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Are You Old-Fashioned or Cutting Edge?

10/31/2018

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In orthodontics, to always wait for young patients to get all of their adult teeth in is an old-fashioned approach. The cutting edge in orthodontics is to know when an early treatment option will best benefit the young patient and to provide that as an option. Parents and patients need to be aware of this option and the advantages it has. 

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Interception Orthodontics: Treating Airway and Much More

10/30/2018

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Airway issues in children are frequent and VERY often undiagnosed. The dentist with Interception Orthodontics skill can identify the problems and provide vital, life-changing therapies that can help. Airway is just one of many issues where the dentist knowing Interception Orthodontics can provide transformational treatment. 

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A truth to change your life

10/30/2018

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You will experience what you think you will experience.  

If you think it will be challenging, it will be.  

If you think it will be easy, it will be.  

If you think you will “catch” the bug that’s going around, chances are, you will.  If you think you’ll get your work done, you will.  If you think you’ll be at the office late every night, you will.

So - decide to change the way you think.

Decide it will be easy, you will stay healthy, you will get it all done and won’t be at the office late.

Coach John Wooden taught his players to think they would win.  And they did.  At an extraordinary rate.

Decide one (or more if you are game,) extraordinary, exciting accomplishment(s) you will achieve this week.  You will.  

It’s all in you.  It’s all in your thoughts.  Your success awaits.​

Love,
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Keys to finding your purpose

10/25/2018

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During a recent business trip to Greece, I had some thoughts on how a dentist -- or anyone else -- can find their life's purpose. The need to define where you're going is something not to be delayed. Here are some steps to take now to make your journey much more rewarding. 

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'Above all else, guard your heart.'

10/23/2018

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A little book by Chris Widener, with the title of Solomon’s wisdom above, says that guarding your heart is the single most important lesson for achieving, sustaining and enjoying success.

How is your heart?  Do you guard it?  At the core of who you are, what you do, and of your very life, is your heart.  How is it?  

”...for it is the wellspring of life.”  

An extraordinary heart and extraordinary people are very uncommon.  

“If You Want to Live an Extraordinary Life, you need to give up a Normal One.” ~ Darren Hardy

“If you want to live an Extraordinary Life, you have to give up many of the things that are part of a Normal One.” - Srinivas Rao

Before you become aware and begin to guard your heart, you can spend time with just about anyone. You can eat whatever you like.  As Darren Hardy says, “You can justify activities and behaviors that are, frankly, mediocre.”  

But as you become more aware, you realize you want to and need to change.

This is guarding your heart.  This is becoming.  This is the road to extraordinary.  Will you choose it?

Love,
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Courage to be a Dentist

10/22/2018

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Most of us start practice not knowing just how difficult dental practice can be. We have the challenge to look at our practice as a whole and ask ourselves, "What is missing in this picture?" Dentists need the courage to figure out what needs to change and the courage to make those changes. 

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Ortho in your practice, Doctor! Part V - Get a Clear Vision of Your Mission and Pursue It Now

10/18/2018

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Orthodontics and Clarity
It’s easy to believe that orthodontics is a mystery.  In many schools and in many dentists, that belief is pervasive.  The mystery of orthodontics, just like the mystery of each and every area of dentistry, is unveiled and solved in learning and practicing. 

Your imagination begins the process of opening the mystery to excitement, fun and transformational possibilities, and your intention and actions carry you from there. 

Orthodontics can change your life, your practice, and so many lives that it leaves you in wonderment, in gratitude for the opportunities, for the incarnation of your dream, astonished once again, that your imagination has become manifest.

Come learn with us. Come learn more about orthodontics.  

Your dreams and imagination will become your goals;  your goals will become your accomplishments.  We can teach you how.  We can teach you what.  We can teach you.  We’ve taught many dentists just these things!


Whether you decide to provide the orthodontics, or you bring someone else in to do so, you will absolutely love what you learn, and begin unwinding the mystery and glory of orthodontic care in your practice.

Learning with us can be a miracle process.

