Dental Marketing & Money Management For a Local Dentist – Part 2

Dental Marketing & Money Management For a Local Dentist – Part 2

- An Interview with Sandra Simmons – Dental Expert Advisory Series

Part 2 of Interview

Kent Harlan: Pricing services to match the dentist’s experience, knowledge, and areas of expertise is a critical step in building wealth. What advise might you give dental professionals to properly analyze the prices they charge in the marketplace?

Sandra Simmons: I always advocate doing a survey of competitors pricing and then charging at least 95% of the most expensive competitor in the dentist’s area, unless of course they can be the highest priced and get away with it, like my client who treats celebrities and professional athletes.

Sandra Simmons: I’ve worked with a lot of practices to reduce the percentage of Medicaid patients and get into a much higher percentage of private patients, and that certainly helps the cash flow to improve a great deal.

In addition, the dentist needs to raise prices to keep up with cost increases, but there’s a way to do that so the patient hardly notices it, and if they do, they don’t get upset about it.

Kent Harlan: Has the recession caused more price sensitivity among patients? In other words, during these tough economic times, is it more difficult for dentists to increase prices?

Sandra Simmons: In some areas and for some services it definitely has, but there are simple ways to combat that which work well. You have to strategically plan it out so they can do that.

Kent Harlan: The performance of a dental office’s promotional campaigns can have a huge impact on cash flow. Should the dental practice owner outsource this important function to a reputable marketing company or save money by doing it in house?

It really depends on the practice and whether they have, or can afford, great marketing and Public Relations staff working for them. Using in-house staff can be less expensive, but if the staff member doesn’t understand how to craft the message so it resonates with the patient, doesn’t understand how to put in an effective call to action, doesn’t know how to track the return on investment of each promotional medium and campaign, and doesn’t see the changing trends in the world of marketing – they could end up wasting a ton of money and their new patient counts can slow to a trickle.

But, at the same time, the outsourced marketing companies have to be monitored to make sure they are getting effective results and delivering a good return on the investment, but it certainly can free up a lot of the practice owner’s attention, and can save the cost of the marketing employee’s wages – so all that needs to be factored into the decision on outsourcing those tasks.

Kent Harlan: You brought up a good point about how important it is to evaluate the effectiveness of various marketing campaigns, but I’ll be honest with you in my experience that is a very difficult thing to do, especially when it comes to radio and TV advertising. What type of ways would you suggest people evaluate the return on investment on those types of expenditures?

Sandra Simmons: It’s not hard really, if you promote one specific thing on a TV ad and possibly give them a code to use when they call in for whatever you are offering you can track the TV responses.

Using a different offer and code in the radio ad keeps them separate. So it’s easy to tell if they call in and say “I’m calling about a consultation on Invisalign or whatever, and you know you ran that on radio you don’t even have to ask the question if you’re not doing anything else on that.

The most important thing is to have a compelling call to action in the ad – not just a warm and fuzzy general brand building ad so you have no clue how they even heard about you.

For more information on how we can help your business, or to see the other parts of the interview with Sandra Simmons, go to the resource box at the bottom of this article.

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Dentist Marketing & Money Management For a Local Dentist – Part 2 www.mms201.com Interview with Sandra Simmons, business money management expert on money management for a dentist practice. —————- Transcript for Part 2 of Video: Dentist Marketing & Money Management For a Local Dentist – Part 2 with Interview with Sandra Simmons. ——————— Kent Harlan: Pricing services to match the dentist’s experience, knowledge, and areas of expertise is a critical step in building wealth. What advise might you give dental professionals to properly analyze the prices they charge in the marketplace? Sandra Simmons: I always advocate doing a survey of competitors pricing and then charging at least 95% of the most expensive competitor in the dentist’s area, unless of course they can be the highest priced and get away with it, like my client who treats celebrities and professional athletes. Sandra Simmons: I’ve worked with a lot of practices to reduce the percentage of Medicaid patients and get into a much higher percentage of private patients, and that certainly helps the cash flow to improve a great deal. In addition, the dentist needs to raise prices to keep up with cost increases, but there’s a way to do that so the patient hardly notices it, and if they do, they don’t get upset about it. Kent Harlan: Has the recession caused more price sensitivity among patients? In other words, during these tough economic times, is it more difficult for dentists to increase prices …
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Green Dentistry ? Lets do our part for the Environment!

Primarily to due to lack of awareness and a callous attitude, various human activities over generations have already resulted in irreversible changes in our planets ecological system.  However, over the last few years, public awareness and professional accountability on environmental issues has been increasing and the modern day Dental practioner too has an important role to play.

Dentists owe it to their patients, employees, and their planet to reduce their carbon footprint.

Simple steps may be taken to turn your practice green by making it more environmentally friendly:

Correct disposal of bio-medical waste: Virtually all materials and medications used in the dental practice are potentially hazardous and require special handling, treatment & disposal. Reduce or eliminate the use of toxic substances: Mercury bearing silver amalgams Instead of traditional X-Rays, the practice uses digital x-rays that emit close to 90% lower radiation In place of X-Ray films, the practice uses Radiovisiography (RVG) equipment that requires no chemicals for processing of x-ray films The entire water supply to the clinic needs to be filtered through a water softener so as to eliminate calcium and other deposits leading to an increased longevity of instruments and a reduction in waste Lighting used in the entire clinic needs to be changed to more energy efficient CFL lights, as well as ensure that all equipment including the air filtration system as well as air-conditioning units inside the practice are compliant with international energy efficiency standards.

