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Dentistry: Practice Management
Created by Health Science Librarians
Overview
Managing a successful dental practice requires more than just clinical expertise. This guide provides a curated collection of library resources to support dental professionals in the business and operational aspects of running a practice.
This guide covers key areas essential for effective practice management:
- Business & Finance: Resources on financial planning, accounting, insurance, and legal considerations for dental practices.
- Communication: Tools and references to improve patient communication, team collaboration, and marketing strategies.
- Ethics & Professional Responsibility: Resources on ethics and responsibilities of dentists.
- Management: Materials on leadership, staff management, operational efficiency, and strategic planning.
- Wellness: Resources focusing on work-life balance, stress management, and maintaining personal and professional well-being in the demanding field of dentistry.
This webpage contains a variety of resources to inform practice management. Use this guide to enhance your practice management skills and learn how to build a thriving, patient-centered dental business.
Business & Finance
Business Basics for Dentists by ISBN: 9781119892854Publication Date: 2023-10-24Concise yet comprehensive overview of business management principles tailored for dental practices, with strategies to apply the core concepts to achieve success. Describes business, economic, marketing, and management principles and explains how to apply them to dental practice.
Managing Finances: Guidelines for Practice Success by ISBN: 9781941807996Publication Date: 2015-10-12Provides an overview of key financial concepts for managing the business side of a practice including finanical policies, dealing with dental benefit plans, managing risk and preventing fraud, and defining and controlling fixed and variable costs.
Journals
Communication
Communication Skills for Dental Health Care Providers by ISBN: 0867156902Publication Date: 2015-07-01This evidence-based textbook presents the essential communication strategies clinicians should know to facilitate interaction with patients.
Leadership and Communication in Dentistry by ISBN: 9781119557210Publication Date: 2019-03-26This book provides practical strategies for dentists to effectively and confidently communicate with many dental insurance issues, as well as with their patients and members of their staff. Providing real-world examples and sample letters, the book includes specific guidance on how to handle common communication scenarios.
Dental Communication by ISBN: 9781684471546Publication Date: 2021-01-04Helps dental practices correspond with ease with existing patients, potential patients, the community, vendors, staff. Includes more than 150 templates that can be used for many methods of communication, including letters, press releases, newsletter items and social media posts.
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Dental Ethics at Chairside by ISBN: 9781626165533Publication Date: 2018-05-01In addition to exploring ongoing and critical issues such as the patient-professional relationship, patients with compromised capacity, confidentiality, justice and the inadequacies of society's health care systems, and dentistry as a business, the third edition addresses emerging ethical issues related to conflicts of interest, dental professionalism, advertising and social media, the serious indebtedness of graduating dental students, bad outcomes and bad work, the explosion of aesthetic dentistry, acquiring new skills and new technology, the impact of the market on the professional-patient relationship, and many others. **Limited to one user at a time.**
Professional Responsibility in Dentistry by ISBN: 9781118785584Publication Date: 2013-08-23Professional Responsibility in Dentistry: A Practical Guide to Law and Ethics integrates dental law, risk management, professionalism, and ethics, as all are interrelated in everyday practice.
Management
Managing the Dental Team: Guidelines for Practice Success by ISBN: 9781684470020Publication Date: 2016-12-05Provides dental practices with sample job descriptions, guidelines for handling hiring and terminations, performance evaluations, and salary reviews.
Practical Applications of Coaching and Mentoring in Dentistry by ISBN: 9781119648260Publication Date: 2021-06-01Provides an understanding of the theory of coaching and mentoring with practical applications within the field of dentistry.
Wellness
Resilience and Well-Being for Dental Professionals by ISBN: 9781119814504Publication Date: 2022-12-12Essential reading for dental professionals and other healthcare workers wanting to build emotional resilience and positive mental health.
