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What’s Your KOLBE™?

What’s your KOLBE?
One of the biggest challenges to any clinician and small business owner is the blending of individuals together to make a team.
These are the same challenges that can afflict larger businesses and corporations too.

Do you recruit people then find they aren’t quite what you thought?
Are you beset with problems retaining staff?
Do [...]

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Dentistry

Chaps would you have your teeth or your boobs done first?

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Now will all dentists believe that lots of folk would like the opportunity to have better looking teeth?
It’s your responsibility to offer them the choice, isn’t it?
From the BBC website.
Male breast op numbers ‘growing fastest’
Surgery to correct ‘man-boobs’ is increasingly popular
Breast reduction for men is the fastest-growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the [...]

Doctors are Horrible Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

So it’s not just this side of the pond!!
I just read Erik’s post about able to change the music for each patient during doctor visits.  This would be really cool.  I have had 5 cat scans in the last 6 months, and the good scan centers now allow you to choose your own radio station [...]

Things I know for sure … maybe (by Robert J. Weyant, DMD, DrPH)

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

From RDH Online Edition.
I’m glad it’s not only me who gets confused..
Fluoride works primarily through a systemic effect. Everyone knows that. Wait; no it doesn’t. It’s mostly topical; I saw some research. Wait! It does have a large systemic effect, I learned from some more research. Is that the only effect? No. Is it the [...]

Academia v Business

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Found this on xkcd.com/664/ some analogies with dentistry I think.

Top 10 Things Your Hygienist Thinks You Should Know

Friday, November 20th, 2009

From RDH Volume 29 Issue 11 - November 2009
An American journal but relevant here.
This survey was constructed in a two-phase approach. First, I asked the readers in September to email me “things” they thought their doctor/employer should know. The second phase was the compilation of these suggestions into a list of 25 items and then asking the [...]

The BDA Fights Back

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Fresh on the heels of the editorial in the current BDJ come two releases which signify a sea change in the way the BDA will be perceived by the membership and hopefully by the DoH too.
Perhaps as a response to Tony Kilcoyne’s letter to the BDJ the BDA have again asked that the new decontamination [...]