6 Steps to Close Your Dental Practice During a Pandemic

At 11 PM last night the California Dental Association (CDA), sent out a message urging California dental practices to “voluntarily suspend nonessential or non-urgent dental care for the next 14 days.” This comes as Gov. Newsom declares a State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus)...

Coronavirus Update: Temp Staffing

As concerns over the spread of Coronavirus increase, we are reaching out with a brief update to let you know how DirectDental is preparing and planning to provide service during this time. We want to do our part to help support our dental community and assist in any way possible. For Dental...

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Dental Office Manager

Thinking of becoming a Manager?   Here are 5 things they never tell you about being a Dental Office Manager.   A logical progression from being a Dental Assistant or a Front Office Receptionist/Dental Treatment Coordinator is to eventually work your way up to an office manager position.  And...

4 Ways to Get Your Dentist to Pay You More Money Now!

Being a dental hygienist is extremely rewarding but also challenging.  And in most cases, being a hygienist isn’t our only passion. We have families to care for, places to travel to, side hustles to build, and so many other things!  The beauty of being a hygienist is the flexibility of our...

3 Leadership Ideas For Your Dental Office

 "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly". —Jim Rohn Jim Rohn effectively describes the multi-faceted traits of...

The Coronavirus Disease: What Your Dental Office Needs to Know

The Coronavirus Disease, now named COVID-19 is making news headlines this week as the infected numbers continue to rise in the U.S. and abroad.  The American Dental Association (ADA) has released an informational handout that covers strategies to help prevent the transmission of suspected...

How to avoid Dentistry Burnout

I’m going to say it.  Working in dentistry is hard.  It's a hard career, it's hard on us mentally, it's hard on us physically.  We go to an office 8+ hours out of the day, give it our all and then head home, exhausted, and try to have some resemblance of a family/social life.  And then we wake...

Love Your Team this Valentine’s Day

“You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook    Nothing like the month of love to have you reevaluate your team.  Do you love the people you choose to surround yourself with daily?  Have you created YOUR dream team?   If not, it's ok.  That is why I am...