Navigating Crazy Cases
In its first month, several hundred AAE members have visited the AAE’s new online community, AAE Connection. One goal the Association has in creating the space is for members to share case reports and clinical experiences.
Read MoreSharpen Your Skills: Five Keys to Better Business
Just as clinical skills are essential for becoming an endodontist, business skills are critical to succeed as a practice owner. That has always been true, but business knowledge has taken on even greater importance over the last 10 years as the competition for new patients has intensified. Endodontists need to be more business-savvy than in the past. Here are five practical things steps you can take to bolster your business knowledge-and results in 2017.
Read MoreSuccessful Local Anesthesia: What Endodontists Need to Know
Patients in pain will be hard to anesthetize for a number of reasons. Currently, there is no simple solution to anesthetizing mandibular molars in patients presenting with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis
Read MoreEPA Requires Amalgam Separators by 2019
Because endodontists routinely remove fillings, they will be required to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule requiring the use of amalgam separators in dental offices.
Read MoreUpdated AAE Resources Aid in Claims Submissions
The AAE recently updated manuals to help endodontists and their staff correctly code and submit insurance claims. The Endodontists’ Guide to CDT 2017 includes frequently used codes for endodontic procedures, coding scenarios and information about medical claims coding.
Read MoreAdvance our Specialty by Participating in Treatment Outcomes Study
The AAE is encouraging members to participate in a study being conducted by the National Dental Practice Based Research Network on Predicting Outcomes of Root Canal Treatment, observational cohort study.
Read MoreAnalgesics: Balancing the Equation
“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” This decades-old statement was what many patients were “prescribed” by their doctor when complaining of a minor malady.
Read MoreTake Stock in Your Practice: Four Ways to Make 2017 a Great Year
Now is a good time to take stock of your practice’s current condition, and initiate changes that will result in a more productive and profitable 2017. Focus your efforts in the following four areas to experience immediate as well as long-term benefits.
Read MoreCalling All Endodontists: Join the NDPBRN
The National Dental Practice-Based Referral Network (NDPBRN) conducts dental practice-based research to improve oral health and the efficiency and effectiveness of dental care. Its research is done in the “real world” of daily clinical practice and focuses on issues that will have an impact on patient health outcomes, patient satisfaction or the efficiency of the daily delivery of care.
The AAE supports the NDPBRN and encourages endodontists to participate. Endodontist involvement helps demonstrate the differences in care delivered by a generalist versus a specialist.
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