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…