Dental Training Blog
Elevating Excellence in Your Dental Practice
All-Star Dental Academy President of Coaching Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Rick Simcock. Eric and Dr. Simcock look at strategies for raising the level of excellence in your practice. About Dr. Rick Simcock: Dr. Simcock was raised in Walla Walla, Washington and...
How to Find Out If Your Employees Are Happy: It Matters
Mara (not a real person), for all appearances, was a model team member. She was competent and enthusiastic about working with patients. She was also open to learning and improving her professional skills, a pleasure to have in the practice every day, and seemed like...
Creating a Successful Specialty Dental Practice
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Jerry Gray. Eric and Dr. Gray look at strategies for practice success. About Dr. Gerald Gray: Dr. Gerald Gray graduated from Univ. of Iowa College of Dentistry in 1996. He then obtained a...
Break Free From Dental Insurance Part 5
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Gregg Raymond and Karen Raymond. Eric and the Raymonds discuss strategies to move a dental practice to an insurance free business model. The Raymonds share insights into the benefits and...
Break Free From Dental Insurance Part 4
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. William Lopez. Eric and Dr. Lopez look at strategies to success with a fee-for-service business model. About Dr. William Lopez: Dr. William Lopez was born in Atlanta. His father is Cuban and his...
Break Free From Dental Insurance Part 3
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Ron Rotem. Eric and Dr. Ron look at how a dental practice can operate without reliance on dental insurance. Discussion Questions: Was there a time you participated with insurance? What were you...
Break Free From Dental Insurance Part 2
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Mike Kobliska. Eric and Dr. Mike look at how Dr. Mike moved away from insurance with a peek at revenue and collections over the transition period. Discussion Questions: What was your time like...
Break Free From Dental Insurance Part 1
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Dr. Brian Nilges. Eric and Dr. Brian take a close look at his journey from insurance dependence to insurance independence. They talk about what worked, what could have gone better, and where things...
Infection and Pathogen Control in Healthcare
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by Ted Cole, inventor and Founder of UV Angel., and Dr. Linda Lee, Chief Medical Affairs & Science Officer with UV Angel. Eric and his guests discuss the development of UV Angel and its utility in...
KPIs Are More Than Just a Measure of Past Performance
Let's talk KPIs. KPIs (just for the sake of repeating) are key performance indicators businesses use to measure specific performance metric over a specific period of time. As useful as measuring KPIs can be, many businesses do not approach the process in the way they...
Protecting Your Practice From Ransomware and other Digital Threats
All-Star Dental Academy Lead Mastery Coach Eric Vickery is joined by the Digital Dentist Dr. Lorne Lavine. Technology in the dental practice has the power to streamline systems and improve treatment outcomes and the patient experience. But it has the potential to...
Waiting for the Perfect Team to Start Training
"The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is NOT training them and having them stay." — Henry Ford, Founder, Ford Motor Company In this challenging hiring environment, many dentists have holes in their team. And too many practices think...
