Should I ask patients about their timeframe for starting implant treatment? Yes, and ask it two ways, because people think about time very differently. First question, do you have a timeframe for when you want to start this treatment? Then the flip side, do you have a deadline you have to be finished by? Those sound similar but they pull different answers out of different people. Some folks plan from the start date forward. Others, like me, lock onto a deadline and work backwards from it. You have no way of knowing which kind of person is in your chair, so [...]