Recommended Management of Dental Clinic Waste Disposal:

Paper and other office waste – Only print what is essential and recycle as much of the printed materials as possible Gloves, Face Masks, Caps, Bibs – Separate from general waste and discard after each use in a bio-medical waste bin as infectious waste Blood – Discharge to sewer Bloody materials from cotton dressings, human parts, swabs/gauze, used impression material – Dispose as infectious waste Mercury – Treat as hazardous waste and dispose in carefully marked bio-medical waste Fixer & Developer from X-Ray film processing – Count as hazardous waste and discharge remainder of waste to sewer Lead foils from X-Ray  films – Send to local metal re-claimer for recycling Needles/syringes/sharps – Store in puncture resistant containers and dispose in specially marked bio-medical waste bins

A little care at the dental practice can go a long way in protecting the environment for future generations and also help fight the spread of highly infectious diseases such as Hepatitis and AIDS.

We are one of the first clinics in East Delhi, Delhi or even India to practice green dentistry.  Please feel free to contact us, as we encourage productive discussion with other Dentists, as well as our patients on this very relevant and important topic.

The Medical Team @ Citylife Dental

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Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

Demystifying Invisalign

Do you have to wear braces but you would like to avoid wearing wires and bands? Invisalign deserves a second look. This versatile treatment helps correct a broad range of dental and orthodontic conditions without traditional metal braces. Impressions are taken of your teeth, then a computerized treatment plan is developed. Specialized for you, it shows your smile with the corrected, repositioned teeth and estimates the time that will be needed for the process.

A series of clear plastic aligners are designed specifically to correct your dental problems. Each aligner is formulated to move a single tooth or a small group of teeth. These devices fit over the surface of the teeth, eliminating wires, and are usually worn 20 to 22 hours a day. You may feel a slight pressure when a new set of aligners is applied but, overall, this treatment is much less painful than metal braces. 

Each set of aligners is worn for about two weeks, then is replaced, advancing your treatment. The success of Invisalign depends upon your commitment. Research studies conducted revealed that the common metal braces treatment takes around 36 months but in some cases it could be as long as 96 months. The Invisalign treatment appears to be much quicker, requiring an average of 12 to 18 months.

Invisalign Usage Requirements

Here are must requirements to be satisfied when using Invisalign:

1. Set aside aligners before eating

2. Brush your teeth after eating and before putting back aligners to your mouth

3. If you grind your teeth at night, you may wear the liners down before the next set is needed. Be wary on tear and wear factor which should require you to replace the aligner timely.

4. You have to wear the aligners for at least 20 hours but not more than 22 hours a day.

If you fail to keep the aligners in for the required length of time, the next set in the series set may not fit. Thus, new impressions and aligners will be necessary, adding to the cost. The cost of Invisalign varies by need and geographic area. For some, the cost involved does not make much difference compared to conventional braces.

Advantages of Invisalign 

1. Aligners are clear plastic, almost invisible, unnoticeable when in place

2. Convenience in wearing and tolerable discomfort compared to metal braces

3. Ease of use-aligners are easy to place or remove

4. Simple to care for – just clean as directed at least once daily 

5. Oral hygiene friendly since aligners can be taken off  prior to meals, and allows thorough teeth brushing after eating

6. Lower cases of tooth decay during treatment

7. Decreased treatment time. Results of studies revealed an average of 12 to 19 months correction period

8. Little irritation to tongue and inside of mouth since causing objects like wires are not present

9. Can be removed for special occasions 

You can wear a better smile without metal braces by consulting your dentist or orthodontist about Invisalign.

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Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

Ways To Get Your Dental Practice Marketing Where Potential Patients Can Find You

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the Best Dental Care

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the best dental care

Given the number of conditions and treatments available, it can be a huge challenge to select an appropriate dental treatment plan for yourself. Even with Dental Insurance, coverage typically tops out at around 00 – so if you have more than one root canal, an implant or a crown, you will be soon be paying out of-pocket. At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ by providing the details of your city, state, and zip code, you can access information regarding the dental treatments and options provided by dentists & dental surgeons in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com business directory is an extensive database with details about dentists, dental care treatment plans and price lists offered across 300 city ares in the United States.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com database is extremely well organized, resourceful, and efficient means of searching for specific information in the shortest possible time.
 
Arriving at a cost-effective treatment plan

More often than not, it isn’t easy to establish the costs involved which selecting a dental care treatment plan.  Going through hundreds of websites and researching information regarding prices offered becomes a tedious process. 

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ we have compiled information on price lists offered by various dental care facilities, dentists, and dental surgeons for various treatment plans offered.  By entering the details of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to go through the price lists of various treatment plans being offered in your area. 

The http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/cost engine will also help you arrive at an average cost for any chosen treatment.  This will help you gauge and understand details about the prevailing costs for specific dental treatments your chosen area.  Of course, depending upon your condition and the expertise of the chosen dental care specialist costs could vary a little but you will certainly be able to arrive at an estimated cost per treatment. 

In addition to this, the SmartHealthbuyer.com cost engine has another feature which will help you compare costs among various treatment plans.  Depending upon your requirement, whether it is root canal treatment or teeth whitening you will know what the prevailing rates are for various treatments in your area.

Locating a skilled, experienced, and professional Dentist

Visiting a dentist, especially for children and in some cases for adults too can be a scary experience. The fear of pain and the thought having your tooth pulled out is enough to make you want to put off visiting a dentist if you can.  But this is not a solution and the idea is to dispel all fear, generate confidence and build a professional rapport with your dentist.  It therefore becomes extremely important that you find the right professional in the industry. 

