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04/28/2026

Why do airlines chain their checklists to a table? ✈️ A short, surprising look into cockpit culture, safety habits, and how chair-side cognitive aids can shape the behavior in dental practices. Read the full post: https://wix.to/PuThBLU Safety

In my former airline's simulator briefing rooms (where we prepared to conduct mock drills), we kept paper Quick Reference Checklists available for pilots to reference before mock emergency drills. We used the checklists as our briefing tools for each mock drill we planned to conduct during the simul...

04/18/2026

New study: up to 65% of general dentists report they don’t feel competent managing patient medical emergencies—things like asthmatic shock, cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, severe hypoglycaemia and more. A simple, proven chair-side cognitive aid could change that. Read the quick summary and what practices can do to improve preparedness: https://wix.to/fIz6wmR

In a study of general dentists (Note 1), 45% to 64.9% reported they did not feel sufficiently competent to deal with medical emergency situations such as: • Asthmatic shock (64.9%) • Angina pectoris (62.7%) • Cardiac arrest (57.0%) • Hypoglycaemic/hyperglycaemic episodes (56.6%) • Epilepti...

07/28/2025

Are you prepared for a dental emergency? Discover the steps to ensure you don’t go from routine to ruin! Learn more in our latest blog post: https://wix.to/cCvnFfR

About once every four years (on average) for every dentist, a serious patient emergency happens. For far too many dentists, that patient emergency takes them from ROUTINE-TO-RUIN. Here's how to prevent that...

12/30/2023

The best FREE dental career-saving tool of 2024

A FREE tool these five dentists wish they'd had on their "worst day ever." Dentist "A" took 40 minutes to call 911 after his patient became unresponsive. About 50 minutes into the procedure, the patient’s oxygen saturation dropped to 78%, dropping further to 53% about eight minutes later. No other...

11/25/2023

Nine MUST-HAVE free resources for dental offices

Nine FREE reources every dentist needs to prepare for a medical emergency in their practice.

10/12/2023

The magic career-saving power of conducting mock emergency drills

Dr. Smith had no idea when the case began, that when it was over, his career would be in ruins, and he would be the subject of a criminal investigation by the local law enforcement. By every measure, Dr. Smith (name changed to protect his privacy) had crafted a successful career in dentistry. He was...

10/07/2023

4 tools (3 are free) to help you avoid a license suspension.
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Here are 4 tools (3 of them FREE) to help you ensure your license never gets suspended. Let's look at this tragic event and see how these tools might have helped prevent the death of this patient. In August 2022, a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease visited the dentist to have three....

09/22/2023

The best way to prepare for a patient emergency in your office.

Medical emergencies do NOT make appointments. They. Don't. Care. ...if you and your dental team are ready for them. How can you be sure you're dental practice is ready for the inevitable patient emergencies in your office? The single most important thing you can do to prepare for a patient's medical...

08/22/2023

The BEST way to develop and use an Emergency Response Plan

Patient emergencies occur, according to the ADA, in dental offices about 3000 times per year. It is not a question of if an emergency will occur, it is a question of when. Dental office emergencies are inevitable. Every dental office will, at the moment of truth, be either READY or NOT READY for the...

08/18/2023

Check out this blog post on being prepared for your patients' medical emergencies!

The single most important thing you can do to be prepared for a patient's medical emergency in your operatory (and protect your practice from a career-ending mistake) is ... ...conducting mock medical emergency drills. If you want to be "emergency ready" to protect your patients and your career, the...

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