Archive for December, 2007
By: Brad Taylor
“Health is wealth”. This is indeed, one of the most apt sayings that one can come across. In fact, if one is not healthy, one just cannot think of working hard day and night to fulfill his or her dreams and aspirations. However, being healthy does not only mean to have a healthy body. It means to have a healthy body along with a healthy mind and yes of course, a set of healthy teeth. In fact, having a healthy set of teeth ensures us of a good digestive system and allows us to chew and digest our food well. Moreover, if we have a good set of teeth, our smile becomes beautiful and highly contagious. In fact, it can be said that teeth are one of the most precious assets of the human body. However, since no one is perfect, being the victim of some or the other dental problem is quite natural and also an accepted fact. A minor toothache can cause too many aggravated dental problems and it becomes necessary to tackle these dental problems once they start off. A restorative dentist who practices restorative dentistry is a good option to fight any dental problem.
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By: Gareth Parkin
Promoting yourself and your services is part and parcel of building a successful dental practice. Once, it was enough to hang out your shingle and wait for your customers to pour in. These days, there’s a lot more competition in a lot more fields. General dentistry, orthodontics, dental surgery – you’ve got to work a lot harder to attract and retain your customers than your peers from just a generation ago. At the same time, there are conventions for advertising medical services that extend to dental services. Promotional products can help you stretch your advertising budget without stepping over the line into tacky or unethical advertising practices.
There are many ways to use promotional products in your dental practice. As with any other profession, the main aims of using promotional products include:
prospecting for new clients (we call it building a practice) customer retention (maintaining your practice) rewarding loyalty building name recognition In some cases, you can use the same promotional products in more than one category. Other categories, like rewarding loyalty, call for promotional products that have a bit more value. Here are some ideas for strategies to build and maintain your dental practice and appropriate promotional products to use with them.
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By: Jacquiline Macaraig
Halloween is over and a lot of people, not just kids, had a great time indulging in candies, brownies, and all the sweets that abound during this trick or treat fest. But whether it’s Halloween or not, most Americans love to have too much sweets in their diet without regard to getting overweight, which may lead to obesity and other problems related to too much sugar intake such as wrinkles.
According to Kerry Neville, a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, “Americans eat too much sugar, and it appears that the threat of making them fat doesn’t seem to discourage excess sugar eating. So this latest wrinkle scare might just do the trick. That is great.”
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