SmartHealthbuyer.com has an extensive business directory with names and details of listed dentists located across 300 metros in the United States.  By providing the name of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to access information regarding various dental clinics, dentists, and dental surgeons located in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com is an easy and efficient way of locating the best dentists in your area and you can do this without having to sift through hundreds of web pages.  Based on your requirement and the expertise and experience of various dentists located in your area, you will be able to shortlist the ones that meet your criteria. 

What to look for in a dentist?

Skill, practice, proficiency, experience, and knowledge everything counts when you are selecting a professional dentist to take care of your requirement.  Besides this, kindly note all 50 States and the District of Columbia require dentists to be licensed.  Qualified dentists must have met the State licensing requirements by passing the National Board Dental Examinations.  Price alone is often a very poor indicator of the treatment that you will receive. It is much more important to look at the Dentist reviews, qualifications, years in practice and overall profile and professionalism than to compare dentists on price.

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ you will be able to access information regarding the dentists’ educational qualifications & background, and licensure details.  In addition to this SmartHealthbuyer.com will provide you access to go through reviews, feedback, references, and recommendations for various dentists listed in our database. 

This information will help you assess the experience and expertise of various dentists listed in your area.  SmartHealthbuyer.com is one of the most cost-effective and well-organized method of choosing the right dental care treatment plan, at the best possible price, and above all getting treated by the best dental expert in the industry.

Please visit http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/

For Braces
http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/Braces/
Cosmetic Dentistry
http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/Cosmetic/

Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Give your answer to this question below!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

Ways To Get Your Dental Practice Marketing Where Potential Patients Can Find You

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the Best Dental Care

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the best dental care

Given the number of conditions and treatments available, it can be a huge challenge to select an appropriate dental treatment plan for yourself. Even with Dental Insurance, coverage typically tops out at around 00 – so if you have more than one root canal, an implant or a crown, you will be soon be paying out of-pocket. At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ by providing the details of your city, state, and zip code, you can access information regarding the dental treatments and options provided by dentists & dental surgeons in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com business directory is an extensive database with details about dentists, dental care treatment plans and price lists offered across 300 city ares in the United States.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com database is extremely well organized, resourceful, and efficient means of searching for specific information in the shortest possible time.
 
Arriving at a cost-effective treatment plan

More often than not, it isn’t easy to establish the costs involved which selecting a dental care treatment plan.  Going through hundreds of websites and researching information regarding prices offered becomes a tedious process. 

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ we have compiled information on price lists offered by various dental care facilities, dentists, and dental surgeons for various treatment plans offered.  By entering the details of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to go through the price lists of various treatment plans being offered in your area. 

The http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/cost engine will also help you arrive at an average cost for any chosen treatment.  This will help you gauge and understand details about the prevailing costs for specific dental treatments your chosen area.  Of course, depending upon your condition and the expertise of the chosen dental care specialist costs could vary a little but you will certainly be able to arrive at an estimated cost per treatment. 

In addition to this, the SmartHealthbuyer.com cost engine has another feature which will help you compare costs among various treatment plans.  Depending upon your requirement, whether it is root canal treatment or teeth whitening you will know what the prevailing rates are for various treatments in your area.

Locating a skilled, experienced, and professional Dentist

Visiting a dentist, especially for children and in some cases for adults too can be a scary experience. The fear of pain and the thought having your tooth pulled out is enough to make you want to put off visiting a dentist if you can.  But this is not a solution and the idea is to dispel all fear, generate confidence and build a professional rapport with your dentist.  It therefore becomes extremely important that you find the right professional in the industry. 

SmartHealthbuyer.com has an extensive business directory with names and details of listed dentists located across 300 metros in the United States.  By providing the name of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to access information regarding various dental clinics, dentists, and dental surgeons located in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com is an easy and efficient way of locating the best dentists in your area and you can do this without having to sift through hundreds of web pages.  Based on your requirement and the expertise and experience of various dentists located in your area, you will be able to shortlist the ones that meet your criteria. 

What to look for in a dentist?

Skill, practice, proficiency, experience, and knowledge everything counts when you are selecting a professional dentist to take care of your requirement.  Besides this, kindly note all 50 States and the District of Columbia require dentists to be licensed.  Qualified dentists must have met the State licensing requirements by passing the National Board Dental Examinations.  Price alone is often a very poor indicator of the treatment that you will receive. It is much more important to look at the Dentist reviews, qualifications, years in practice and overall profile and professionalism than to compare dentists on price.

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ you will be able to access information regarding the dentists’ educational qualifications & background, and licensure details.  In addition to this SmartHealthbuyer.com will provide you access to go through reviews, feedback, references, and recommendations for various dentists listed in our database. 

This information will help you assess the experience and expertise of various dentists listed in your area.  SmartHealthbuyer.com is one of the most cost-effective and well-organized method of choosing the right dental care treatment plan, at the best possible price, and above all getting treated by the best dental expert in the industry.

Please visit http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/

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Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

The Snack Food Industry – Our Children’s Secret Adversary

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Demystifying Invisalign

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Do you have to wear braces but you would like to avoid wearing wires and bands? Invisalign deserves a second look. This versatile treatment helps correct a broad range of dental and orthodontic conditions without traditional metal braces. Impressions are taken of your teeth, then a computerized treatment plan is developed. Specialized for you, it shows your smile with the corrected, repositioned teeth and estimates the time that will be needed for the process.

