Editor’s Note: This is part two of our three-part monthly series on adapting your dental practice for the AI-driven future of search. This series is written by the team at My Social Practice. In Part 1, we explored how AI is fundamentally reshaping search behavior. Part 2 showed you how AI search engines generate answers instead of traditional link lists. Now comes the critical piece: understanding AI search optimization is one thing, but actually getting AI to cite your practice is something else entirely.

Does smiling make us happy, or do we smile because we are happy? How much can our facial expressions influence our psychological health? These are questions scientists have asked for hundreds of years.

Editor’s Note: This is part two of our three-part monthly series on adapting your dental practice for the AI-driven future of search. This series is written by the team at My Social Practice. Last month, we talked about how your patients are bypassing Google entirely and asking ChatGPT about their dental problems. Well, it doesn’t end there: even when they use Google, the game has changed completely.

A confident smile has the power to change lives. It can open doors, create new opportunities, and improve mental well-being.

In the tapestry of human expression, no gesture is quite as powerful, or as revealing, as the smile. Yet, smiles were notably absent in historic oil paintings. Today's camera-ready, gleaming-toothed, confident smiles result from a centuries-long transformation driven by artistic styles, social expectations and significant developments in photography and dental care.

Editor’s Note: This blog was written by the team at My Social Practice. It’s Part 1 of 3 of a deep-dive into what AI means for your dental marketing (and what to do about it).

The debate over fluoride in drinking water has intensified with Utah’s House Bill 81 (HB 81), which prohibits the addition of fluoride to public water systems. This makes Utah the first state in the US to ban fluoridated public water. The ban took effect May 7, 2025.1

A quality matrix system is necessary for a large percentage of restorative cases, yet many fail to deliver elements clinicians need for the quality of work they want to provide. In creating the Halo™ sectional matrix system, developers identified areas where many of these systems are lacking and rectified them in ways dentists appreciate.

Dentists often encounter patients suffering from caries in the posterior region of the mouth, a more challenging area for some patients to keep clean due to its location.

Summer means sun-soaked celebrations, impromptu getaways, and the kind of moments you’ll remember forever. They’ll be immortalized on Instagram, in photo albums, and framed on the fridge.