety of changes. Women go through many things during pregnancy like morning sickness, nausea, hormonal changes, change in body weight, and many other things that are difficult to deal with. Dealing with these changes, women often forget about taking care of their dental health. 

Here are a few dental tips to keep in mind during pregnancy. 

Avoid OTC painkillers  

During pregnancy, due to hormonal changes, many dental issues like swollen gums and toothache arise. Many Dentists in Udaipur advice not to take over the counter painkillers to treat toothache unless it is prescribed by the physician. Taking painkillers without a doctor’s permission can put the health of the mother and the baby at risk. It is better to consult both your dentist and physician before taking any medicine for dental issues. 

Brush before going to Bed 

Pregnancy or no pregnancy, always brushes your teeth before going to bed. During pregnancy, you are already at an increased risk of tooth decay, and consumption of more carbohydrates can put you at more risk of getting tooth decay. Brushing before going to bed will remove all debris of food you have eaten during the day from your teeth. Morning sickness and nausea increase acid production in your mouth, which can damage the outer protective layer of teeth. Brushing before going to bed will remove the excess acid from your mouth. 

Remember to floss 

Flossing is important for your good dental health. Poor dental health during pregnancy can risk the health of the baby. Many studies have linked poor dental health to premature birth and low birth weight in babies. Dental Clinics in Udaipur advice their patients to floss regularly, as flossing helps in removing plaque and food stuck between your teeth. Flossing also helps in clearing the space between teeth where a toothbrush cannot reach. Flossing also prevents tooth decay and gum diseases. 

Visit the Dentist regularly 

It is important to visit the dentist regularly as it will help you to keep a check on your dental health. Normally a person should visit the dentist twice or thrice a year. 

During pregnancy, visiting a dentist is suggested to keep a check on your oral health. Experienced dentists can identify the underlying dental issues and will solve them. Regular visits will help dentists to detect possible problems, which can cause issues during pregnancy. Your dentist will also suggest some dental care tips during pregnancy. There dentists who provide Dental Treatment Services in Udaipur for pregnant ladies at affordable costs. 

Avoid midnight snacking 

During pregnancy, food cravings don't really care about the time. But eating at midnight can cause you some serious dental issues like cavities. Avoid snacking at midnight, if you still want to have snacks, avoid sugary and sticky food. Always remember to brush your teeth before going back to sleep. 

Stay hydrated 

Dry mouth is common during pregnancy and it can put the women at a greater risk of getting tooth decay and gum infections. Dry mouth can also create problems in chewing and swallowing food. Keep drinking water to avoid dry mouth, you can also have sugar free chewing gums to increase the saliva production.

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Should I contact the dentist in Ahmedabad for teeth straightening?

What will involve in dental surgery?

Reasons to seek orthodontic treatment

• For good hygiene your teeth are crooked then it will become difficult to clean the teeth. And, if it is not cleaned properly then there remains an increased risk of tooth decay and gum disease.

Gum damage

• can be the possibility of gum damage if your teeth are excessively overlapping or if they are poor-positioned. In this situation, an orthodontist can help by alleviating the jaw-joint problems and pain around the joint. Thus, it is important to correct poor teeth and jaw to improve the speech and entire look.

Tooth wear can be problematic

• the tooth isn’t fit together completely then it can affect the appearance in the long run and it will affect the tooth.

How does the surgery affect your life and impact on health?

• It will increase self-confidence
• It can improve the overall body health
• It will enhance the look & beauty

End of the buzz!

Dental veneers are thin shells that cover the front surface of your teeth. We use porcelain or composite veneers to cover the stained, worn down, chipped, cracked, or slightly oddly shaped teeth. Veneers on teeth can also close or minimize gaps and teeth longer. As an alternative to orthodontic treatment, veneers’ dental restoration can bring teeth back into alignment to create a more cosmetically perfect smile. Although slightly more expensive, porcelain veneers are long-lasting, and with the proper care, should last ten years or longer. Also, veneers made of porcelain cannot stain or change its shade.

