A Matter Of Mission

By: Ed Kobesky

This small Michigan nonprofit is thriving in ways that money alone can’t guarantee, proving that purpose is perhaps the most universal driver of practice success. HARRIET STREET in the Detroit suburb of Ypsilanti is exactly the kind of tranquil but high-traffic location prized by entrepreneurial dentists. Flanked by ...

Now and Later

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Your business and personal finances deserve equal focus. Start the new year by treating both with intent: making smart decisions for your practice today while planning for your financial future tomorrow. By Angie Svitak, CPA, IAR THE NEW YEAR is a perfect time to take control of your financial future. Whether you want ...

Vintage Vault

By: Larry Cohen

X-ray film was a pain. This shielded lead film container is a clunky reminder why. DENTISTS RAISED IN the digital age don’t know how good they have it. Back in the day, analog X-ray film was the only imaging option—requiring not only a stock of perishable film, but also an old-fashioned darkroom for developing it. ...

Inspiration And Action

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The unqualified success of the Lucy Hobbs Project since its inception is proof that driving dentistry forward is critically important—and, equally, that the work is a task without end. By Julie Radzyminski FOR A MOMENT, I worried she wouldn’t show. Academy Award–winning actor Helen Hunt was scheduled to keynote ...

Built to Reward

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Mastering medical billing takes time and commitment, but the long-term benefits are worth it. Here’s how to speed your practice’s transition by creating smart workflows and outsourcing the hardest parts. By Laurie Owens, CPB, CPC, COC IN DENTISTRY, we’re used to immediate results. But medical billing plays by a ...

Finding Her Spark

By: Ed Kobesky

512ooth Austin, Texas For Dr. Ana Salinas, creating her Austin, Texas, practice was more than a fresh start. It was a homecoming. COLLEGE LIFE WAS going 100 percent according to Dr. Ana Salinas’s plan. She was thriving academically at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas; had just met her future husband; ...

Power Inside, Poetry Outside

By: Ed Kobesky

When DEXIS set out to create the Imprevo intraoral scanner, the goal wasn’t simply to improve upon existing technology. It was to rethink the entire scanning experience. BY EDWARD KOBESKY. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF DEXIS THERE’S A LOT riding on the new Imprevo Scanner—for DEXIS and users alike. As the company’s ...

Yes! Dentists of All Ages Can Still Retire Comfortably (But You Can’t Wing It)

By: Ed Kobesky

RETIREMENT INVESTING takes two things: confidence and cash. Luckily, the vast majority of participants in Incisal Edge’s 2025-26 Dentist Survey possess both. Over 90 percent say they’re very or somewhat confident they’ll reach relatively aggressive retirement savings goals of up to $5 million or more—an ...

Grace Under Pressure

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Calmness, patience and a peerless chairside manner, thy name is Angelica Rivera. Our Dental Assistant of the Year is a superstar inside the office and out, reminding her patients (and the teenage son she has raised as a single mom) that a great work ethic is imperative, but it means little without a humanistic sense of joy ...

13th Annual Lucy Hobbs Awards 2026

By: McKenzie Kupchik

By McKenzie Kupchik and Jerry Markon AND SO WE ARRIVE at lucky 13—a baker’s dozen of years now that we’ve been lauding Lucy Hobbs Project honorees who are boosting the dental profession, and women’s role in it, with every workday completed, every experiment launched, every new product developed, every ...
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