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August 2025

Working With Dental Insurance Companies: Tips for Dental Teams

It’s not only important for dental care teams to understand how dental insurance works, but also how to best engage with payers for smoother reimbursements and improved patient financial experiences. Learn some helpful strategies.

6 min read
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August 2025

10 Dental Billing Tips to Help Streamline Your Practice

Need a refresher on dental billing best practices? Learn tips that can help maintain timely payments to your dental office while delivering an improved patient financial experience.

7 min read
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August 2025

11 Ways to Help Reduce Dental Patient No-Shows and Cancellations

Are missed appointments wreaking havoc on your schedule? Learn how to help reduce no-show rates and boost the efficiency of your dental practice.

9 min read
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August 2025

Support Patients With Dental Anxiety About the Cost of Care

Dental patients don’t just worry about the dental drill and damaged teeth — the cost of care may also interfere with their oral healthcare journey. Find out how to help them overcome their fears and hesitations.

6 min read
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August 2025

Best Practices for Featuring Financing in Dental Treatment Plans

Adding financing to your dental treatment planning process requires knowledge, finesse and practice. Following these best practices may help efficiently address your patients' cost concerns.

4 min read
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August 2025

10 Ways to Help Make It Easier for Patients to Manage Their Dental Care Costs

Cost can be a barrier to dental care. Learn strategies for giving your patients more payment options and making the cost of care more manageable.

5 min read
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July 2025

Dental Social Media Tips for Boosting Awareness and Engagement

Social media marketing best practices for dentists can be helpful for your dental practice, even if your practice is new to this form of patient engagement.

6 min read
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July 2025

Ways to Add Financing Discussions to Dental Front-Office Training

Help transform your front-office training with a few easy steps and arm your dental staff with the information they need to confidently discuss dental financing with patients.

7 min read
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July 2025

Best Practices for Revenue Cycle Management in Dentistry

Enhancing dental RCM with best practices can help improve patient experience, support staff loyalty and ensure smooth workflows, as well as help keep your practice efficient and thriving.

6 min read
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June 2025

Patient Retention Strategies Every Dental Practice Should Use

How do you keep your patients committed to your dental practice for the long haul? Give them an experience that maximizes comfort and convenience and builds trust so they want to keep coming back. Here's how.

7 min read
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June 2025

7 Ways to Improve Your Dental Invoices

Effective invoices are essential for your practice's financial efficiency as well for the patient experience. Learn ways to create dental invoices that can help set up your practice for billing and collection success.

7 min read
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June 2025

How an Integrated Payment Solution Supports Patients and Practice Efficiency

Why is an integrated payment solution important for health and wellness practices? The short answer: Syncing payment processes with practice systems can lead to faster checkout, a smoother experience and less strain on your team.

6 min read
Woman speaking with dentist

May 2025

Dental Patient Communication Dos and Don’ts: Engaging With Patients

There is an art to successful communication with dental patients. These dos and don’ts can help drive more positive engagement, treatment compliance and patient satisfaction.

7 min read
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May 2025

How to Create a Seamless Dental Patient Payment Experience

How do you help reduce patient stress and create a better in-office experience? Take a look at your dental payment process. Learn strategies for removing obstacles, boosting convenience and offering support.

6 min read
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April 2025

10 Strategies to Help You Get More Dental Patients

Looking to grow your patient base? Learn a few tactics that can help you raise awareness and drive individuals in your community to schedule an appointment with your dental care team.

8 min read
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April 2025

How Dental Patient Financing Helps Support Patient Oral Health and Practice Health

Dental patients can worry when it comes to recommended dental treatment plans. With affordable financing options, you can put patients at ease, improve conversions and boost the productivity of your staff.

6 min read
Dentist speaking with dental hygienists

April 2025

Dental Staff Appreciation Ideas to Help Boost Office Morale

Looking to improve employee satisfaction and minimize turnover? Let your team know how much you appreciate them. Discover why showing gratitude is essential for your practice and get some helpful dental staff appreciation ideas.

5 min read
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March 2025

CareCredit Tools and Resources to Help Your Team Succeed

Get the support you need to simplify the financing conversation for your staff and your patients or clients. CareCredit offers in-office and online marketing materials, scripts, tools for calculating estimated payments and much more.

2 min read
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February 2025

Tips and Scripts for Financial Conversations

Learn when and how to most effectively talk to patients about the cost of care and payment options that can help them access the care they want and need.

4 min read
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February 2025

Appealing to Patients Seeking Cosmetic Dentistry

Get expert insights on how to address patients’ concerns about the costs associated with cosmetic dentistry. Learn how to help them find the best path to care.

5 min read
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December 2024

Mastering the Initial Patient Contact and Pre-Appointment Conversation

Learn tips from health and wellness providers for building trust and creating a smoother patient or client experience at the start of their care journey.

10 min read
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November 2024

Best Practice: Hire the Friends You Don’t Know Yet

Learn helpful dental hiring strategies, including looking outside your own circle and even beyond the dental industry when recruiting new team members.

5 min read
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October 2024

Add Value to Your Dental Practice by Adding Revenue Streams

What’s the best way to add new revenue streams to your dental practice? One dentist shares his experiences and insights for thinking beyond basic dental care products and services.

5 min read
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September 2024

Dental Office Management Best Practices to Better Support Your Team

In honor of Office Manager Appreciation Month, AADOM and CareCredit share real-life advice from seasoned professionals for streamlining your practice management and supporting your teams.

5 min read
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August 2024

It’s Almost Time to Celebrate Your Office Management Team

Looking for ways to celebrate Office Manager Appreciation Month? Learn practical ways to let your office manager and front office staff know how much they mean to your dental practice.

5 min read

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