We talk to Professor Salvatore Cantale, who lectures on the online ITI/IMD online Dental Practice Management course, about the role played by finance in running a successful practice. Tell us a little about yourself My name is Salvatore Cantale and I have been a professor at IMD for 10 years.
“Why am I doing this?” is a question you should always ask yourself! Why am I placing this implant? Am I replacing a missing tooth? Restoring esthetics? Providing function? Or am I doing something at a deeper level such as restoring confidence? Building a personality? Improving self-esteem? Uncovering the deeper
We as dentists usually really love what we do and gain great satisfaction from helping patients and providing great service. Since we are in our dental offices every day, treating our patients, sometimes we do not realize that a majority of the people who come to us are very anxious
Dr Torsten Seidenstricker participated in the first cycle of our Dental Practice Management course. We asked him why he took the course and what he liked most about it. For him, this online format was the only and right way to study in parallel to his full-time job. In his opinion, modern dentists have to be able to lead people, talk business and
Patient satisfaction is the final goal of all our treatments and also our highest reward, or, in other words, it is the end result that we want to achieve from our treatments, and gives meaning to all our endeavors. It is interesting that in our dental school we did not
The first cycle of the new Dental Practice Management (DPM) has finished. We asked one of our participants, Per Hamre from Norway, what he thinks about this educational program in general and the course section on “Influence and Patient Care” in particular. The Dental Practice Management (DPM) course has finished.
Four years ago, I started a new dental clinic called dotDent with two partners in Croatia. We all had more than ten years of experience in dentistry but rather different clinical backgrounds. I had pursued an academic career up to that point specializing in prosthodontics, one of my colleagues had
The first cycle of the new Dental Practice Management (DPM) course is almost finished. We asked one of our participants, Wah Lay Tan from Singapore, what she thinks about this educational program in general and the course section on “Influence and Patient Care”. The Dental Practice Management (DPM) course is
For potential patients to be aware of what we can do, we must first present ourselves. If I want to reach patients, I need to let them find me, and there are different ways of achieving this. The first step in the process is to find the answers to a
The first cycle of the new Dental Practice Management (DPM) course is almost finished. We asked one of our participants, Gina Espinosa from Australia, what she thinks about this educational program in general and the module about financial performance in particular. Gina, you are about to finish the second of
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