Dental Patients Skip Hygiene Appointments the Most

Dentists report that hygienist appointments are missed an average of 13% of the time, a survey by The Wealthy Dentist reveals, indicating that dental patients don’t seem to value dental hygiene appointments as much as they should. Whereas regular appointments with the dentist are only missed 9% of the time, an indication that dental patients […]

A former University of Pittsburgh football player and dentist, Anthony Dinozzi, was arrested for threatening to send the Hells Angels biker gang after an FBI agent and is now awaiting sentencing. It began in 2011 when Dinozzi began to believe that Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, had been sending him brain-damaging “radioactive waves” through his computer. […]

When it comes to dental practice marketing, it’s all about defining your primary dental market. When you specifically target your dental marketing efforts towards specific dental patients you won’t waste precious dental practice resources. Your dental marketing works when your practice information reaches the right patients. Choosing primary dental markets to target creates ideal circumstances […]

In one of the more interesting dental stories to hit the news in ages, The New Yorker has published an investigative piece on a dentist who has allegedly been faking running marathons. Dentist Kip Litton is from Davison, Michigan, and his original claim to fame came from his efforts to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis […]

Are dentists raising their treatment fees to keep ahead of the rising dental practice management costs?  A new The Wealthy Dentist survey aimed to find out. The survey asked dentists when was the last time they raised their treatment fees.  One California dentist responded, “Expenses seem to keep going up. So must fees.” In fact, […]