How to Calm Even Your Most Difficult Child Patients
Kids and the dentist. “I’ll take ‘things that don’t mix well’ for $500, Alex.” I kid, but the truth is that children often have a tough time at the dentist....
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Top 5 Innovations in Dental History
You just can’t deny it - we dentists love gadgets. All those tools are obviously there to clean and repair teeth, but they also serve the valuable purpose of looking...
How To Help Patients Stop Putting Off Dental Care
If you’ve been practicing for any time at all, you’re almost certainly familiar with the patients who disappear for months, if not years, and then show up sheepishly asking for...
4 Types of Dental Offices and What They Say About You
A dentist’s office is their castle—safely guarded by receptionists, dental assistants, and a labyrinth of hallways and rooms. And each of these offices is unique, reflecting something of the personality...
5 Facts About 19th Century Dentistry That Bridgerton Conveniently Leaves Out
If you haven’t yet watched the first season of Bridgerton on Netflix, then what are you, some kind of Featherington? Haha that’s a Bridgerton joke, the type that us “Bridgies”...
5 Ways to Establish Healthy Boundaries with Your Patients
Establishing healthy boundaries is one of the keys to any good relationship. Ideally, both sides mutually agree on a set of boundaries and then respect them. However, those boundaries aren’t...
What’s Coming and Going on Netflix in March
Here at Molar Media Mount, we like to keep tabs on the various streaming services and what’s available on each. The reason is simple: when you’re using a Molar Media...
Types of Masks for Dentists, Ranked
It’s boom time for masks right now. Unless they’re working from home, practically everyone is rocking some type of mask for most, if not all, of their work shift. Dentists,...
How To Make A Trip To the Dentist Less Stressful For Special Needs Patients
I’ve built my brand on dental humor, but today I’d like to address a topic in all seriousness. For kids and adults with special needs, a trip to the dentist...
Back-To-School Time: Good For Appointments, Not So Good For Morale
It’s August. Pretty soon, kids nationwide will be donning their brand new duds, grabbing their still-clean backpacks, and heading out the door for that first day of school. But first,...
Worst Possible Ways To Distract Patients During A Procedure
Some people are terrified of the dentist. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it’s just something that dental professionals have to deal with. For a regular cleaning,...
Best Websites And Forums For Dentists
It’s an immutable law of the internet that like-minded people will come together on forums or blogs or websites. It’s basically like real life, only no one has to be...
A Day In The Life Of A Dental Hygienist
7:00- [Wakes up] Oh man, tell me I have some clean scrubs. Please, please, please… do they have to match? Probably. Ugh, thank God I did laundry on Tuesday. 7:50-...
The 5 Most Popular Dental Procedures
If you’re lucky, your trips to the dentist are just to get your teeth cleaned and your gums stabbed. That’s a perfectly normal experience that happens about twice a year....
Dentists Vs. Orthodontists
There have been some fierce rivalries throughout the ages, and splits happen in families, towns, and countries. Hatfields and McCoys. Republicans and Democrats. The Eastern and Western Roman empires. They...
Top 10 Dentist Pet Peeves
Dentists are people, too. This should seem obvious, but all too often people take a poor approach when going to the dentist’s office. Rather than try to make the experience...