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Practice Advice

Dental team meeting in a practice office discussing employee retention

Why Do They Resign? How To Prevent the Great Resignation in Your Dental Practice

Over half of dental assistants plan to leave their current roles. Learn why money isn’t the main reason employees resign—and how practice culture and genuine recognition can help you retain your best dental team members.

HolliFebruary 23, 2026

Dental team smiling together in a clinic decorated with subtle Valentine’s Day accents

Employer advicePractice Advice

Love Your Dental Team This Valentine's Day

This Valentine’s Day, show real love to your dental team by improving leadership, preventing burnout, and protecting your practice culture so patients and staff truly thrive.

HolliFebruary 4, 2026

Dental team standing together in a clinic, looking professional and aligned around shared goals

Employer advicePractice Advice

Your Dental Practice Is Not a Family. It's a Team. (And That's a Good Thing.)

Many dental offices proudly say, “We’re like a family here.” It sounds warm—but it often excuses poor performance, avoids hard conversations, and burns out your best people. Your practice isn’t a family. It’s a team. And that’s exactly why it can thrive with clear expectations, accountability, and strong leadership.

HolliJanuary 23, 2026

HiringPractice Advice

The Ultimate Guide to Dental Staffing in 2026

How Dental Practices Hire, Retain, and Stay Fully Staffed in a Changing Market Introduction: Why Dental Staffing Looks Different in 2026 Dental staffing has...

HolliDecember 12, 2025

HiringGuest Blog Post

Fixing Hygiene Compensation: Strategies for Today’s Tough Market

This week’s blog is actually a podcast from my good friend Rachel Wall, CEO and Founder of Inspired Hygiene.

HolliNovember 17, 2025

Fun!Hiring

What’s Haunting Your Hiring? Scary Staffing Situations (and How to Fix Them)

The Horrors of Dental Hiring It’s spooky season — and while ghosts, ghouls, and cobwebs may fill your neighborhood, there’s nothing scarier than trying to hire...

HolliOctober 20, 2025

Dental JobPractice Advice

You Don’t Have to Do It All: How Dentists Can Avoid Burnout

Avoid Dentist Burnout: Smart Ways to Delegate, Outsource, and Retain Top Dental Talent Talking with dentists every day has given me a deep appreciation for...

HolliSeptember 22, 2025

Employer advicePractice Advice

How to Improve Dental Staff Attendance (and What to Do When Call-Outs Keep Happening)

In one of the dental management groups I follow on Facebook, an important question came up.

HolliAugust 21, 2025

Guest Blog PostPractice Advice

Your Marketing Is Working—Is Your Front Office?

This week’s post comes from our friends at Doctor Genius. Doctor Genius is a healthcare marketing and technology company focused on helping dental practices...

HolliMay 5, 2025

Dental JobHiring

Before you Hire: Get Your Dental Practice in Order with Retention & Onboarding

If you ask me, retention is one of the most overlooked pieces in the hiring puzzle.

HolliApril 22, 2025

Guest Blog PostHiring

Does your Dental Practice Have a Compensation System or an Approach?

This weeks post comes from my good friend Sharyn: Sharyn Weiss, M.A., is the founder of Weiss Practice Enhancement, a practice management firm for dentists who...

HolliApril 2, 2025

Dental HygienistsEmployer advice

10 Ways to Maximize Hygiene Profitability Amid Rising Pay Rates

Learn how to make your hygiene program more profitable and competitive. Boost pay rates to attract top talent without breaking the bank!

HolliNovember 1, 2024

Guest Blog PostPractice Advice

Explode Your New Patient Flow

Increase your New Patient flow for your Dental Practice without increasings your marketing spent.

HolliOctober 8, 2024

Employer adviceHiring

Attracting Gen Z in Dentistry: Writing Job Posts That Work

Learn how to attract Gen Z dental professionals to ensure your practice remains fully staffed with top talent.

HolliSeptember 3, 2024

Employer adviceHiring

Why Dental Offices Should Always Be Hiring

Over 80% of dentists report hiring hygienists and dental assistants to be very challenging. Even if you are fully staffed, here is why you should always be hiring.

