Selling Appliances, Jumping off Cliffs to Improve Patient Experiences, Laser Dentistry, & Mucho More
Here's your weekly Sleep Intel wrap-up.
Well, well, well. Guess what time it is? Yuppers, it’s time for the Sleep Intel Weekly Wrap-up. It may or may not be your favorite part of the week, but it should be. LetsDoIt.
SLEEP 2026 is going down in Baltimore this week. It’ll feature most of the movers and shakers along with a few boozers and losers. Are you going to be in Baltimore? What are you most looking forward to seeing?
You present treatment. The patient says something like “I’ll think about it” or “Let me talk to my wife first.” That person didn’t get the treatment they need and you didn’t realize those collections, a proverbial lose-lose situation. It doesn’t have to be like that, especially if you follow advice from Dr. Mark Murphy in this piece:
Sometimes devices fail, but you can mitigate the risk which will reduce your chairtime, improve clinical outcomes, and increase your 5 star Google reviews. Frank Madrigal has touched thousands of OAT cases, and he shares some practical tips to make OAT more predictable in your practice.
Are you laser-focused on harnessing the power of lasers in your sleep practice? Do you even recognize the myriad indications for use? DrErin Elliott and Jason Tierney (that’s me…in the 3rd person) sat down with Dr. Anthony Bolamperti to discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Sleep Matters Podcast. Listen to it below or wherever you check out podcasts.
Alongside her family Suzanne Thai jumped off a cliff in Slovenia, but that’s only part of the story. Several key touchpoints along the way taught her how to run a more patient-centric dental sleep practice. There are some very practical, very actionable takeaways in this piece. Ignore it at your own peril…
On a non-sleep note, I wrote a couple articles in my other newsletter. I run regularly but resist the urge to call myself a runner. There are reasons for that, and I shared some of them in the first two parts of this trilogy titled “Don’t Call me a Runner”. Below are parts uno and dos:
Welp, I’m going to get back to writing a book now. Stay cool. Stay hydrated. Get quality sleep. Stop paying so much damn attention to your health tracker. Repeat.
The initial tranche of rooms in the discounted room block for the 2027 Transform Dental Sleep Symposium has already sold out, but we were able to get 40 more rooms allotted for attendees. Sign up for the meeting and book your rooms NOW!