Come let us blow your mind!  

Here’s to your success and joy. 

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Clarity
“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but..one must change or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: 'Yes, this is true, this is good.' This . . . is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. You don't forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. You don't really love — oh, what is here is higher than love! What's most frightening is that it's so terribly clear, and there's such joy. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it's worth it.”         
~  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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How to Start Improving Your Life - Today

10/16/2018

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(Recorded in Sounion, Greece)
Want a better life? This approach works for those in the dental profession, but is just as powerful for those working in any business.  You can make tiny, though important "course adjustments" that will eventually, immeasurably improve your life.  Here's what to do. 
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Today, will you choose to step forward or backward?

10/15/2018

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Right now, you have the choice -- step forward into growth and learning, or step backward into what feels like safety and security.​

Most people step backward - and guess what?!  That slowly kills your chances to become more, to become extraordinary.

“The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.”  
 ~ Seth Godin


But - there’s no security in life. 

Billions can go away fast, let alone the money of an average person. Health can change at any time. People can go away.  

That’s all scary!  

So, the search for security comes from that fear.  Generosity and courage are the antidotes.

Go forward into growth, to learning, to developing into the most generous, hopeful, courageous, forgiving and humble being you can be.

Step up.  Step up.  Step up.

Love,
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Orthodontics in Your Practice, Doctor! Part IV - Commit to Learn

10/11/2018

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PictureDr Chris Baker teaches orthodontics to general and pediatric dentists around the world. She has treated more than 1,800 cases in the last six years alone. .
You can change all things when you change yourself for the better.  So how do you need to change yourself?  The answer lies in what you want to FEEL.

Clarity about what you want to feel, be, experience is the key. 

“Self-protection leads to mediocrity.  Self-service leads to fortune.  Self-investment leads to fortune.”      ~ Jim Rohn


You life will never be the same, once you begin to change.
 

A profound commitment to learning, learning, learning, CONSTANT AND NEVER-ENDING SELF IMPROVEMENT is the key.  It’s an attitude.  It’s a mindset.  

Your progress brings you happiness.  Your plateau gets boring. 

You went to dental school.  It was exciting to learn, to grow to become.  It was exciting to begin practice.  It was exciting to see yourself becoming more and more.  Then, you plateau.  You level-off. 

You are bored, and worse yet, probably worried.  How can I make more money?  How can I deal with practice issues?  How can I deal with insurance and Medicaid problems?

We are designed to grow and grow, and to give.

Here’s an answer that has worked wonders for me:  adding orthodontics to my practice.  In fact, it brought me wonderment — excitement — scary, yet amazing stuff.  

It isn’t what your practice, your budget is costing you now.  It’s what it will cost you if you don’t change it, if you don’t grow.  

Don’t go one more day without learning something amazing, then giving it to someone else.

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Consider orthodontics.  
Consider what you can add to your life, to your staff’s lives, to your patients’ lives, to your family’s lives, to the world!

Why not now?  Why not you?

Get a game plan going.
Have conversations.
Do it NOW.

What is the date today?
Write it down.  BECAUSE - 
THIS could be the date that changes it all.
​This could be the date that gets you to bigger, better things, bringing you wealth, happiness and amazing gifts to others.


Choose the pain of discipline instead of the pain of regret.  Your practice, your life will NEVER be the same. It will be full of new abundance, new happiness, new wealth, new gifts to others.

Why not now?

Come learn with us.  We will teach you.  You can do it.  It’s your choice.  Get clarity, then get going!!  We LOVE TO HELP you make the deliberate steps again and again to create change.  

Yes you can do it!   And we are here to help!!

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    America's most-trusted teacher of orthodontic continuing education, Dr. Chris Baker has practiced and taught for more than 30 years, and is a current or former faculty member of three U.S. dental schools.  She is a pediatric dentist, author, blogger, dental practice consultant, and mentor.  Dr. Chris is also Past President and Senior Instructor of the American Orthodontic Society.  She is based in Texas, USA, but lectures around the world.

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