On May 22nd I received an e-mail from CorrLinks (photo below) and assumed it was another e-mail from Cherie, but it wasn’t. It was an automated e-mail from CorrLinks informing me that Cherie no longer had access to the system. A few months before, Cherie told me she was scheduled to…
“What I do is all about teaching, connecting with others and building long term relationships. I love it.” Trisha Cloutier, CDA, RDH, BS, MA Trisha’s clinical background Mark: Let’s start with an overview of your clinical experience before we get into your move to teaching and then to sales. Trisha: Throughout my clinical experience…
Kona Adapter Iso-OR I recently created a Kona Adapter to attach Zyris / Isolite mouthpieces directly to surgical tubing (1/4″ ID). The DryShield version is coming soon. Note: This version does not replace the current Kona Adapter Kits I sell that attach the mouthpieces to the standard HVE valve. When dentists work in the…
Dr. Tyler Williams Mark Frias, RDH This is my appearance on The Practice X-Factor podcast with Dr. Tyler Williams. Episode #18 – Your Priceless Assistant with Mark Frias RDH The topics we touch on: Why I quit clinical hygiene Difficulty of finding hygienists Demand for the Kona Adapter during the pandemic Kona Adapter…
“I’ve been working on an exit plan for several years. I’d always loved clinical practice, but I knew that I couldn’t do it forever.” Linda M. Douglas, BSc, RDH Highlights from the interview Why did you quit clinical hygiene? What are you doing now? What is your advice to hygienists wanting to leave the…
You can read Part 1 of this story here. Part 2 will make more sense if you read Part 1 first! It was time to enroll in a copywriting course. If I wanted to take this plunge into the copywriting world seriously, I would need to complete a real deal, no playing around, copywriting course. …
Tom Segura: I know someone with a prominent dead tooth and you just want to be like. Why do you have a car? You should fix this first! Joe Rogan: Yeah, yeah. Dead teeth are weird, right? It’s like…there’s something about it that signals to you that there’s something wrong with that person. …
One of the books I’m currently reading is Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery written in 1901. I read two passages in the book that discuss his intriguing views on the toothbrush. As a dental hygienist, I found the passages quite interesting and just needed to share. Below are the two passages prefaced…
Like most teenage boys who grew up in the 1980’s, I wanted to be muscular and shredded. My go to example? Sylvester Stallone in the 1985 movie Rocky IV. I challenge you to watch those training montages and not want to lift weights! But achieving that goal would have required me to do two things:…
This is a piece I wrote for my cycling club…The Narragansett Bay Wheelmen (NBW) The 2019-2020 winter season was pretty mild. How mild? My snowblower never came out of the shed. Not once. And more importantly, I was able to get in way more NBW winter rides than I usually do. I remember thinking…
I initially shared this post on the Facebook Group “Trapped in an Op”, but wanted to share it here too. On May 15th, 2020, I finally quit my full time clinical job. I worked there for 12 years. The pay was excellent ($48.20 per hour). The benefits were excellent (health insurance, 4 weeks paid time…
When I was a young lad at 18 years old, I started my first real job—an auto mechanic at a Ford dealership in New Bedford, Massachusetts. On the morning of my first day, the service manager told me, “You’ll be working along side Harry for two weeks. He’s our most experienced mechanic”. I looked…
The other day, out of curiosity, I googled “Do dental sealants save money long term?”. I wanted to see what my fellow dental folks had to say about the topic. I scanned the search results and found the following excerpts from two dental office websites, a dental insurance company website and an oral hygiene product…
Based on a true story The Midas mechanic walked into the waiting area, looked at me and called out my name. With that familiar look on his face, he said, “I have a few things to show you”. He laid out his findings. My battery terminals were corroded and needed cleaning. The main belt had…
This is another example of using two HVE sources to reduce aerosols. In this case, it’s the DryShield mouthpiece (connected to the Kona Adapter DS) and a Nu-Bird Suction Mirror. It’s obviously impossible to completely eliminate aerosols in the dental environment, but I think it’s possible to reduce them significantly. And in my option, using…