Visit our center for dental veneers to meet the best in class, top-rated cosmetic dentists to experience the best quality porcelain veneers Yonkers has to offer.

A beautiful smile makes all the difference when it comes to your self-confidence. Small teeth in adults, gaps in your teeth or tooth discoloration all compromise the look of your smile. Your cosmetic dentist can help you determine if porcelain veneers are the right choice for you.

Veneers for teeth are thin pieces of tooth-colored material that are molded to fit your teeth. Their goal is to change the size, color or shape of your teeth for a more even look. Veneers can enhance:
- Teeth that are discolored from root canals, fillings or other procedures
- Chipped or broken teeth
- Irregular teeth or small teeth in adults
- Teeth with gaps
- Any other dental issues that cause a lack of confidence

What Are Porcelain Veneers and When to Choose Them?
Over the past few years, cosmetic dentistry has advanced considerably, and one of the most popular and widely used innovations is porcelain veneers. The materials used to fabricate dental porcelain laminates have improved tremendously, as have the techniques utilized to create them. Probably the main reason why this cosmetic solution is so popular is that it can transform a smile. If you already have nice teeth, it’s easy to underestimate the importance of smiling, but it’s a way we express emotions and communicate with others.

However, people who are less confident about the appearance of their teeth tend to smile infrequently, if at all. They will often cover their mouths with their hands or will smile with their mouth closed.

What Is A Porcelain Veneer?
A veneer is a term used to describe a very thin covering, and the same applies when describing a porcelain veneer used in dentistry. It consists of a very thin porcelain shell, custom-made to fit precisely over the front surface of the tooth.

It all depends on the size and shape of your teeth, to begin with, and the type of veneer chosen by your dentist. Conventional teeth varnishes are approximately 0.5 mm in thickness, but there are what are called prepless veneers and which are considerably thinner, hence the need for less or no tooth

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Risks of Having Dental Implants
Our Dental Implants Center in Manhattan only uses a top quality dental implants from Straumann, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It’s the largest and most advanced dental implant company in the world.

Dr. Navid Rahmani is an internationally recognized, Board Certified Periodontist and top rated dental implant specialist. All dental implant treatments in NYC are performed by Dr. Rahmani in our Midtown Manhattan dental center.

Long-term Success and Prognosis
According to Americal Dental Association many failures and complications occur when using implants to support restorations. Most failures can be prevented with proper treatment planning.

Dental Implant failures can be largely classified into four main categories:
- Loss of integration, osseointegration
- Positional failures
- Soft tissue defects
- Biomechanical failures

Failure of the Implant Post to Fully Integrate
For implant treatment to be successful, the implant post that is inserted into the jawbone must fully integrate with the surrounding bone. It’s necessary for new bone cells to grow on and around the post which will help to stabilize it, ensuring it is held firmly in place. This process, called osseointegration can take several months to complete.

Dental implant posts are often specially treated to encourage this process, but like everything, there is always a chance that the implant post could fail to fully integrate, leaving it unable to properly support a replacement tooth and ultimately increasing the risk of failure.

Damage to Nearby Anatomic Structures
Your jawbone doesn’t just consist solely of bone, as it also contains other vital structures that include nerves, blood vessels, and sinus cavities. There is a potential that the placement of the implant could damage some of the structures. Sometimes if a dental implant is placed too close to a nerve it could damage it, resulting in numbness or even pain that may be temporary or permanent.

Damage to your sinus cavities may occur if you have dental implants to replace your upper back teeth. If there is insufficient room to place the implants in this area, then there is a risk the sinus cavity could become perforated. One problem with restoring upper back teeth is that the bone in this area is often naturally thinner because of the sinus cavities which are large air-filled cavities.

This is why people requiring dental implants in this area of their mouth will often need a sinus lift or sinus augmentation, a procedure to build up the bone in this area to ensure this cannot happen.