A series of clear plastic aligners are designed specifically to correct your dental problems. Each aligner is formulated to move a single tooth or a small group of teeth. These devices fit over the surface of the teeth, eliminating wires, and are usually worn 20 to 22 hours a day. You may feel a slight pressure when a new set of aligners is applied but, overall, this treatment is much less painful than metal braces. 

Each set of aligners is worn for about two weeks, then is replaced, advancing your treatment. The success of Invisalign depends upon your commitment. Research studies conducted revealed that the common metal braces treatment takes around 36 months but in some cases it could be as long as 96 months. The Invisalign treatment appears to be much quicker, requiring an average of 12 to 18 months.

Invisalign Usage Requirements

Here are must requirements to be satisfied when using Invisalign:

1. Set aside aligners before eating

2. Brush your teeth after eating and before putting back aligners to your mouth

3. If you grind your teeth at night, you may wear the liners down before the next set is needed. Be wary on tear and wear factor which should require you to replace the aligner timely.

4. You have to wear the aligners for at least 20 hours but not more than 22 hours a day.

If you fail to keep the aligners in for the required length of time, the next set in the series set may not fit. Thus, new impressions and aligners will be necessary, adding to the cost. The cost of Invisalign varies by need and geographic area. For some, the cost involved does not make much difference compared to conventional braces.

Advantages of Invisalign 

1. Aligners are clear plastic, almost invisible, unnoticeable when in place

2. Convenience in wearing and tolerable discomfort compared to metal braces

3. Ease of use-aligners are easy to place or remove

4. Simple to care for – just clean as directed at least once daily 

5. Oral hygiene friendly since aligners can be taken off  prior to meals, and allows thorough teeth brushing after eating

6. Lower cases of tooth decay during treatment

7. Decreased treatment time. Results of studies revealed an average of 12 to 19 months correction period

8. Little irritation to tongue and inside of mouth since causing objects like wires are not present

9. Can be removed for special occasions 

You can wear a better smile without metal braces by consulting your dentist or orthodontist about Invisalign.

Related Dentist Benefits Articles

Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

The Snack Food Industry – Our Children’s Secret Adversary

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Demystifying Invisalign

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Do you have to wear braces but you would like to avoid wearing wires and bands? Invisalign deserves a second look. This versatile treatment helps correct a broad range of dental and orthodontic conditions without traditional metal braces. Impressions are taken of your teeth, then a computerized treatment plan is developed. Specialized for you, it shows your smile with the corrected, repositioned teeth and estimates the time that will be needed for the process.

A series of clear plastic aligners are designed specifically to correct your dental problems. Each aligner is formulated to move a single tooth or a small group of teeth. These devices fit over the surface of the teeth, eliminating wires, and are usually worn 20 to 22 hours a day. You may feel a slight pressure when a new set of aligners is applied but, overall, this treatment is much less painful than metal braces. 

Each set of aligners is worn for about two weeks, then is replaced, advancing your treatment. The success of Invisalign depends upon your commitment. Research studies conducted revealed that the common metal braces treatment takes around 36 months but in some cases it could be as long as 96 months. The Invisalign treatment appears to be much quicker, requiring an average of 12 to 18 months.

Invisalign Usage Requirements

Here are must requirements to be satisfied when using Invisalign:

1. Set aside aligners before eating

2. Brush your teeth after eating and before putting back aligners to your mouth

3. If you grind your teeth at night, you may wear the liners down before the next set is needed. Be wary on tear and wear factor which should require you to replace the aligner timely.

4. You have to wear the aligners for at least 20 hours but not more than 22 hours a day.

If you fail to keep the aligners in for the required length of time, the next set in the series set may not fit. Thus, new impressions and aligners will be necessary, adding to the cost. The cost of Invisalign varies by need and geographic area. For some, the cost involved does not make much difference compared to conventional braces.

Advantages of Invisalign 

1. Aligners are clear plastic, almost invisible, unnoticeable when in place

2. Convenience in wearing and tolerable discomfort compared to metal braces

3. Ease of use-aligners are easy to place or remove

4. Simple to care for – just clean as directed at least once daily 

5. Oral hygiene friendly since aligners can be taken off  prior to meals, and allows thorough teeth brushing after eating

6. Lower cases of tooth decay during treatment

7. Decreased treatment time. Results of studies revealed an average of 12 to 19 months correction period

8. Little irritation to tongue and inside of mouth since causing objects like wires are not present

9. Can be removed for special occasions 

You can wear a better smile without metal braces by consulting your dentist or orthodontist about Invisalign.

More Dentist Benefits Articles

Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

The Snack Food Industry – Our Children’s Secret Adversary

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Demystifying Invisalign

This may come as a shocking description of things like chocolate, crisps, milkshakes, fizzy drinks etc, but my aim isn’t to shock, rather inform people of what these things really are. Cigarette packets have clear warnings about their effects, as should most of the junk food and snacks that are consumed in this country at obscene rates a year. Not everyone can be versed in the intricacies of nutritional therapy, but is it asking too much to exercise caution and read the labels on the products we buy to feed ourselves and our children? The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of Junk is “discarded articles, rubbish, anything regarded as little value, a slang term for narcotic drugs” a fitting description of the highly addictive, poisonous substances they are, why should we feed our children and ourselves these things.

Now lets see the effects of just 10 of the hundreds of additives that are in ourselves and our children’s snack foods, so you are better informed the next time you go to increase the profit margins of companies whose only concern is money and power, and never consider the sometimes irreversible damage they are doing to ourselves and our children. If it’s a suspected carcinogenic, it means there are definitely studies out there which confirm these suspicions and if it’s banned in baby food, it doesn’t make it safe for you.

