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Without a viable targeted marketing message in place and in action, no one will ever know about your newly expanded services. Marketing impacts every aspect of your success in dental sleep medicine and your overall practice, as well.

Remember… there is a very high probability that sleep patients already exist in your current practice.

Marketing and educational materials that introduce these patients to the risks and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea are in essence creating new patients for your practice. Your new/existing converts to sleep therapy will, in turn, refer your sleep services to those within their influence range. Finally, those referrals will bring with them a full range of general dentistry needs to…

Your Patients Will Think You Are The Most Awesome Dentist Ever With Custom Appliance Designs

We decorate our rooms, our desks at work, our cars, and even our own skin. Each one of us is an individual and we love to express our individualism any chance we get, even in our mouths! That’s why custom appliance designs can be such a huge hit at your dental practice. No one loves the thought of wearing a retainer for the next few months or even years, but the process can be a lot more enjoyable if your patients can pick from a wide variety of colors and designs.

At Space Maintainers Laboratories, we offer some really cool appliance colors and designs that will let your patients’ personalities shine. Maybe your feel-good patients will choose the…

If you, and/or the members of your dental group intend to receive payment through some method other than direct fee-for-service, it is important to understand when it comes to Sleep Medicine, you and your dental group are treating a medical problem and must bill according to established medical protocols.

Because most dental practice management software applications do not handle medical billing properly, SML® has established preferred partnerships that supply turnkey eligibility verification, billing and medical reimbursement to insure timely submission and payment of medical claims. We have done this because we believe that unless it is your intention to convert your practice to one that only provides sleep therapy you…

We live in the digital age, and even if your dental office has been analogue for years, it’s past time to make the switch to digital. You already know that converting your analogue x-rays and files make it much easier and swifter for your administrative assistants and dental techs to pull patient files. Digital also allows you to efficiently review changes in patients…and to transfer and receive files to and from other sources.

The only potential “glitch” resulting from digitizing your files occurs in the area of labor commitment. Digitizing can prove time-consuming and does effectively take employees assigned to the task out of circulation. We know that you want to keep your costs down. We know you may not be able…

After wearing a mandibular advancement sleep appliance overnight, patients frequently find it difficult to bite back into their normal occlusion. This bite shift rarely returns to its normal position without some assistance. To help re-establish a normal bite we recommend the use of a repositioning device. This device is typically constructed to replicate the patient’s normal occlusal pattern and mandibular position and should be used every morning after wearing an advancement appliance.

THE GOOD MORNING…