HolliMay 8, 2024

Dental OfficePractice Advice

Take Control Of Your Accounts Receivables in 7 Simple Steps

I was just interviewing a candidate for a Regional Manager position I am working on.

HolliMarch 4, 2024

Practice AdviceWork Life

Dentists: You Don't Have To Do It All

If your New Years resolution is to enjoy dentistry again, this post tells you how to alleviate stressors and increase production.

HolliDecember 11, 2023

Employer adviceGuest Blog Post

Can I Afford My Next Dental Employee?

This post is a must read! – It explores your current compensation plan, cost of benefits and how to hire without paying a ridiculous hourly wage.

Why Do They Resign? How To Prevent the Great Resignation in Your Dental Practice

Love Your Dental Team This Valentine's Day

Your Dental Practice Is Not a Family. It's a Team. (And That's a Good Thing.)

The Ultimate Guide to Dental Staffing in 2026

Fixing Hygiene Compensation: Strategies for Today’s Tough Market

What’s Haunting Your Hiring? Scary Staffing Situations (and How to Fix Them)

You Don’t Have to Do It All: How Dentists Can Avoid Burnout

How to Improve Dental Staff Attendance (and What to Do When Call-Outs Keep Happening)

Your Marketing Is Working—Is Your Front Office?

Before you Hire: Get Your Dental Practice in Order with Retention & Onboarding

Does your Dental Practice Have a Compensation System or an Approach?

10 Ways to Maximize Hygiene Profitability Amid Rising Pay Rates

Explode Your New Patient Flow

Attracting Gen Z in Dentistry: Writing Job Posts That Work

Why Dental Offices Should Always Be Hiring

Take Control Of Your Accounts Receivables in 7 Simple Steps

Dentists: You Don't Have To Do It All

Can I Afford My Next Dental Employee?

Improving Practice Operations: From Hiring to Coverage and Everything in Between

Is There Money Hiding in Your Morning Huddle?

4 Tips to Effectively Train Your Dental Practice's New Employee

9 common HIPAA violations and how to avoid them

Navigating the dental hygienist shortage and the booming temp economy

6 Tips for Dentists to Manage Rising Costs

How to improve the attendance of your dental employees

Pay Transparency Laws

How to Increase Production and Keep your Schedule Full this Holiday Season

Give Your Private Practice All The Perks Of A DSO

Why and how you should market your dental practice to small businesses

8 Tips to Recession Proof Your Dental Practice

Dentists: When hiring, please get out of your own way.

"Red Flags" (about your dental office) according to Dental Professionals

Increase Production and Keep Your Schedule Full

Your Dental Office’s Marketing Guide for June

5 ways to attract new dental patients

Your Dental Office’s Marketing Guide for May

Dentists, you do not have to do it ALL

Your Dental Office’s Marketing Guide for April

Your Dental Office's February Marketing Guide

Your 2021 Dental Practice Resolution Guide

How to make your dental practice less awkward.

Can Dentists reimburse their employees for health insurance?

5 Tips to get more applicants for your dental job post

5 Ways to Recession Proof Your Dental Practice.

Practice Advice

COVID-19 Dental Practice Resources

What dental professionals need to reopen your practice

Let's talk Teledentistry

7 tips to Be On Your "A" Game: Leave office drama and personal issues at the door!

$10,000 Emergency Grants for Dental Offices Now Available

Dentistry, Human Resources & COVID-19

6 Steps to Close Your Dental Practice During a Pandemic

3 Leadership Ideas For Your Dental Office

The Coronavirus Disease: What Your Dental Office Needs to Know

Love Your Team this Valentine's Day

Alternatives to the Holiday Work Party for your Dental Team.

The One Thing that Top Dentists have in Common

How Effective is your Morning Huddle?

How to hire during the Holiday Season

How to Increase Production and Keep your Schedule Full this Holiday Season

What position does your dental practice need to hire?

How to get more 5-Star Reviews

How You Are Unknowingly Losing New Patients

How To Have Success With A Dental Temp

AVOID RESCHEDULED, CANCELLED & NO-SHOW APPOINTMENTS…

Use DirectDental to lower your payroll costs!