North Texas Dentistry Volume 8 Issue 5 2018 ISSUE 5 DE | Page 8

– Dr. Sean Ma
General Dentist
Austin, Texas
and buyers alike. The site is now a valuable tool for dentists who
want to save on products like impression materials, equipment
including CBCT and pano systems, and services such as phone
and internet. It has been immensely successful, because it
allows those who embrace the buying network concept to
achieve substantial savings.”
A few examples of companies that offer discounts to Nifty
Thrifty members are Mango Voice and Apex Payment Solutions.
Mango Voice is a cloud based VoIP system that uses the internet
to power your phone service. The company's affiliation with
Nifty Thrifty Dentists gives group members the potential to
slash their phone bill in half, purchase phone equipment at a
discount, and add time-saving features that help offices run bet-
ter. Apex Payment Solutions is a merchant services company
that offers an exclusive discount to the Nifty Thrifty community
in credit card processing. In addition, Apex has an online pay-
ment portal that allows patients to pay their bills online.
In addition to the Nifty Thrifty Dentists blog that can be
accessed through the website, Dr. Vo hosts a dental podcast,
which has been another incubator for his overhead-lowering
innovations.
“We certainly want to take advantage of the leveraging power
in buying, but it’s also enormously beneficial to leverage the
power of community. The goal of the website is to provide
money saving tips, strategies, and resources to dentists, and
those are usually born out of shared experiences. On my pod-
cast, I have interviewed many dental professionals, and one uni-
versal issue kept coming up in our discussions. It seems that
like us, other dentists were also wishing for a better way to more
efficiently organize and track supply inventory. Having a team
member walk around the office with a clipboard, inventory sup-
plies, and then make calls to various companies to compare
prices and order the items you need wastes a lot of time. Run-
ning out of essential items occasionally created problems and
extra costs for expedited shipping. I developed the app Nifty
Thrifty Inventory to allow dentists to track and manage inven-
tory in real time.”
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Since its launch, Nifty Thrifty Inventory has proven to be an
invaluable tool because it lets dental practices immediately gain
full control over their entire inventory. It allows you to set, mon-
itor and manage supply budgets all in one place with full cost vis-
ibility, access price comparisons, submit multi-distributor orders
with the click of a button, and even offers next-order suggestions.
Dr. Vo regularly speaks to groups about ways to lower overhead
and offers a program called Overhead Overhaul for practices
that could benefit from a thorough assessment and revamping
of their approach to practice expenditures.
Dr. Vo believes that his experience as a dental professional com-
bined with his love of technology and novel solutions puts him
in a unique position to address the problems commonly faced
in the dental community. “I understand the challenges that den-
tists face, because I face them too in the day-to-day operation
of my practice. I invite other dentists to reach out to me on
“I understand the challenges that
dentists face, because I face them too in
the day-to-day operation of my practice.”
– Dr. Glenn Vo
Dr. Vo hosts a dental podcast which
has been another incubator for his
overhead-lowering innovations.
“What I love about Nifty Thrifty Dentists is
the close knit community that Dr. Glenn Vo
has created. We all share money-saving
tips, but we share our mistakes as well.
I have saved thousands upon thousands
of dollars just from the advice I received.”