Lorne Lavine, DMD, founder and president of The Digital Dentist, has more than 30 years invested in the dental and dental technology fields. A graduate of USC, he earned his DMD from Boston University and completed his residency at the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester, N.Y. He received his specialty training at the University of Washington and went into private practice in Vermont until moving to California in 2002 to establish TDD, a company that focuses on the specialized technological and HIPAA needs of the dental community. He can be reached at drlavine@thedigitaldentists.com or 866-204-3398.

Articles

Traditional measures like firewalls and antivirus software may not be enough to protect most practices.

Take a Stacked Approach to Data Safety

The warehouse is designed to help inform business decisions and standardize data across the dental industry.

tab32 Offers New Standardized Cloud-Based Open Data Warehouse

In-person education is back. We look at what makes in-person training worth the time and expense and what types of programs benefit clinicians the most. 

What to Look for in an In-Person Dental Education Program

Videos

Join host Lisa Newburger, LISW-S, as she and Jamie Collins, BS, RDH, Jamie Falasz, RDH, and Tina Clarke, RDH, talk about how they relieve every day stress from the dental practice, in this month's episode of the Dental Mastermind Series. [27 minutes]

Mastermind - Episode 21 - Stress Relief for Dental Professionals

Jayden Klippel has been helping dentists grow their practices since 2020. She studied marketing at Brigham Young University and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah working as a Content Marketing Manager for ProSites. In her free time she likes to dance and collect vinyl records.

Teledentistry served many dental practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it can be leveraged in a few ways beyond to serve clinicians and patients in the future.  

Leveraging Teledentistry to Draw in New Patients Beyond COVID-19 

Upon earning his bachelor’s degree in management information systems and professional selling from Baylor University in 2004, Matt began his career with the world's largest provider of health products and services rendered to the office-based practitioner. His roles and responsibilities included business and infrastructure development for both private practice dentists as well as dental service organizations. Matt personally facilitated value for a wide range of clients in seeding over 850 dental offices. He was the dental industry’s top producer in revenue for 8 years and had proximity to more than 100M of transacted value. During this tenure, his consultative services included project/practice planning, real estate evaluation, construction evaluation, office design, and maximization of in-office efficiencies. Many of his clients pivoted after their first few ventures, established economies of scale, honed their operations, and transformed themselves into the market-leading dental service organizations.

In recent years he has aided healthcare startups in order to navigate sales, scale, and trajectory for both B2B and B2C oral healthcare companies. One of Matt’s most feverish passions is the little-known and often overlooked link between oral health and systemic wellness. Matt found great purpose through assisting doctors in conceiving their vision of oral healthcare service from inception through the process of entrepreneurship. Now, he has the privilege of facilitating that same vision on the other side of their career in navigating an effective and purposeful merger or acquisition nurtured by the Professional Transition Strategies team. If you can’t catch this proud father chasing his two kids around Dallas he’s likely indulging in live music or attending an open-wheel racing event.

Scaling your dental practice comes down to timing, resources, and planning. Here is how to best prepare for that transition. 

What You Need to Know About Scaling Your Dental Practice

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.

Complaining and venting among the dental staff doesn’t solve issues, but being proactive and hearing each other can go a long way to fixing common issues. 

Dealing with Negativity in the Dental Practice

DentalMonitoring’s Smart STL Powered by Artificial Intelligence allows for remote STL file creation to better serve clinicians and patients. 

DentalMonitoring Introduces Smart STL Powered by Artificial Intelligence

The AWS Health Equity Initiative supports organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.

Oral Genome Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative

Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

Dentsply Sirona’s Cherée Johnson shares thoughts on sustainability and getting clinicians on board at Dentsply Sirona World Las Vegas 22.