title: The second 'D.D.S.' degree: a formula for practice success.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Planning for success is critical in clinical dentistry and in the management of a dental practice. Dentists need to apply basic business principles to planning their dental careers as they develop a vision, deliver quality products and services, and surpass patients,' staff members' and their own expectations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By applying general business management principles, dental practices can develop a logical, systematic approach to the management of a professional services business. For many dental professionals, these concepts were not learned in an undergraduate dental educational program and need to be mastered after professional school.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ideally, each dentist will establish a philosophical course that provides direction to the practice of dentistry. For a private dental practitioner, part of his or her goal is to create a tangible, transferable asset and a solid business plan that can benefit the practitioner in the present, as well as in the future practice transition.
authors.affiliation: Newport Coast Oral Facial Institute, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA. jmpaquette@ncofi.org
authors.forename: Jacinthe M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Paquette
authors.forename: Cherilyn G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Sheets
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D003815:Dentists; D004497:Education, Dental; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009042:Motivation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010685:Philosophy, Dental; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D011331:Private Practice; D011787:Quality of Health Care