How to Use Your Brand to Inspire Your Dental Office Design

Your brand is more than your logo – it’s how you do business. It’s what you value. It’s who you are as a person, as a professional, and as an organization. And, when your brand inspires your dental office design, all of that should be apparent in every detail, giving patients an insight into you…

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How to Design a Dental Office to Last 10 Years

There is one fashion staple that stands alone as a truly timeless classic. It’s as in-vogue now as it was when debuted in the 1920s: The Little Black Dress. Designed by Coco Chanel and Jean Patou to be versatile and long-lasting, affordable, and accessible to the widest possible market, the LBD has stood the test…

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Does Your Dental Office Design Communicate the Quality of Your Services?

You know you do good work, but do your patients? Aside from collecting referrals from friends and family, potential patients actually have very little information to use when it comes to choosing a new dental provider. Selections are often made around simple factors, such as convenience of location (close proximity to residence or work), right timing…

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5 Design Ideas for a Kid-Tested, Mother-Approved Pediatric Dentist Office

Cereal companies know that while kids are easy to please (just add sugar and artificial colors), their mothers are the real decision-makers. You have to appeal to the one, but cater to the other. When planning a pediatric dentist office redesign, the same theory applies. Today’s pediatric dental offices balance what moms like and what…

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The Importance of Furniture Selection in Medical Offices

A common complaint from patients entering a medical office is that it feels so sterile, like a hospital. As a medical or dental office, you want your patients to feel comfortable and welcomed, and you can easily achieve that through your office design and furniture selection. Typically, traditional medical office furniture is uninspiring, leaving the…

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You Can’t Use What You Can’t Reach – Flaws in Your Dental Office Design

The average undergraduate dental program lasts 4 short years. During this time period, an astounding array of topics are introduced and memorized. Understandably, the studying of the biomedical sciences is given top priority. After all, without a working knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry, histology, microbiology, pharmacology and so on, a new practitioner wouldn’t be able to…

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3 Sterilization Area Design Hacks to Save You Time

The areas in many dental offices that consume the most time are the sterilization areas, and more labor hours are lost here than actually need to be. Below are 5 sterilization area design hacks to save you time in your dental office. 1. If you have more than one station for sterilization, it’s time to…

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Case Study: Dental Smiles of West Loop and Dr. Ankita Shah

The Challenge It’s almost perfect, but… We’ve heard it many times, spoken by practitioners who have found a space with everything on their checklist – with the exception of one or two minor details. What is one to do in such a situation? Though admittedly biased, we recommend consulting a design-build professional before ruling anything out. That’s…

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3 Questions to Lay the Right Foundation for Your Dental Office Design

If you’re like most practitioners, you have one primary goal when opening a new practice: A successful launch – on time and on budget. While this is a worthy goal, planning for what happens after the doors open is just as, if not more, important as the initial launch. Whether you’re opening your first practice,…

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Case Study: Elements Dental Studio and Dr. Meira Berman

The Challenge Like many newly licensed practitioners, Dr. Meira Berman approached opening her first practice with some trepidation. Understandably, many doctors – fresh out of school – have very little knowledge of what’s required for “setting up shop.” The numerous details of doing business can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned of entrepreneurs. Trusting…

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