Best Practice Ideas

Articles by a Guest Writer, Best Practice Ideas, Career Development, Innovation, Training

By Guest Authors
7 March 2019

A training tip for new Dental Implant Surgeons

(Dr Iulian Popescu)

When I decided to train as a dental implant surgeon I didn’t realise how difficult it could be. I don’t mean the technical aspect. What I mean is the …

Articles by The Marketing Team, Best Practice Ideas, Business, Compliance, Innovation, Software

By Ben Baker
7 January 2019

Clouds and dentistry

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Articles by The Marketing Team, Best Practice Ideas, Patient Journey, Software

By Ben Baker
3 January 2019

Managing Recalls and Reminders with Pearl Dental Software

Flexible features to fill your appointment book

A big problem for practice managers is managing work volumes to ensure that appointment books are always full, but never over-flowing. But patients are people. They all seem to want appointments at the …

Articles by Charlotte Taylor, Best Practice Ideas, Business, Career Development, Staff Retention

By Ben Baker
4 December 2018

Getting the best out of a recruitment consultant

So, what DO recruitment consultants actually do?

(by Charlotte Taylor)

UK dentistry is currently experiencing a shortage of trained and qualified staff at all levels. So, whether you are hiring or trying to get hired, you’ll probably speak to a …

Articles by a Guest Writer, Best Practice Ideas, Innovation, Patient Journey, Prevention, Software

By Guest Authors
30 November 2018

Pearls of Wisdom from Chris Turner

Observations about preventative dentistry

(Written by Chris Turner – edited by Cary Cray-Webb)

We’ve recently been working with Chris Turner, Managing Director at Spacemark Dental. Spacemark Dental is the developer of advanced periodontal treatment and prevention systems. We asked …

Pearl Dental tablet mode on Windows tablet

Articles by Charlotte Taylor, Best Practice Ideas, Business, Compliance, Innovation, Patient Journey, Software

By Ben Baker
24 September 2018

Tablet Mode

File Away the Filing

I hate filing. Before joining Pearl I worked at a pension company. I would spend my afternoons filing new prospects, filing old clients, the information that’s attached to each client and all the maintenance that comes …

Articles by The Marketing Team, Best Practice Ideas, Business

By Ben Baker
6 September 2018

What ever happened to the School Dentist?

Open wide for the School Dentist

(by Cary Cray-Webb)

I have a very clear memory of ‘the School Dentist’ when I was at primary school. Each year a dentist and a dental nurse would set-up shop in some part of …

Articles by The Marketing Team, Best Practice Ideas, Business, Software

By Ben Baker
30 August 2018

Getting kids into the Dental Practice during the Holidays

Ideas for getting kids into the chair

As we enter the last week of the school holidays we thought we’d look at some ideas on how to plan and promote check-ups for school-age patients.

The ideal

When the school summer …

Best Practice Ideas, Career Development, Compliance, Staff Retention

By Ben Baker
20 August 2018

Enhanced CPD and what it means to dental businesses

Enhanced CPD for ALL Dental Care Professionals

The new Enhanced CPD scheme came into operation for all dental care professionals on the 1st of August 2018. Enhanced CPD now affects everyone – whether at the end, or partway through, a …

Articles by Charlotte Taylor, Best Practice Ideas, Business

By Ben Baker
8 August 2018

Learning the finer points of dental marketing – on the job

Marketing is more than a bottle of ‘Bolly’ and a bulging Filofax

Last year we made the decision that we needed to invest in ‘marketing’ in a big way for the first time. We had reached the limits of what …