Aspartame – This sugar substitute is 200 times sweeter than sugar, banned in babies food, it enhances the stimulatory effect of flavourings such as Monosodium Glutamate, adversely effects nervous system and is a suspected carcinogenic (cancer causing agent).

Xylitol – A sugar substitute (bulk sweetener) found in some chewing gums. It is toxic to the brain, liver, and urinary passages in high doses and can cause diarrhoea.

Monosodium Glutamate – This is an all purpose seasoning used to enhance the flavours of food – it is a well known neurotoxin (toxin affecting the brain) found in crisps, seasonings and many take away foods.

E100 Curcumin – A food colouring for creamy yellow colouring – Used in sweets, fish fingers and yoghurts and linked to possible gene damage.

E110 Sunset Yellow – A yellow food colouring – Used in jams, cakes, ice-creams and yoghurts to name a few and is a suspected carcinogen that can induce an allergy to sunlight, which would be detrimental to melanin dominant individuals who need sunlight.

E133 Brilliant Blue – A blue food colouring – Used in fruit and apple & black Current Drinks, can cause allergic reactions

E154 Kipper Brown – A brown food colouring – Used in sweets and sausages, now a branded carcinogen which has been banned in several countries. (Remember, shops stock food from many foreign countries)

E466 Carboxymethyl cellulose sodium salt – Used in orange and lemon drinks, ice cream and dessert toppings to name a few. Another suspected carcinogen which can cause stomach bloating and gas.

Extract of Quillaia – Used in fizzy drinking to help them froth up and can cause intestinal damage.

E422 Glycerol – Used as a sweetener in many sweets and chewing gum, can cause many side effects including nausea, headache, thirst and bowel disturbances.

What does all this mean for ourselves and our children? It means that from a young age, our mentality, fertility, hormone levels, concentration levels, behaviour, emotions, major organs of elimination, brain activity, ability to learn and ability to live holistically are all shot to pieces by mutated, irradiated, heavily denatured foods and snack food products, all in the name of self gratification and money.

If you think these drug foods don’t affect you think again, all of the following can be attributed to their consumption: irritability, depression, dental problems, dehydration, mucus, frequent colds, hyperactivity, Chrones disease, cravings, diabetes, high blood pressures, kidney and liver problems, constipation, diarrhoea, skin eruptions, foul smelling faeces and urine, thrush, tiredness and even harsh foot and body odour to name a few. Don’t our children deserve better than this? Are we going to be responsible for their heath problems later in life? Shouldn’t we try and give them the best chance possible to be healthy and holistic in this polluted world?

Our sickness is big business, so we can’t expect to get much help on our quest for health. Chemical producers sell their chemicals to food companies who produce junk food. Food companies sell their products to consumers and in the process, advertising, marketing and packaging companies all get rich. Even dentist benefit from half the population having decayed teeth, plaque build up and gum disease. This is not conspiracy theory or an exaggeration of our situation; these companies have absolutely no regard for your health.

For the most part, chemicals approved for use in our foods by the Food & Drug Administration have never really had their effects tested on humans, some countries even ban some of them. Scientist know the detrimental effects of the pesticides, fertilisers, preservatives and additives which are in our food, but once the foods have been irradiated (exposed to large amounts of radiation to kill germs and bacteria) and refined, they produce new mutant chemicals which all combine together and they have no real idea of the effects of these new substances.

Holistically, we now probably don’t know what certain foods taste like in their natural state. A banana milkshake, for example, used to consist of milk, bananas and sugar blended together. Now there are over 10 different ingredients in them, most of which are chemical additives. I wouldn’t advise drinking dairy milk and sugar ordinarily, but the original recipe is miles better than the artificial soup they have now. It is important that our children appreciate the natural tastes of fruits and vegetables, not just seasoning. The younger the child, the easier it is to feed them holistically, because for the most part they don’t know the difference between mashed carrots, brown rice and broccoli with or without seasoning, get them used to that, don’t get them hooked on addictive foods and an early age. Even older children can be persuaded. Be the example and show them the benefits. It really works, you can improve their diets, take it step by step, slowly replace foods if it makes it easier, find out which ones they like and let your children help you.

Try some of these simple alternatives, to make steps towards better health, especially for our children:

Before you feed them, are they just thirsty? Get your children drink plain water – hunger pangs can sometimes result from dehydration. So instead of them eating sweets or junk which will further rob their bodies of water and nutrients, let them drink water. Water will also increase their concentration and help their digestive system.

At their main meals, try to balance proteins with carbohydrates, not enough proteins may make them crave carbohydrates. Include a fibre as often as possible, as it is filling to them so they want need to snack as much.

Instead of fizzy or cordials – Honey water – 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of warm water, stir until dissolved then cool. Add lemon, ginger or stevia (herb) if required).

Ice Tea – Use 4 of your favourite herbal tea bags or loose herbsand a handful of raisins and stew in 1 litre of boiling water for 20 minutes then leave to cool. Add lemon or honey if required.

Instead of regular crisps : gluten free crisps, nuts & seeds (sources of minerals) and rice, oat and corn cakes (good sources of fibre). All can be eaten with humus.

Replace sweets with fresh fruit, if you buy dried, soak them first and only eat a few, they are also quite high in sugar.

Banana Milkshake – Blend 200mls of rice, oat or almond milk, 1 ripe banana, 1 tablespoon of honey, a bit of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla essence, blend for 90 seconds. Lovely.

