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This paper describes how a dentist can use a new management tool, a computerized dental practice management game, to plan his or her own practice. After reviewing factors to be considered in planning a dental practice, we briefly describe the game with special emphasis on what it can and cannot do. After identifying the information required to make such an exercise useful in planning a specific practice, the paper gives an example that shows how the game can be so used.
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Reisman, A., Emmons, H., Morito, S. et al. Planning a dental practice with a management game. J Med Syst 2, 71–83 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02225584
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