Building Trust: Navigating First Consultations and Patient Expectations in Dental Care
Running a clinic is not easy. Much has changed, and now clinics need to offer great service and customer care beyond good dentistry.
Running a clinic is not easy. Much has changed, and now clinics need to offer great service and customer care beyond good dentistry.
The Tufts University School of Dental Medicine will be the stage of the 2nd Global Symposium on Implant Dentistry in Boston, USA, between October 26th and 27th, and I’m thrilled to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside an amazing panel of world-renowned colleagues.
Dr. Miguel Stanley is the founder and clinical director of the White Clinic in Lisbon, Portugal. His patients travel to him from around the world; among his clients are famous athletes and celebrities. “I’m an old school dentist doing advanced integrative dentistry,” he said.
In recent years, the medical community has made significant strides in understanding the intricate connections between oral health and overall systemic health. However, as we delve deeper into this crucial relationship, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ve only scratched the surface.
For private practitioners, dentistry is a gentle balancing act between providing safe and quality oral healthcare, and running a business based on other people’s wellbeing, including their own and that of their staff. A business is always a business, and healthcare is always healthcare, which means it’s crucial that patients understand the investment that goes on behind the scenes of a private dental practice when questioning why a dental appointment is so expensive.
In a world that’s so used to moving fast, it is becoming increasingly important to know when and where to slow down. And dentistry just so happens to be one of those areas – thanks to the global phenomenon Slow Dentistry that has gained popularity in over 50 countries worldwide. I know what you’re thinking: why would patients want to spend any longer than they already have to at their dentist? Let’s discuss why.
Save the date: see you in Hungary on May 7.
Join me at the 11TH IAOCI World Congress in Washington.
Prevention is everything when it comes to cancer and oral cancer is a silent killer and many times goes undetected.
Dr. Stanley was invited to lecture alongside a few of the most prominent periodontist in the world to discuss a unique bio material that contains hyaluronic acid that is used to accelerate the formation of collagen. This allows for a faster and more predictable bone regeneration. As always, Dr. Stanley only chooses the best for his patients and his team.
With 24 years of experience in diagnosing, analysing and treating complex oral health problems, most of which are deeply connected to general health issues, I’ve devised a simple treatment philosophy that ensures comprehensive results. It all starts and ends with the 7 Ts.
On 27 February, three days after Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, Dr Miguel Stanley set off from Lisbon in Portugal to Cracow in Poland with his friend Mike and father-in-law, Viktor Beznosiuk, who now lives in Portugal and even at 68 years old could not be dissuaded from going to fight for Ukraine.
In this interview, Dr Miguel Stanley gives some insights into the extraordinary design concept of his White Clinic.
I vehemently condemn any and all of the atrocious attacks perpetrated by the Russian government against the free and democratic independent nation of Ukraine.
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