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Is Your Dental Practice Experiencing a Bottle Neck? Do You Want More New Patients?

You don’t have a bottleneck, you say? With all due respect, there is greater than a 95% chance you have a bottleneck and don’t realize it. Or you are on your way to creating one. It doesn’t matter if you bring new patients through hygiene or through the doctor’s chair. Either way, you are in or on your way to a bottleneck. If you had a big piece of spinach between 8 and 9 – wouldn’t you want us to take you off to the side and tell you about it? Of course! As it pertains to this guide, look at us like a good friend who can take you off to the side and whisper in your ear – “your practice is bottlenecked”. Let us first agree, you might be happy with your dental practice if it is at or beyond capacity and bottlenecked. You might not want to work more! You might not want to expand! You may not care! If this is where you are in your career, we say congratulations! For the rest, here are a few reasons why bottlenecks are bad: The easiest symptom to identify is stagnated revenue growth. If your revenues are mostly flat for 10 to 15 months (usually identified year over year), this would be a good indicator the practice is in the middle of a bottleneck. Stagnant new patient numbers over a long period of time (10 to 15 months) is another symptom. Having both flat revenues and flat new patient numbers over a long period of time, pretty much assures you have a bottleneck. One is creating the other. You don’t have to be in the middle of one to see or hear it coming. Self-induced growth bottlenecks are bad – really bad. If you want to avoid or turn a bottleneck around, listen to our audiobook.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium
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4 Zero Cost Steps to Grow Any Dental Practice

You don’t have a bottleneck, you say? With all due respect, there is greater than a 95% chance you have a bottleneck and don’t realize it. Or you are on your way to creating one. It doesn’t matter if you bring new patients through hygiene or through the doctor’s chair. Either way, you are in or on your way to a bottleneck.    If you had a big piece of spinach between 8 and 9 – wouldn’t you want us to take you off to the side and tell you about it?   Of course! As it pertains to this guide, look at us like a good friend who can take you off to the side and whisper in your ear – “your practice is bottlenecked”. Let us first agree, you might be happy with your dental practice if it is at or beyond capacity and bottlenecked. You might not want to work more! You might not want to expand! You may not care! If this is where you are in your career, we say congratulations! For the rest, here are a few reasons why bottlenecks are bad: The easiest symptom to identify is stagnated revenue growth. If your revenues are mostly flat for 10 to 15 months (usually identified year over year), this would be a good indicator the practice is in the middle of a bottleneck.    Stagnant new patient numbers over a long period of time (10 to 15 months) is another symptom. Having both flat revenues and flat new patient numbers over a long period of time, pretty much assures you have a bottleneck. One is creating the other. You don’t have to be in the middle of one to see or hear it coming. Self-induced growth bottlenecks are bad – really bad. If you want to avoid or turn a bottleneck around, read on.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium
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The Secrets to a Successful Telemedicine Practice

The "Secrets to a Successful Telemedicine Practice" guide is the result of over ten years experience working with healthcare leaders, managers, providers and medical administrative staff. Over 20,000 healthcare professionals have become successful at implementing telemedicine practices as a result of our partnership, increasing patient access to care while generating significant revenue growth for their practices.   In this guide we highlight and answer the most frequently asked questions and address common concerns with setting up and establishing an ongoing, efficient and PROFITABLE virtual care practice. Whether you are currently performing telemedicine visits or just getting started, our tips and best practices will help you avoid pitfalls and obstacles that many practices fail to see until it’s too late. Download this free guide and you will learn: *Best practices for selecting a telemedicine platform *The top reasons to use telemedicine *Types of encounters that are ideal for telemedicine visits *How using telemedicine pays for itself ...and more As an added bonus you'll find a link to our virtual visit revenue calculator which, with just a few clicks, allows you to estimate how much your practice can earn from virtual visits on a monthly and annual basis. For years telemedicine has been slowly adopted by hospitals, practices, providers and patients, but today in the post-COVID19 world if you don’t use telemedicine you are the minority. To make sure you stay competitive and get the most out of your virtual care visits uncover the industry’s go to guide for success using telemedicine.  Don’t miss out, download our guide today.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium
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Endovascular Interventions: Treating PAD Below the Knee

There’s increasing evidence to support endovascular intervention for patients with PAD below-the-knee. The challenge? Engineering a device that can safely and successfully navigate that area of the body. Learn more about overcoming this challenge in this below-the-knee application guide. Given availability of both endovascular and open surgical options, a 2017 research program* used population-based data to demonstrate that an endovascular approach is associated with improved amputation-free survival over the long term with only a modest relative increased risk of subsequent intervention. The mainstay of endovascular treatment to increase circulation blood flow is typically balloon angioplasty, atherectomy, and thrombectomy, followed by stenting in more serious cases. Recent advances have broadened the options for treating PAD, including the use of drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons to deliver effective therapies. When compared with open surgery for PAD, catheter-based treatment offers a much lower periprocedural risk, but is limited by lower initial success, requiring repeated procedures for effective treatment, particularly for infrapopliteal (below-the-knee) intervention. For example, blood vessels in the foot are smaller in diameter and highly tortuous, making them difficult to access and navigate. This, in addition to the fact that lesions in these body parts are often severely calcified, can mean repeated procedures are required for effective treatment. However, extensive infrapopliteal stenting in conjunction with poor outflow may actually elevate the risk of stent thrombosis or distal embolization complications. It is clear that a reliable endovascular treatment for PAD in the lower extremities will be largely dependent on, and aided by, the availability of more advanced device design. The challenge for engineers remains: creating a catheter that offers the right mechanical properties of strength and flexibility, and that is small enough for successful below-the-knee intervention.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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