Australasian Dentist Magazine Nov Dec 2021

Category AustrAlAsiAn Dentist 125 Melbourne Clair Whitehead 0421 338 801 • clair@whiteheadlegal.com.au Sydney Julian Whitehead 0411 406 151 • julian@whiteheadlegal.com.au Starting up a practice , acquiring a practice or selling your practice ? Need ongoing legal advice for your practice on employees or expansion ? Make sure your lawyer has Dental Law Intellectual Property . Whitehead Legal focuses almost exclusively on dental surgeons and dental specialists . We understand the process and the critical commercial and operational issues for dentists . Our specialisation , our exclusivity , our ever-growing dental knowledge bank , our dental industry history , our continued collaboration and trust within the dental industry are the fundamentals of our key Dental Law IP . Something you didn’t know! You can do more than you think you can! To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates By Dr Michael Ryan B. ec, B. Jp, MBA, DBA re ailing Mike Ryan the more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know there is something you have done your whole dental career, without realizing it. You do it already everyday with almost every patient without realizing it and some dentists have legally been able to do it since the 1930’s! each year dentists write over 1.1 million scripts and send that revenue and patients out of their practice. Over the years you may have read articles in this publication – Yes, you can prescribe and dispense – and much more Guess what! the majority of dentist we chat to and those that call us still do not realize that every registered dentist in Australia can indeed prescribe and dispense. the legislation is clear and it is completely legal for a dentist to prescribe and dispense the appropriate medication to a patient under their care. Just check out the therapeutic Guidelines book (one with the clown on it, see page 12 it outlines all the acts in each state and territory and that nationally dentists can prescribe and dispense), great little book: http:// www.tg.org.au/index.php?sectionid=130, topics include: Principles of diagnosis and prescribing; Dental prescriptions and prescription-writing; Getting to know your dental drugs; Dental caries, Periodontal disease, Acute odontogenic and salivary gland infections, Oral mucosal disease, Orofacial pain and much more. Prescribing and dispensing right in your own practice is easy to do. Hundreds of practices do it every day and follow some simple steps to get it right without any fuss download our free resources and guides just go to www.acumen.dental We are pleased to answer any questions and share what we have learnt by doing it in our practice for over two decades. there is no risk if you follow the simple guidelines and heaps of just upside. Apart from the average practice who does this earning around at least an extra $10,000 per dentist per year it is great for you and your patient. You get to be more in control of the medication regime of a patient under your care with better compliance and few calls after hours. the patient gets a convenient service without another trip to another practitioner in their already busy lives. Just use item number 927 and away you go! it’s safe when done properly, we strongly encourage you and your teams to put in place the right protocols and safety measures but once that is done you have an enhanced service and a new revenue stream, we all need in our practices these days. something else you may not have known is that our YuM Bubblegum topical standard and Forte Gel gets more viscous the colder it gets – really and as it has essentially a water “base” which is our proprietary formula it is really safe and our new improved formula a combination of Yum standard is a solid 15% lidocaine in our gel base and Yum Forte – lignocaine 15%, Prilocaine 10%, tetracaine 4% and Phenylephrine 2% works fast, tastes great and reduces bleeding. A similar to the gel promoted by Dr Michael Ditolla in his latest lectures and it is right here in Australia through www. acumen.dental – join online and try it today and get the Free Dental Dispensing resources Our family practice has been working with a compounding pharmacy team for years to perfect the YuM topical and we are pleased to share it with you and your team. if you have any questions about any of the topics covered, please go to our web site www.acumen.dental and send us a note, we’d love to share what we have learnt. Get started today! Best prices, best range and best service from our family practice to yours. u Simply join and order at www.acumen.dental to get started. Dr Mike Ryan (DBA) – Acumen Dental