Maximum Performance in Dentistry
#2 Effective Doctor Behavior
This lesson is about what we actually do in our office. It’s about treatment. Earlier, we’ve talked a lot about philosophy and we talked about what behaviors are expected from patients.
Read More#1 Effective Patient Behavior
The essential idea behind this lesson is that each individual, every patient needs to follow certain rules of behavior in order to have good dental health and overall well-being.
Read More#3 The Doctor-Patient Relationship
Today’s lesson concerns the doctor/patient relationship. As with so many important ideas, modern society has beaten down and diluted this fundamental human relationship as to make it unrecognizable.
Read More#6 Providing Exactly the Right Treatment
For this lesson we look at providing exactly the right treatment to promote healing, the third and final principle of our practice. This is easier said than done. Learning the right treatments, along with when and how to do them takes years of practice and focused effort.
Read More#7 Philosophy of Well-Being
In this lesson, we are going to look at some big ideas, ideas that go beyond a dental office, that even go beyond the field of health care. We can call it a philosophy of well-being.
Read More#8 Focusing the Mind
Focusing your mind, concentrating, “being in the moment” improves everything you think or do. Concentration is rightly called the mother of all skills. When your mind is focused, it becomes calm, quiet, and still. Through concentration anything becomes possible.
Read More#9 Tuning Up Your Machinery
For this lesson we look at four ways to pay attention to your machinery. They are equal and discussed in no particular order. But every single one of them is essential for your biological machinery to function perfectly.
Read More#4 Magic of Healing
In this lesson we’re going to take a fresh look at the magical process called healing. Every one of us possesses a natural ability to heal, to become well again. It happens naturally inside of our bodies. No doctor has ever healed anyone. We heal ourselves.
Read More#5 Old Map for Standard Gum Treatment
We need to talk about an old out-of-date map that is still being used to determine standard treatments of the gums. In this map, which is nearly a 100 years old and based on our knowledge from that long ago era, the disease changes in gum tissue are called defects.
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