Michael Ventriello

Privacy
5 cybersecurity resolutions for your dental practice in 2025
By adopting these five resolutions in 2025, your dental practice can safeguard patient data, comply with regulations, and build trust with patients, writes Tasha Dickinson and Michael Ventriello.
January 17, 2025
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Practice Trends
Dental duets: Despite what you may have read, dentistry is a smart investment
The latest advances in dental technology offer exciting investment opportunities for individual investors, venture capital firms, and private equity groups, writes Michael Ventriello and Dr. Shervin Molayem.
November 7, 2024
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Office Management
Dental duets: Why we need improved technology interoperability to achieve optimal dental practice workflows
The authors believe the lack of interoperability among many innovative technologies poses a significant barrier to their effective implementation in dental practices and impedes the rate of adoption.
August 20, 2024
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Oral Cancer
5 ways dental-medical collaboration can improve oral cancer statistics
By implementing five collaborative strategies, dentists and physicians can shift the oral cancer paradigm to significantly reduce oral cancer mortality rates and improve overall patient outcomes, writes Michael Ventriello.
April 30, 2024
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Dental Practice
Why now is the time for you to become an author
Now more than ever, the dental community needs new voices to educate, motivate, and lead the way during the pandemic and long after it has passed -- and it will pass, writes Michael Ventriello. Part of that leadership in the dental industry will come from those who choose to submit their thoughts for others to read. In this article, Ventriello discusses the power of thought leadership through writing.
December 10, 2020
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Dental Practice
Seize the marketing advantage with teledentistry: Part 2
Teledentistry at one time may have been thought of as exclusively a public health service. However, as the technology has evolved and the costs involved lowered, the opportunity for this service to add to your practice's revenue has grown. Part 2 of this series by Michael Ventriello focuses on how to promote the benefits to your current and prospective patients.
April 3, 2019
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Dental Practice
Seize the marketing advantage with teledentistry: Part 1
Teledentistry may have once been thought of as exclusively a public health service. However, as the technology has evolved and the costs involved lowered, the opportunity for this service to add to your practice's revenue has grown. Part 1 of this new series by Michael Ventriello will focus on why your practice should embrace teledentistry, and the second part will focus on how to do so.
March 27, 2019
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Oral-Systemic Link
Do dentists need to doctor up on the oral-systemic link?
Michael Ventriello, owner of Ventriello Communications and an experienced voice in dental public relations, examines the need for more communication and collaboration around periodontal disease. Dentists and hygienists need to have difficult conversations with their patients and also work to bridge the dentist-physician communication gap, he writes.
April 26, 2017
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Oral Cancer
Do dentists need to doctor up on oral cancer?
Michael Ventriello, owner of Ventriello Communications and an experienced voice in dental public relations, explains why he "fired" his dentist over the lack of oral cancer screening. He writes that dentists and hygienists need to embrace examination tools and protocols to improve oral cancer screening and survival rates.
April 14, 2016
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Woman hit with prison sentence for embezzling from dental employer
By Melissa Busch
A woman accused of embezzling more than $240,000 from the dental practice where she worked was sentenced.
January 20, 2025
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Saliva testing may mark periodontitis progression
By Ava Barros
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine have found that measuring proteins in saliva may help monitor periodontitis progression, according to a press release from the university.
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Not enough dentists follow guidelines to address caries
By Melissa Busch
U.S. pediatric dentists use pharmacological approaches like silver diamine fluoride to address early caries but rarely adopt other strategies like minimally invasive dentistry.
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Do's and don'ts for avoiding mistakes in your practice
By Dr. Roger P. Levin
By honing in on certain key performance indicators and following certain steps, practices can thrive and flourish in 2025, writes Dr. Roger P. Levin.
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Flossing leads to firing
By Melissa Busch
An assistant was fired after a video of her ignoring and flossing over the bedside of a patient with a serious heart condition went viral.
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5 cybersecurity resolutions for your dental practice in 2025
By Tasha Dickinson, Michael Ventriello
By adopting these five resolutions in 2025, your dental practice can safeguard patient data, comply with regulations, and build trust with patients, writes Tasha Dickinson and Michael Ventriello.
January 17, 2025
Data Protection Nijat
How one dentist won the dental team over with waffles
By Tamela Jones
Whatever the reason, or even for no reason at all, finding ways to celebrate your dental team offers many returns for you and your practice, writes Tamela Jones.
January 17, 2025
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Iowa Dental Board agrees to license woman who stole $81,000
By Clark Kauffman
The Iowa Dental Board has agreed to license a woman recently convicted of stealing almost $81,000 from Iowa businesses.
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These obesity indicators may be linked to periodontitis
By Ava Barros
Certain obesity indicators may positively correlate with periodontitis and vary with age, according to a large study published in Scientific Reports
January 16, 2025
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People prefer going to the dentist over this
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
This concern is now a bigger fear than root canals for many Americans, according to a TodayPay report.
January 16, 2025
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COVID-19 affected antibiotic prescribing in dentistry
By Ava Barros
The COVID-19 pandemic likely caused a rise in antibiotic use in dentistry, disrupting a previous decline, as rates have since remained high, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association.
January 16, 2025
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The importance of infection control documentation in dental practices
By Amanda Hill, RDH
If you don't write it down, it didn't happen, writes Amanda Hill, RDH. Here's why you should prioritize documentation in your dental practice.
January 16, 2025
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