Practice Management

Tonya Lanthier, RDH is the founder and CEO of DentalPost, one of the fastest-growing dental-related career service providers in the country. Additionally, Lanthier is a member of the Academy of Dental Hygiene (ADHA), Entrepreneurial Organization (EO) and Academy of Dental Management Consultants (ADMC). She is on the planning committee for the Northern District Dental Society (NDDS) Gala for Smiles, a public relations liaison for the Georgia Dental Hygiene Association (GDHA), and volunteers for the Georgia Mission of Mercy and the Ben Mansell Clinic. Tonya also works with the Georgia Department of Education's Business Advisory Committee. She is a talented and engaging public speaker, using her boundless energy and enthusiasm to deliver her message about helping practices find and hire the right team members.

Articles

When time and resources are tight, it’s even more important to make the right hire. Data can help.

Using Data for a Better Hire 

Purchasing and inventory have long been a burden for dental professionals everywhere. But new alternatives are making the job easier.

Procurement Progress: Advances in Practice Purchasing and Inventory Solutions

Robert Maguire, DDS, MA, is a dental speaker, coach, practice consultant, and DiSC trainer, passionate about leadership and communication. If you would like more information about Dr Maguire and to learn how he can help you and your team experience more fulfillment, more joy, and more financial success, visit https://www.thefulfillment.coach/ or email him at contact@thefulfillment.coach.

Unlocking your dental practice team’s potential hinges on a few important factors, such as communication, collaboration, and willingness to improve. 

Your Dental Team is an Untapped Treasure

For the last 10 years Michael has been the Zookeeper at Dee for Dentist, one of the leading digital dental offices in Southern Nevada. Under his leadership, the practice thrived during the pandemic allowing Mike to step out of day to daypractice operations and follow his passion of coaching other dental practices.

As an Executive Dental Coach for Fortune Management, Mike now helps owner dentists turn their vision into reality through strong team cultures and empowering business strategies.

Applying the same theory for treatment planning in boosting dental practice culture can yield good results. 

Treatment Planning for a Toxic Dental Practice Culture

Randy Modos is the President and Co-Founder of PayJunction, a payment processor of choice for practice-based industries for over 20 years. PayJunction provides a modern end-to-end payment technology that is backed by a customer first approach to service and transparent pricing. The company processes $7 Billion in transaction volume annually and works with nearly 2,000 medical practices across the United States.

How to evaluate terms, rates, and fees (and identify unfair practices) to get the best experience for both your practice and the patients. 

5 Tips to Assess a Payment Provider’s Billing Practices for Your Dental Practice

Videos

Host Lisa Newburger is joined by John Flucke, DDS, Jeff Rohde, DDS, and Rick Adelstein, DDS, to discuss the importance of communication when introducing new technologies in the dental practice. [29 Minutes]

Mastermind - Episode 12 - Introducing New Technology into the Practice

Opy US CEO & Global Chief Strategy Officer

Brian is a 32-year veteran of the payments and fintech advisory industry. He joined Opy from Deloitte, where he founded and grew the firm’s globally top-ranked payments practice. He successfully helped the C-suite of large global companies implement high-visibility, complex payments, fintech and banking strategies, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and technology initiatives. These include large credit card issuers, merchant acquirers, networks, payments processors, corporates, governments, and merchants. Prior to Deloitte, Shniderman was an executive at several advisory firms, focusing on fintech and payments. In 2001, he was recognized as an innovator of the year by Fortune for introducing approaches for B2B equity-based payments, continuing to innovate and launch new fintech products since then.

Opy USA seeks to help break the age-old mold for patients and providers.

 Untethering Choice and Access in Dental Care Financing

Robert Elsenpeter is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Dental Products Report and Dental Lab Products. He is also the author of 18 technology books, including the award-winning Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. As such, he’s particularly interested in the technological side of dentistry.

With an ever-changing world spurned by the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing education continues to evolve in the online space.  

Looking to the Future of Continuing Education 

Benco Dental will acquire the family-owned Popp Dental Supply to offer a wide variety of technologies and products to its customers. 

Benco Dental Acquires Popp Dental Supply

Lisa Newburger, a master's level social worker supervisor, helps audiences find humor in talking about tough topics. Her "in-your-face" style of presentations and writing will make you smile or just shock you into taking some action. Either way, she is very effective at empowering others to reach their goals and feel better about themselves. Her entertaining workshops are available for national and international audiences. Writing for the dental industry since 2010, she uses an alterego (Diana Directive) to illustrate her points in a sarcastic but effective way. Presentations can be scheduled by contacting Lisa at www.discussdirectives.com/dental.html.

Learning how to effectively communicate with both patients and colleagues will allow you to set the tone and a good example in your dental practice. 