Dental Practice Solutions is an excellent website owned and run by Debra Seidel-Bittke. Her latest blog posting is the title of this entry…..here’s a little about Debra and this blog posting on Case Acceptance is readable with a simple click on BLOG on the website……..looks like a winner for a local study club to me…..get … Read more
From Dental Tribune – Dental Tribune is a large global dental publishing entity – very much worth a visit to www.dental-tribune.com – I personally enjoy their ePaper section…the following article is from DT. Sally McKenzie is CEO of McKenzie Management. by Sally McKenzie I shudder when dentists say to me, “I just don’t know what … Read more
by Debbie Seidel-Bittke The dental hygiene department is one of the biggest parts of every successful dental practice! Many dental practices have dental hygiene departments that do not produce at least 30% of the total office production. Why does this occur? Does the hygiene department have numerous cancellations each day? Does the hygiene department co-diagnose non-surgical … Read more
By Yin Chew Visit his blog There are a myriad of problems associated with practising dentistry today. We’ve been inculcated by consultants NOT to take phone calls and disrupt production, many don’t have email in their practices to assist in quasi virtual consultations and sharing information about long term treatment planning at times can feel … Read more
From Dental Tribune: Dentists are often concerned about how to best protect their patient base when an associate dentist leaves the practice. The owner of a practice must make sure that associates cannot take the patient base or employees with them when they leave. There are two methods of preventing this type of devastation to … Read more
by Debbie Seidel-Bittke Preventive Care Appointments = Lifeline Image by Getty Images via @daylife One system in the dental office, which is often overlooked, is the dental hygiene departments’ recare system. It works best when the office doesn’t need to call patients to come in for a missed or delayed dental hygiene appointment. The dental … Read more
By Eric S. Solomon, DDS, MA Part 1 of a 4-part series Dentistry is going through a transition. As we shall see,the range of dental services and the mix of dental practice employees have changed dramatically during the past half century. We also are experiencing a major shift in the number of dental care providers. … Read more
A full schedule translates into revenues and production only if the patients come in. If a practice loses 1 to 2 appointments/day, either on the hygienist‘s schedule or on the dentist’s schedule, the lost production from this could be anywhere from $100 (minimally) to $900 per day, depending upon the procedure. These are dollar figures … Read more