Michael Ventriello

Privacy
5 cybersecurity resolutions for your dental practice in 2025
By adopting these five resolutions in 2025, your dental practice can safeguard patient data, comply with regulations, and build trust with patients, writes Tasha Dickinson and Michael Ventriello.
January 17, 2025
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Practice Trends
Dental duets: Despite what you may have read, dentistry is a smart investment
The latest advances in dental technology offer exciting investment opportunities for individual investors, venture capital firms, and private equity groups, writes Michael Ventriello and Dr. Shervin Molayem.
November 7, 2024
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Office Management
Dental duets: Why we need improved technology interoperability to achieve optimal dental practice workflows
The authors believe the lack of interoperability among many innovative technologies poses a significant barrier to their effective implementation in dental practices and impedes the rate of adoption.
August 20, 2024
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Oral Cancer
5 ways dental-medical collaboration can improve oral cancer statistics
By implementing five collaborative strategies, dentists and physicians can shift the oral cancer paradigm to significantly reduce oral cancer mortality rates and improve overall patient outcomes, writes Michael Ventriello.
April 30, 2024
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Dental Practice
Why now is the time for you to become an author
Now more than ever, the dental community needs new voices to educate, motivate, and lead the way during the pandemic and long after it has passed -- and it will pass, writes Michael Ventriello. Part of that leadership in the dental industry will come from those who choose to submit their thoughts for others to read. In this article, Ventriello discusses the power of thought leadership through writing.
December 10, 2020
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Dental Practice
Seize the marketing advantage with teledentistry: Part 2
Teledentistry at one time may have been thought of as exclusively a public health service. However, as the technology has evolved and the costs involved lowered, the opportunity for this service to add to your practice's revenue has grown. Part 2 of this series by Michael Ventriello focuses on how to promote the benefits to your current and prospective patients.
April 3, 2019
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Dental Practice
Seize the marketing advantage with teledentistry: Part 1
Teledentistry may have once been thought of as exclusively a public health service. However, as the technology has evolved and the costs involved lowered, the opportunity for this service to add to your practice's revenue has grown. Part 1 of this new series by Michael Ventriello will focus on why your practice should embrace teledentistry, and the second part will focus on how to do so.
March 27, 2019
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Oral-Systemic Link
Do dentists need to doctor up on the oral-systemic link?
Michael Ventriello, owner of Ventriello Communications and an experienced voice in dental public relations, examines the need for more communication and collaboration around periodontal disease. Dentists and hygienists need to have difficult conversations with their patients and also work to bridge the dentist-physician communication gap, he writes.
April 26, 2017
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Oral Cancer
Do dentists need to doctor up on oral cancer?
Michael Ventriello, owner of Ventriello Communications and an experienced voice in dental public relations, explains why he "fired" his dentist over the lack of oral cancer screening. He writes that dentists and hygienists need to embrace examination tools and protocols to improve oral cancer screening and survival rates.
April 14, 2016
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This may cut dry socket, infections after 3rd-molar surgery
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A dentist accused of sending threatening messages to multiple victims, including an election official, was sentenced to two years in prison.
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