Dr. Michael Schuster developed a "0-100 Principle" from his early work with Drs. Maslow, Cheraskin, and Hans Selye that you will likely find interesting.

This workshop, based on Edwards’ book, “Through the Red Sea,” gives you the foundation to create a consultative approach with patients that helps them identify their deepest held values, and the right course of treatment for their time, money and the expected outcome.

Do you really know about who you are working on? Do you feel like you are working on strangers? Are you pushing treatment to people who don’t hold health as a high value?Do you know what your patients do for a living? Or who in your practice is related to them? Those are the social determinants of really knowing someone. I hear time and again from doctors that they have a relationship-based practice

When I see articles in “Dental Economics,” “Dentistry Today,” or listen to any of the dental podcasts, I hear about the averages. The average case acceptance, the average overhead, the average length of time employees stay on a team. . . sad. It’s discouraging and there is nothing healthy about these averages.