Do you have to wear braces but you would like to avoid wearing wires and bands? Invisalign deserves a second look. This versatile treatment helps correct a broad range of dental and orthodontic conditions without traditional metal braces. Impressions are taken of your teeth, then a computerized treatment plan is developed. Specialized for you, it shows your smile with the corrected, repositioned teeth and estimates the time that will be needed for the process.

A series of clear plastic aligners are designed specifically to correct your dental problems. Each aligner is formulated to move a single tooth or a small group of teeth. These devices fit over the surface of the teeth, eliminating wires, and are usually worn 20 to 22 hours a day. You may feel a slight pressure when a new set of aligners is applied but, overall, this treatment is much less painful than metal braces. 

Each set of aligners is worn for about two weeks, then is replaced, advancing your treatment. The success of Invisalign depends upon your commitment. Research studies conducted revealed that the common metal braces treatment takes around 36 months but in some cases it could be as long as 96 months. The Invisalign treatment appears to be much quicker, requiring an average of 12 to 18 months.

Invisalign Usage Requirements

Here are must requirements to be satisfied when using Invisalign:

1. Set aside aligners before eating

2. Brush your teeth after eating and before putting back aligners to your mouth

3. If you grind your teeth at night, you may wear the liners down before the next set is needed. Be wary on tear and wear factor which should require you to replace the aligner timely.

4. You have to wear the aligners for at least 20 hours but not more than 22 hours a day.

If you fail to keep the aligners in for the required length of time, the next set in the series set may not fit. Thus, new impressions and aligners will be necessary, adding to the cost. The cost of Invisalign varies by need and geographic area. For some, the cost involved does not make much difference compared to conventional braces.

Advantages of Invisalign 

1. Aligners are clear plastic, almost invisible, unnoticeable when in place

2. Convenience in wearing and tolerable discomfort compared to metal braces

3. Ease of use-aligners are easy to place or remove

4. Simple to care for – just clean as directed at least once daily 

5. Oral hygiene friendly since aligners can be taken off  prior to meals, and allows thorough teeth brushing after eating

6. Lower cases of tooth decay during treatment

7. Decreased treatment time. Results of studies revealed an average of 12 to 19 months correction period

8. Little irritation to tongue and inside of mouth since causing objects like wires are not present

9. Can be removed for special occasions 

You can wear a better smile without metal braces by consulting your dentist or orthodontist about Invisalign.

Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

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Ways To Get Your Dental Practice Marketing Where Potential Patients Can Find You

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the Best Dental Care

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the best dental care

Given the number of conditions and treatments available, it can be a huge challenge to select an appropriate dental treatment plan for yourself. Even with Dental Insurance, coverage typically tops out at around 00 – so if you have more than one root canal, an implant or a crown, you will be soon be paying out of-pocket. At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ by providing the details of your city, state, and zip code, you can access information regarding the dental treatments and options provided by dentists & dental surgeons in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com business directory is an extensive database with details about dentists, dental care treatment plans and price lists offered across 300 city ares in the United States.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com database is extremely well organized, resourceful, and efficient means of searching for specific information in the shortest possible time.
 
Arriving at a cost-effective treatment plan

More often than not, it isn’t easy to establish the costs involved which selecting a dental care treatment plan.  Going through hundreds of websites and researching information regarding prices offered becomes a tedious process. 

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ we have compiled information on price lists offered by various dental care facilities, dentists, and dental surgeons for various treatment plans offered.  By entering the details of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to go through the price lists of various treatment plans being offered in your area. 

The http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/cost engine will also help you arrive at an average cost for any chosen treatment.  This will help you gauge and understand details about the prevailing costs for specific dental treatments your chosen area.  Of course, depending upon your condition and the expertise of the chosen dental care specialist costs could vary a little but you will certainly be able to arrive at an estimated cost per treatment. 

In addition to this, the SmartHealthbuyer.com cost engine has another feature which will help you compare costs among various treatment plans.  Depending upon your requirement, whether it is root canal treatment or teeth whitening you will know what the prevailing rates are for various treatments in your area.

Locating a skilled, experienced, and professional Dentist

Visiting a dentist, especially for children and in some cases for adults too can be a scary experience. The fear of pain and the thought having your tooth pulled out is enough to make you want to put off visiting a dentist if you can.  But this is not a solution and the idea is to dispel all fear, generate confidence and build a professional rapport with your dentist.  It therefore becomes extremely important that you find the right professional in the industry. 

SmartHealthbuyer.com has an extensive business directory with names and details of listed dentists located across 300 metros in the United States.  By providing the name of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to access information regarding various dental clinics, dentists, and dental surgeons located in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com is an easy and efficient way of locating the best dentists in your area and you can do this without having to sift through hundreds of web pages.  Based on your requirement and the expertise and experience of various dentists located in your area, you will be able to shortlist the ones that meet your criteria. 

What to look for in a dentist?

Skill, practice, proficiency, experience, and knowledge everything counts when you are selecting a professional dentist to take care of your requirement.  Besides this, kindly note all 50 States and the District of Columbia require dentists to be licensed.  Qualified dentists must have met the State licensing requirements by passing the National Board Dental Examinations.  Price alone is often a very poor indicator of the treatment that you will receive. It is much more important to look at the Dentist reviews, qualifications, years in practice and overall profile and professionalism than to compare dentists on price.

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ you will be able to access information regarding the dentists’ educational qualifications & background, and licensure details.  In addition to this SmartHealthbuyer.com will provide you access to go through reviews, feedback, references, and recommendations for various dentists listed in our database. 