Bone Loss
Bone loss around the dental implant can affect its stability and it’s something that will require treatment as soon as possible. Sometimes it may be necessary to remove the dental implant and to place a bone graft, replacing the implant at a later date.

If you have bone loss in between your dental implants and natural teeth, then this can create dark triangles that would have previously been filled with gum tissue. These can affect the appearance of your dental implant supported teeth and may make it more difficult to keep your dental implants thoroughly clean.

Infection
Infection is a risk that may occur soon after implant placement or even years later when treatment seemed to have been a complete success. Quite often an implant dentist will give provide a prescription for antibiotics to take prior to implant treatment, to help the implant integrate with the surrounding bone more successfully, but these antibiotics may not necessarily reduce the risk of infection.

When infection occurs years later, it may be due to poor oral hygiene so if you do have dental implants, it’s essential that you remain committed to looking after them through maintaining a good daily oral care regime combined with ongoing professional dental care that includes regular checkups and hygiene treatments.

Implant Fracture or Breakage
It is quite rare for implants to fracture, especially if your implant dentist has used implant components from a reputable implant manufacturer. An implant might fracture if it comes under excessive stress, for example if you grind or clench your teeth, or if the implant has been improperly placed. S

Sometimes it’s possible to fix a damaged implant, replacing certain components, but other times it might be necessary to remove the implant completely.

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Benefits, Problems of Dental Bridge, Partial/Full Denture

Benefits, Problems of Dental Bridge, Partial/Full Denture
There are several solutions for replacing missing teeth but often there are significant problems in choosing dental bridge, partial denture or full denture. Our Dental Implants Manhattan Center only uses best quality dental implants from Straumann (Basel, Switzerland). It’s the largest and most advanced dental implant company in the world.

Internationally recognized, Board Certified Periodontist Dr. Navid Rahmani a top dental implant specialist in the country. All dental implant procedures are performed in our Midtown Manhattan dental implants center.

Problems with Having a Dental Bridge
Dental bridges are still a popular option but they are not always the best solution for replacing one or more missing teeth in the same area of your mouth. If you opt for a bridge, your dentist will need to remove a substantial amount of structure from the teeth adjacent to the gap. This is because these teeth will have to be crowned in order to support the bridge.

Crowns
The crowns are attached to the replacement teeth to create a strong unit. This is not a good solution if these teeth are healthy and strong and are nicely shaped and don’t need to be crowned. Once that structure is removed it can only be replaced artificially. Even if you subsequently choose to have a dental implant, you will still need to protect these teeth with crowns. Additionally, crowning healthy teeth increases the risk of infection and decay developing underneath the crowns and it also places the teeth that have been crowned under additional stresses as they support the replacement teeth.

Problems with Having a Partial Denture
Partial dentures are a cost-effective way to replace missing teeth but are far from perfect. They are kept in place with clasps that fit around existing teeth and which can be highly visible. Often teeth will need to be modified in order to fit these clasps and they can come under substantial pressure whenever you bite down on the partial denture. The resting of the partial and constant force that it exerts causes more loss. Patients who have been wearing a partial for many years also realize that their jaw bone shrunk in width and height. This becomes an issue when they would like to have a dental implant but have loss substantial volume of jaw bone.

Problems with Having a Full Denture
A full denture replacing all the natural teeth on your upper or lower arch is perhaps the most problematic solution of all. Often people with full dentures will struggle to keep them in place, especially after they have been worn for a few years and as bone loss occurs, making retention even more difficult. It can be awkward to eat and speak clearly with dentures and they do nothing to help oral health. They can easily trap food and plaque and often rub on the gums creating sore spots. The pressure placed on the gums and underlying bone causes the gums and the bone to shrink or reabsorb more quickly, making the problem with denture retention even worse. Eventually the bone resorption can be so substantial to cause a loss of dimension between the upper and lower jaw, causing a collapse of facial features that is prematurely ageing.

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121 East 60th St, Ste 6C2,
New York, NY 10065
(60th St. btw Park Ave / Lex Ave)
(212) 256-0000
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