Teledentistry is a rising trend and an expansion of the traditional dental practice. Patients can have a virtual dental home in addition to a physical one. Teledentistry can increase quality of care and practice revenue streams by providing profitable outreach to the community without adding more chairs. As this book title indicates, there are many critical decisions to create your pathway to teledentistry prosperity.
- NEW! Content includes the latest information on alternative workforce models, dental insurance and reimbursement, production, and inventory planning - UPDATED! Art program with modern illustrations and photographs helps you to understand today's office environment, tools, and equipment. - EXPANDED and IMPROVED! Test Bank with cognitive leveling and mapping to the Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) test blueprint.
Provides training for CDT and ICD-10 coding. Includes 100 coding Q&As, 50 detailed coding scenarios with step-by-step solutions, and quizzes. Increases coding comprehension and may help reduce the number of claims rejected due to inaccurate coding. Developed by the ADA, the official source for CDT codes. Two-color text and full-color illustrated section on coding for implants.
Practical Practice Solutions in Dentistry: Building Your Successful Future provides a broad overview of how to start a business and be successful. With contributions from industry experts sharing real-life lessons learned in the management of dentistry offices, this volume delivers a comprehensive practice management resource. The editor, Dr. Sheri B. Doniger, set a course to collect expert advice on basic and complex concepts for dentists starting out as small business owners. The chapter contributors provide readers with dental industry voices sharing information from a first-hand viewpoint. Chapters offer strategies for business topics such as negotiating leases, hiring and team training, and billing and dental coding.
This manual provides expert assistance to practice staff who find it difficult to keep up with the frequent chances, revisions, and deletions in dentistry's CDT codes. Reader-friendly graphics help dental practices prevent common coding errors and understand common reimbursement policies.
Dentistry goes beyond providing excellent oral care to patients. It also requires an accurate record of the care that was delivered, making CDT codes an essential part of dentists’ everyday business. 2022 code changes include: 16 new codes, 14 revisions, 6 deletions, and the 8 codes adopted in March 2021 regarding vaccine administration and molecular testing for a public health related pathogen. CDT 2022 contains new codes for: Previsit patient screenings; Fabricating, adjusting and repairing sleep apnea appliances; Intracoronal and extracoronal splints; Immediate partial dentures; Rebasing hybrid prostheses; Removal of temporary anchorage devices. Also includes alphabetic and numeric indices and ICD 10 CM codes related to dental procedures. CDT codes are developed by the ADA and are the only HIPAA recognized code set for dentistry. Includes app and ebook access.
This book is the ultimate reference on patent foramen ovale (PFO), a defect in the septum of the heart estimated to be present in more than twenty percent of the adult population and a proven cause of systemic embolism. All chapters have been written by internationally recognized experts in the field and cover PFO genetics and anatomy in addition to the effect PFO can have on various different organs and its supposed involvement in several conditions and clinical syndromes such as migraine, diving incidence, platynea orthodeoxia, economy class syndrome, sleep apnea and persistent desaturations in mild right ventricular dysfunction. As PFO anatomy varies significantly between individuals, chapters have also been included on the diagnostic tools, methods and techniques for appropriate assessment, detection and characterization of PFO. Furthermore, the multitude of available closure devices and techniques for PFO closure are discussed together with current and ongoing trial data. The book concludes with guidance and instruction on establishing a successful PFO program. Patent Foramen Ovale will be an essential text for the whole adult and pediatric interventional community, general cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, neurologists and device companies in addition to medical students, graduate students and fellows in training.
To find the most current and correct codes, dentists and their dental teams can trust CDT 2021: Current Dental Terminology, developed by the ADA, the official source for CDT codes. 2021 code changes include 28 new codes, 7 revised codes, and 4 deleted codes. CDT 2021 contains new codes for counseling for the control and prevention of adverse oral, behavioral, and systemic health effects associated with high-risk substance use, including vaping; medicament application for the prevention of caries; image captures done through teledentistry by a licensed practitioner to forward to another dentist for interpretation; testing to identify patients who may be infected with SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19). CDT codes are developed by the ADA and are the only HIPAA-recognized code set for dentistry. CDT 2021 codes go into effect on January 1, 2021. -- American Dental Association
This book provides tools to us the CDT 2018 new, revised and deleted codes as well 2018 Perio Protocols Flow Chart including updated codes. With a quickly evolving system, this book is an anthology including CDT Shifts 2017, CDT Shifts 2016, CDT Shifts 2015, and CDT Shifts 2014.
NEW HOPE FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS ENDURED PREGNANCY ANGUISH. Of all human embryos conceived in the US, 65% don't survive past four weeks. Of those that do, one in four miscarry. Society largely turns a blind eye to these shocking numbers ... and to the fact that every year more American women die of cardiovascular disease than from cancer, accidents, Alzheimer's and respiratory diseases combined. What these topics have in common is the placenta, the organ which is the subject of this eye-opening book. THE WORKING WOMB brings recurrent miscarriage out of the shadows, presenting a new, placenta-based understanding of pregnancy that challenges conventional pregnancy management, and offering crucial answers to women struggling with the lonely despair of repeat miscarriage or other pregnancy obstacles. Dr Kofinas, one of America's leading high-risk pregnancy experts, delivers science-based optimism to mothers at their wits' end. Drawing on thousands of patient files amassed at his New York clinic, he shares true stories of women who were close to believing a successful pregnancy was beyond them. These inspiring, readable, intimate case summaries tell how, with diagnostic and treatment methods based on placenta science, healthy babies were born despite severe pregnancy complications. ("Today my office walls and files are full of photos of their thriving children.") THE WORKING WOMB confronts our society's widespread ignorance of the placenta's key role in determining pregnancy outcomes, and exposes the disgrace of America's high fetal death rate. In plain language that can be understood by readers with no scientific education, Dr Kofinas explains how fetal deaths, recurrent miscarriage, and women's cardiovascular disease all relate to the placenta. The book is filled with surprising facts that the public and medical practitioners alike should know about how the placenta shapes pregnancy outcomes, as well as human health in the womb, infancy, childhood and adulthood. This information-packed distillation of decades of clinical experience and insight offers science-based hope to women who want to defeat recurrent miscarriage and other pregnancy disorders arising from later-age motherhood, genetic problems, immune-system problems, and more. Revealing how insurance companies influence pregnancy management, the author spotlights neglected areas of pregnancy science, women's health, healthcare failure, the shortcomings of physician education, the questionable practice of dividing pregnancy into trimesters, the ways in which valuable but often ignored clinical knowledge can be amassed by physicians outside the research establishment, and the massive economic and human cost to society of healthcare that focuses less on preventing illness than on waiting for predictable illness to happen before responding to it, often too late. THE WORKING WOMB explains what the placenta is, how it's formed, and its profound effects, what it needs to work successfully, how its problems relate to various types of pregnancy failure, and how the timely, responsive monitoring of placenta development can prevent disaster and address womb crises in time to save the pregnancy. The book is aimed primarily at women experiencing or anticipating pregnancy complications, but it will also be invaluable for their families, as well as for physicians, including obstetricians.
