Dental Consultants Back Pain Tips
A survey of several dental professionals offered the following suggestions for dealing with back pain: Dental loupes are the magnifying glasses that dentists wear to enlarge everything that they see…
Dental Consultant Tip: Talking To Patients
Do you ever ask your patients, “Any questions?” If you do so often enough, you’ll lose a lot of income. Let me explain. Dentists often tell patients they need to…
Dental Practice Consulting: “Small” Stats
Depending on the weak areas in a practice, you want the responsible employee to track and report on a daily or weekly basis certain “small” stats. For example, if you…
Dental Consultant: Major Stat Recommendations
Other than P & L numbers, key stats to monitor are: Number of days worked Production per day Production Collection NPs Collection percentage Open hours in hygiene Hygiene hours worked Number…
Dental Consultant Practice Purchase Tip
Verify you have an accurate active patient count. Often the count is greatly inflated. This is less of an issue than in the past due to practice management software. If…
Dental Consultant Tips: Staff Meeting
Not knowing how to run an effective staff meeting can have some negative consequences in the overall health of your dental practice. We’ve found that many offices don’t have meetings…
Dental Consultant Tip: Clocking In and Out
1. Whether an employee clocks in or not they must be paid for all hours actually worked. 2. You can set office policy that any time worked by an employee…
Dental Consultant Tip: Your Best New Patients
How your staff approaches referrals can become second nature by asking patients their opinion, and if it’s positive, then asking for that all-important new patient referral. Dental consultants universally agree…
Dental Consultants Simple Bonus System
1. Set either a monthly or quarterly goal. 2. The goal is based on what is commensurate with 25% or less payroll percentage. Example: Say your payroll is normally around…
Dental Consultant Marketing Tips
1. Testing: Much of marketing involves testing, which is a fancy word for trial and error. Try different marketing actions to see what produces the best ROI. What will work…