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    Brush

    By James Goolnik

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    Why is it, that when it comes to getting offered opportunities, it's always the same dentists who get there first? There has never been a better time to be in dentistry. But what does the future hold?
    Learn how to:
    1. Be one step ahead of your clients
    2. Offer what patients want
    3. Shrug off that white coat of the past and embrace the new you
    4. Avoid failures- learn from James mistakes and from mistakes of other dentists
    5. Increase your profile and the value of your brand by being invited to speak
    6. Create your niche and separate you and your profitability from the competition
    Find out:
    1. What are the only performance indicators you need to watch
    2. What are your teams strongest two motivators 3. What patients you actually need to see
    4. Do dentists really have the highest suicide rate?
    5. Why people really hate the dentist
    James shares with you his blueprint to create both a successful life and dental practice. Are you ready to succeed? The choice is yours. It always has been. The author's profits from this book will go to DENTAID to help build a clinic in Cambodia. Note:our retailers cannot honor this commitment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Goolnik
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9780956833211
    Brush
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    James Goolnik

    James Goolnik BDS MSc is a clinical dentist and founder of the Bow Lane Dental Group which is in London. James was previously President of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is a judge for both the Dental Industry Awards and the Private Dentistry Awards and he lectures internationally on work / life balance in dentistry.Twice listed in Private Dentistry’s poll of the top 20 Elite Dentists in the UK in 2011 and 2012, James has also been voted the most influential person in dentistry in the UK in 2011 and 2012 by the trade magazine, Dentistry. His book ‘Brush’ published is a number one best seller on Amazon and all the profits are channelled to the charity, Dentaid. The funds help equip and train a hospital dental surgery in addition to financing a mobile clinic in Malawi.

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      Book preview

      Brush - James Goolnik

      Brush

      Proven strategies to make you and your dental business shine

      James Goolnik BDS MSc

      Smashwords Edition

      Published 2011 by Bow Lane Limited

      Copyright James Goolnik 2011

      The right of James Goolnik to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

      A print version of this book is available at jamesgoolnik.com

      Profits are being donated to a Dentaid project to build a dental clinic in Cambodia. You can help support this by going to justgiving.com/James-Goolnik-Brush

      Edited and produced by tomboyleeditorial.com

      Smashwords Edition License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is dedicated to Harry and Kate

      Love, be loved and never stop learning

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Be a business owner and avoid a heart attack

      Chapter 2: Time, money and karma

      Chapter 3: This is a relationship business

      Chapter 4: It’s a journey—what are the signposts?

      Chapter 5: Providing what your patients want

      Chapter 6: Use the global market to your advantage

      Chapter 7: Build a team you can be proud of

      Chapter 8: You need to be one step ahead of your patient

      Chapter 9: Know and drive your market

      Chapter 10: Develop a support network

      Chapter 11: Clinical trends

      Chapter 12: What does the future hold?

      Chapter 13: Don’t forget to floss

      References

      Acknowledgments

      The people who have had the greatest impact on my life and encouraged me to dream:

      My mother Jacqueline who has been the rock of our family and can cook a mean chicken soup.

      My father Edward from whom I learnt about business from the age of 5.

      My brother Thomas, I’m proud of you.

      Harry and Kate, my fabulous children who believe anything is possible.

      Thomas Drewry, for your unreserved friendship.

      Mark Vardon, Sandra Garcia Martin, Chris Barrow, Manrina Rhode and Dell Goodrick, for reviewing my manuscript. Trent Smallwood, Cathy Jameson, Dennis Wells and Newton Fahl for being my gurus.

      My Entrepreneurs’ Organization buddies Daniel, Evan, Eliot, James and Julia.

      Vivienne my loyal nurse and the rest of the outstanding team at Bow Lane Dental Group.

      All my teachers, colleagues and patients past and present; your contribution to my life and this book have been immense. To Laila, Lydia, Van, Newton, Simon, Mike, Hugh and Pam who have shared your stories and helped me with the statistics. I hope I have done you proud.

      Mindy Gibbins-Klein, for giving me the structure to complete the book. Tom Boyle, my editor, for seeing potential in this book and editing and laying it out so professionally. Atholl McDonald, for the illustrations, his tennis tips and helping me with the cover.

      Finally I want to thank you, the reader, for having the ambition and drive to want to fulfil your potential. I hope that this may inspire you to help others as well.

      Introduction

      Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

      William Wordsworth

      First things first. I am a clinical dentist. I have worked in universities, hospitals, NHS practice and now in private practice. I studied for my undergraduate degree at King’s College London and my master’s degree at the Eastman Dental Institute in London; I now teach. At university I joined various dental organisations and got more and more involved in moulding their future. When the time came it was a natural progression to become president of the student body and help forge alliances with other universities. After qualifying I spent a year as a surgical house officer in a hospital, removing difficult wisdom teeth, repairing fractured jaws and putting people’s faces back together after they’d had a few too many drinks. My next position was a house officer in a periodontal department, where I got my first glimpse of teaching with the hygiene students. Then it was off into practice to find my fortune—at least that’s what I thought.

      I worked in NHS and mixed practices learning how to fix people’s teeth, often with insufficient time and a box of expired composites. One day I spotted an ad in a dental journal for a forward-thinking dentist to help set up a private practice in the City of London. The owner, Dr. Gregory Belok, had three practices in the US and wanted to set one up in London. We had three long telephone interviews and when we finally met we hit it off straight away. I had the honour of helping to set up a five surgery squat practice from scratch without having any financial responsibility. It was a unique practice in that we specialised in treating the Japanese community in the UK. All the support team were Japanese and I started to learn Japanese. I soon became fluent in asking Which tooth hurts? and Please spit out into the bowl. Not much use in my local Japanese restaurant, though! I was involved with hiring all the team and other dentists as needed.

