Author: Mike Montgomery

Lesavoy Pediatric Dentistry: A Vision Realized, Challenges Overcome, and Smiles Preserved Dr. Bret Lesavoy, a fourth-generation “Allentonian”, is excited to be back in the Lehigh Valley. His deep roots in the community, influenced by his grandfather, Dr. Stanley Stein, Chief of Pediatrics at St. Luke’s Hospital for 32 years, motivated him to pursue a career…

Clear Dermatology: Providing Berks County with a clear choice for healthy skin. Dr. Jennifer L. Mueller, MD FAAD, a board-certified dermatologist with 17 years of experience, navigated her medical journey from California to Berks County. A distinguished graduate of Virginia Tech and Eastern Virginia Medical School, she excelled in dermatology at Drexel University. Dr. Mueller…

Dental labs have changed significantly over the years as new technology and tools have been developed. Work that once needed to be done in outside dedicated labs can now be safely, efficiently, and cost effectively completed in-house. The availability of the right tools, along with the benefits of bringing this work in-house, has increased the…

Positive patient experience and reviews have never been more important to medical practices than they are today. In addition to ensuring that patients receive top-quality care, physicians and medical practices must also look for ways to deliver patient experiences that result in positive reviews on standardized surveys. One area that can undermine an otherwise positive…

Designing a practice space for your veterinary clinic means thinking through the needs of both your patients and their owners and crafting an environment that will work for them and for your staff.  If you are considering opening a new veterinary clinic or updating your current practice, we have a few tips to keep in…

While two is greater than one, it isn’t always better. As new dental offices are being built, designers and dentists are challenging the conventional wisdom on operatory design. Specifically, we are seeing increasing use in the United States of single entry care spaces, a method of managing clinical space that has long been the more…

Whether you are building a new medical office or upgrading existing facilities, it is important to take time to assess how your patients feel about the space and to determine ways in which it can be made more inviting to more people. This is especially true as medical systems become more focused on measuring patient…

2020 was a difficult year for most Americans and introduced phrases that we would have loved to have avoided. Masking and social distancing are the norm for now and have made it necessary for many businesses to modify the way in which they operate. For others, the pandemic simply proved to be the impetus to…

The Covid -19 pandemic that began last year has had a profound impact on how many businesses now function. Even after we have better control of the virus and its impacts are not being so directly felt, there will be long-term changes to how businesses operate. For dental and orthodontic practices, there are several takeaways…

For medical and dental professionals ready to build a new practice, the decision of where to locate must be addressed early in the process. While greenfield construction makes sense in some instances, renovations and adaptive reuse are providing medical and dental practices with access to prime real estate. Determining if adaptive reuse is the right…