This information will help you assess the experience and expertise of various dentists listed in your area.  SmartHealthbuyer.com is one of the most cost-effective and well-organized method of choosing the right dental care treatment plan, at the best possible price, and above all getting treated by the best dental expert in the industry.

Please visit http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/

For Braces
http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/Braces/
Cosmetic Dentistry
http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/Cosmetic/

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Question by Oracion en Orlando: What does it mean when your insurance lists “dental vendor” as part of your benefits?
This is kind of an emergency-I need to hurry up and see a dentist, today, but I do not know if dentistry is covered with my plan. I tried calling, but the recording said they were closed for the holiday. Online it says in the “other benefits” section, that “dental vendor” is included. Does this mean that it will cover my check up at the dentist’s office?

Please help!

Best answer:

Answer by dwbryant06
If it is a medical plan, most do not cover dental unless you were involved in an accident (ie. your teeth got knocked out or broken). You need to read you policy, maybe got to their online web page and seek out the “definitions” section to see what is covered.

ps. your not going to get to see a dentist on the holiday without going to an emergency room.. thought dentists are not staffed in hospitals. You need to call you regular dentist (they should have an “incase of emergencies” part to their recording… if it is pain… I would suggest going to the ER and see if a doc will get you a script until tuesday.

What do you think? Answer below!

Please read other answers to this question at the very bottom of this page, below you will find a video and related articles that will try to answer the question, if you have a proper answer please post it at the bottom.

Ways To Get Your Dental Practice Marketing Where Potential Patients Can Find You

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the Best Dental Care

Someone left an ancient artifact at my front door last week. It was something called…”Yellow Pages.”

Of course the Yellow Pages aren’t quite an artifact yet, but as more and more people let their fingers do the walking online—rather than in a paper book—where your dental office pops up on an Internet search will have far more impact on how new patients find your office.

Based on this, let’s try an experiment. Pretend you are a young professional with a growing family new to the area looking for a dentist. Would you look in the Yellow Pages? No, you’d Google. So open Google on your computer and type in some search words. Most likely you would just enter dentist and the name of your city.

What do you get? A Google search for “dentist Los Angeles” returns 1,870,000 results. Does your name or practice appear anywhere on the first page of your town? How about page two? In the Los Angeles test example only 8 actual dentists appear on the opening page and 9 on page two. Face it if you aren’t one of those 17 dentists the chances of a random searcher finding your Web page are pretty slim. So of more than 5,000 dentists in Los Angeles at any one time, only 17 can expect new patients to find them with Google.

Optimization

Getting to page one of Google has spawned a whole new industry called SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO services have been popping up everywhere and in every industry. Many SEO services promise to use secret formulas get you to page one, after which we are assured riches beyond measure will follow.

But remember what you have been told you about things that were too good to be true? In fact, Google is constantly adjusting their techniques to insure that they deliver the best possible search results. Google does not want results that have been manipulated; they want honest results that satisfy the customer.

Let’s go back to the Los Angeles example and SEO. Not everyone will be using dental practice marketing or SEO, but even if just ten percent are, that means in Los Angeles 500 dentists are trying to claw their way onto page one of Google. And despite vendor hype, they are all using very similar techniques. There is no magic, super secret, mystical, hidden only known to this one person technique that will get you to the top of Google.

And even if you do get to the top of page one…how long will you stay there with hundreds of others working to push you off the top?

Who needs SEO?

Does that mean you should ignore SEO? Not really, it is good practice to optimize your site. However, it doesn’t make sense in most cases to spend a lot on an ongoing basis. Getting to page one of Google cannot be guaranteed in any large city. On the other hand there is a lot you can do to improve your relevance to search engines. Rather than secret SEO formulas a more appropriate method to improve search engine visibility is to have a Web page people like and visit. The more traffic you have the more relevant Google and the other search engines will view your site.

In smaller more medium sized cities, there are not as many dentists and not very many dentists are doing SEO. Therefore unlike in Los Angeles it is much easier to get listed on the first page. In a case like that it makes more sense to invest in SEO. In even smaller towns with less than six or seven dentists you will naturally float to the top because there just isn’t the competition. In this case SEO is less important but just as in the biggest cities the quality of your Web site is critical. That is ease of use, how it serves existing patients, and makes first impressions with potential new patients.

Mapping success

Back to our Google test search for “dentist Los Angeles”. Notice there is a little map on page one with ten dentists listed. This is called Google Local and it has the potential to attract more patients than the general Google Web search. Savvy Internet searchers are now using the map feature to find businesses, including dentists, who are located in their neighborhood.

Try this: click the Google local map. What shows up? If you want you can double click your neighborhood to zoom in even tighter. Is your office listed over on the left hand side? Are there any links to your Web site? Any user reviews? Anything under the more info tab?

Rather than some secret formula, it is this kind of information that makes your business and Web site attractive to Google. A site that is a local link with detailed information, with a coupon offer that generates additional Web traffic, which generates user reviews, which results in photo viewing or video viewing becomes attractive to the search engines. As a general rule, the listings with the most user reviews and additional information tend to be the ones that show up highest on the Google Local map list.

If you think about it, it is a lot like the traditional methods we have always used to grow a successful practice. That is to provide easy access, honest high quality service delivered in a friendly manner to attract patients who will be motivated to refer friends and family. We call that word of mouth. Sam Osmond, VP with Demandforce (demandforce.com) calls Google Local “Word of mouth 2.0″

Online assistance

If you want to DIY, you can sign up with a Google account, “claim” the listing and add all kinds of additional information that a patient could use to find your office and choose you as their dentist. You can add photos, videos, user reviews, Web links and keywords.