      Once the practice was running smoothly and profitably I decided to further my training and study for a master’s degree in conservative dentistry (fixed prosthodontics). I had a mortgage and girlfriend to support so I decided to study part-time. One advantage of this was that it allowed me to keep in touch with what patients actually wanted. Once I completed the master’s, having made all my own laboratory work, I realised that I could not carry on practising the sort of dentistry I wanted without having a dental lab on-site. I found a master technician, Mr. Anthony Laurie, took the plunge and set up Bow Lane Dental from a derelict architects’ office in the City of London. We now have six treatment operatories with every dental specialist under one roof.

      In these pages I share stories of my successes and failures and what I have learned during the ten years I have spent building Bow Lane into one of the highest profile dental practices in the UK, not least through our internet presence on iTunes, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Foursquare and MSN.

      In 2009 I was honoured to be voted president of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentists, the second largest cosmetic dental organisation in Europe. In 2011 I was voted the most influential person in UK Dentistry. I have been fortunate to teach in over ten different countries and have personally trained more than 300 dentists and hygienists through my hands-on courses. I often get asked to mentor young dentists and that led me to think ‘What better way to start conversations and learning than through a book?’

      When I first mentioned writing a book, some said Go for it. Others said What have you got to say that anyone would want to hear? Some said that everything about dentistry had already been written. I disagreed. My take on the world of dentistry hadn’t been written. The book you are holding is the outcome of that debate. The fact that you have made the effort to beg, borrow, steal or actually buy a copy is vindication enough for me.

      The brush is one of the least costly, lowest-tech devices known to dentistry. Paradoxically, it is also the most valuable. According to the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, the toothbrush was selected as the number one invention that people could not live without. [Ref 1]

      I will be showing you how simple, often free, tools can add the kind of value to your practice that you never thought possible. This book is one such tool. Full of practical tips and advice, hopefully you will find that like the humble toothbrush its value far outweighs its cost. Whether you are a member of a dental team, thinking of setting up on your own, or already run your own dental practice, Brush will help you and your business to shine.

      What I have written in these pages comes from the heart. I don’t believe in holding back, and this is my authentic self. What I have to say may not be to everyone’s taste, but I’m reminded of how the comedian Jack Dee got his big break. He trained at the Comedy School and was booked for a series of ten gigs after the course. He really tried to engage with the audience but found that the harder he tried the fewer laughs he got. After his eighth gig he told the promoter he’d had enough. The promoter insisted that he complete the last two gigs or he wouldn’t be paid. So with a heavy heart Jack went on stage and delivered the same material with a deadpan face and monotone voice. To his surprise, the audience loved it. The less he tried, the bigger the laughs. He’d found his true authentic self and was not trying to be someone he was not.

      One of the lessons of Jack Dee’s story is the importance of change. The winners are the ones who accept change and embrace it. The pace of change in dentistry today means that techniques are superseded very rapidly, and the skills you possessed at graduation are no longer sufficient to sustain a lifetime in practice. Change brings opportunity, and wow! have we got an opportunity. Our patients want beautiful healthy smiles but over a quarter of them are terrified to visit us—and it’s ALL our fault.

      Why’s that, you ask...?

      Chapter 1: Be a business owner and avoid a heart attack

      Rich people have small TVs and big libraries. Poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

      Zig Ziglar

      The owner, the boss, the big cheese, the head kahuna—is that the pinnacle? My parents taught me to have the freedom to run my life how I wanted, do the hours I wanted and have no-one to moan to if it was not how I expected.

      I LOVE running my own business. I’m as passionate about dentistry as I ever have been but now I run it for the fun and excitement of meeting new people and the day-to-day challenges rather than the money. Don’t get me wrong, I need the money for the school fees and the mortgage, but I would never do what I do just for the financial rewards. As an associate dentist you can make as much money as a principal but go home at 5pm and not think about your job again until 8.30am the next morning. That would bore me, and perhaps you too?

      Life as a practice owner is dynamic and fast paced, especially at the beginning. There is a lot of ego invested. Are you doing it because all your friends have a business and you think it is about time? Explore your reasons for starting a business.

      A common tale within dentistry is that we have the highest level of alcoholism and suicide of all the professions. The literature does not support this. Do we really believe that dentists are more stressed than police officers, lawyers or paramedics? In reality, there is no compelling evidence that dentistry is an exceptional case. [Ref 2] Much of the stress that dentists experience is self-inflicted and a product of acting out their personal ambition. One study speculated that female physicians are more suicide-prone at the beginning of their careers and in midlife, suggesting a problem with the dynamic between being family providers and health care providers. Are female dentists more susceptible to stress-related suicide, as female physicians appear to be?

      One survey [Ref 3] looked at how dentists dealt with stress:

      ● 24% of the dentists did nothing

      ● 32% said they used physical activity

      ● 13% reported they just coped

      ● Only 10% said they took any time off from practice, and only 6% had a hobby

      The American Dental Association (ADA) found over half of all dentists in the US experience pain in parts of their body, most commonly in their lower back and neck. [Ref 4] Not a great indication of the health of dentists.

      I reduced my risk by not drinking alcohol, not wearing ties and getting rid of all sharp objects in the house! In my opinion

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