ADA Offers Book to Help Dentists Communicate with Patients, Staff

Sept. 30, 2013
The American Dental Association (ADA) is offering dentists the opportunity to pen perfect professional prose using customizable letters in the new book “The ADA Practical Guide to Dental Letters: Write, Blog and Email Your Way to Success.”

The American Dental Association (ADA) is offering dentists the opportunity to pen perfect professional prose using customizable letters in the new book “The ADA Practical Guide to Dental Letters: Write, Blog and Email Your Way to Success.” The book is a compilation of sample writings that reflect the many ways in which people communicate via traditional letters, news releases, blog, Facebook and Twitter posts and text messages.

The book includes:

  • Letters geared to patients such as dental health education materials, handouts, welcome forms and general patient forms
  • Administrative letters for staff and vendors
  • Letters geared to marketing and promoting the dental practice

Each one-page letter is written in simple language and is accompanied by instructions on how to adapt the letter for a variety of uses. The book comes with a CD-ROM of letters in Microsoft Word format for easy personalization. The book is $59.95 for ADA members and $89.95 retail.

To purchase “The ADA Practical Guide to Dental Letters: Write, Blog and Email Your Way to Success,” please visit adacatalog.org or call the ADA Member Service Center at (800) 947-4746.

For more information about the ADA, visit ada.org. For more information on oral health, including prevention, care and treatment of dental disease, visit the ADA’s consumer website, www.MouthHealthy.org.