However, rather than a DIY approach most dentists will be better served by using a service like Demandforce or Sesame Communications (sesamecommunications.com).

Osmond describes what Demand Force does as “communications and reputational marketing.” That is, they gather all the additional information about your office, including user reviews and add it to your Google Local information.

Sesame provides a similar service setting up your Google presence plus all the online tools an office needs to communicate starting with a Web site, e-mail reminders, and Web 2.0 interactivity with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of this is important and effective however the only way to ensure that your dental office will appear on page one of a Google search is to buy it. It is easy to do, Sesame will help you with that as well, and you only pay if a searcher clicks your listing. That is you pay per click or PPC.

How much?

To be in the top few listings in a megalopolis like Los Angeles it will cost from .00 to .00 per click.

To be at the top in a search in Boise a thriving city of 200,000 people you will pay from .00 to .00.

To get at the top of a search for a small town of 20,000 people anywhere USA will cost you pennies.

Douglas Slighting the President of Dental Branding says, “In LA and smaller cities and towns Pay Per Click (PPC) can make sense. You may not be able to get listed on the first page next to the map naturally, but with PPC you can be listed on the first page and you only pay when someone clicks through to your site. We have found that for many dentists (especially in larger cities) PPC can bring a significant return.”

However patients find your website, whether from a Google map, a PPC listing or from a friend’s referral it will all be wasted if your website is no good. If it is unattractive, provides limited information, or worse yet, is out of date it is almost worse than not having a website at all. In fact, Google and the other search engines will demote and even drop sites that have not been updated in the last year.

The best way to grow a practice remains good strong personal referrals and word of mouth. On the other hand, the Internet and new digital media provide us with amazing and relatively inexpensive means to market our services that simply did not exist in the past. The Yellow Pages are fast becoming an historical artifact; don’t let that happen to your practice. The future is coming and it will be amazing.

Choosing the best dental care

Given the number of conditions and treatments available, it can be a huge challenge to select an appropriate dental treatment plan for yourself. Even with Dental Insurance, coverage typically tops out at around 00 – so if you have more than one root canal, an implant or a crown, you will be soon be paying out of-pocket. At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ by providing the details of your city, state, and zip code, you can access information regarding the dental treatments and options provided by dentists & dental surgeons in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com business directory is an extensive database with details about dentists, dental care treatment plans and price lists offered across 300 city ares in the United States.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com database is extremely well organized, resourceful, and efficient means of searching for specific information in the shortest possible time.
 
Arriving at a cost-effective treatment plan

More often than not, it isn’t easy to establish the costs involved which selecting a dental care treatment plan.  Going through hundreds of websites and researching information regarding prices offered becomes a tedious process. 

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ we have compiled information on price lists offered by various dental care facilities, dentists, and dental surgeons for various treatment plans offered.  By entering the details of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to go through the price lists of various treatment plans being offered in your area. 

The http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/cost engine will also help you arrive at an average cost for any chosen treatment.  This will help you gauge and understand details about the prevailing costs for specific dental treatments your chosen area.  Of course, depending upon your condition and the expertise of the chosen dental care specialist costs could vary a little but you will certainly be able to arrive at an estimated cost per treatment. 

In addition to this, the SmartHealthbuyer.com cost engine has another feature which will help you compare costs among various treatment plans.  Depending upon your requirement, whether it is root canal treatment or teeth whitening you will know what the prevailing rates are for various treatments in your area.

Locating a skilled, experienced, and professional Dentist

Visiting a dentist, especially for children and in some cases for adults too can be a scary experience. The fear of pain and the thought having your tooth pulled out is enough to make you want to put off visiting a dentist if you can.  But this is not a solution and the idea is to dispel all fear, generate confidence and build a professional rapport with your dentist.  It therefore becomes extremely important that you find the right professional in the industry. 

SmartHealthbuyer.com has an extensive business directory with names and details of listed dentists located across 300 metros in the United States.  By providing the name of your city, state, and zip code, you will be able to access information regarding various dental clinics, dentists, and dental surgeons located in your area.  The SmartHealthbuyer.com is an easy and efficient way of locating the best dentists in your area and you can do this without having to sift through hundreds of web pages.  Based on your requirement and the expertise and experience of various dentists located in your area, you will be able to shortlist the ones that meet your criteria. 

What to look for in a dentist?

Skill, practice, proficiency, experience, and knowledge everything counts when you are selecting a professional dentist to take care of your requirement.  Besides this, kindly note all 50 States and the District of Columbia require dentists to be licensed.  Qualified dentists must have met the State licensing requirements by passing the National Board Dental Examinations.  Price alone is often a very poor indicator of the treatment that you will receive. It is much more important to look at the Dentist reviews, qualifications, years in practice and overall profile and professionalism than to compare dentists on price.

At http://www.smarthealthbuyer.com/Dental/ you will be able to access information regarding the dentists’ educational qualifications & background, and licensure details.  In addition to this SmartHealthbuyer.com will provide you access to go through reviews, feedback, references, and recommendations for various dentists listed in our database. 

This information will help you assess the experience and expertise of various dentists listed in your area.  SmartHealthbuyer.com is one of the most cost-effective and well-organized method of choosing the right dental care treatment plan, at the best possible price, and above all getting treated by the best dental expert in the industry.

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