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Upgrade Your Dental Hygiene Department with a Dental Practice Growth Strategy

By: Debbie Seidel-Bittke, RDH, BS

May 20, 2024

The foundation of a thriving dental hygiene department stands firmly on efficient time management, patient-centered care, and robust systems for practice expansion. Your hygiene department is the mitochondria of every successful dental practice. The dental hygiene department should produce at least thirty percent of the practice production.

As dental professionals with many decades of practice management expertise, and a track record for boosting practice productivity, our commitment extends beyond key performance indicators; we provide services to innovative patient care services that elevate your patient care.

We believe that treating dental patients must include treating the whole body. This is a message that will make your patients sit up, listen, take action, and continue as a patient in your dental office for many years.

One such system with specific patient services that holds tremendous potential in achieving these objectives is the integration of something called the dental practice growth system. The dental hygienist has a perfect opportunity to introduce this system to each patient.

By incorporating this innovative system, the dental hygiene department will boost per-patient production, increase the number of scheduled cosmetic cases, and improve patient loyalty plus. The Dental Practice Growth System offers a unique opportunity to add per-patient production to each dental hygiene patient appointment without additional chair time and will not increase the practice’ overhead.

When seamlessly integrating an annual smile evaluation at the beginning of each preventive care hygiene appointment, the dental practice will more easily maximize revenue with more patients scheduling for cosmetic (adjunctive) dentistry. This increase in per-patient production not only contributes to the financial health of the practice but also enhances the overall patient experience. The result is not only more profits for the practice but patients to keep their dental appointments and remain a patient in your dental practice for many years.

Integrating the dental practice growth system will significantly boost case acceptance. By initiating an annual smile evaluation and including this as part of every new patient appointment, dental clinicians more easily initiate conversations with patients which leads to more scheduled cosmetic procedures.

This proactive approach helps to identify the patient’s smile goals and takes away any negative connotation that dentists are out to take their money on unnecessary treatment. This is also how you take away the, “I only want what my insurance pays for!”

Patients are more likely to spend money on what they want rather than what we tell them they need. The smile evaluation puts your patient in the driver’s seat.

In today’s competitive dental landscape, dental practices must differentiate themselves to attract more new patients and find innovative ways to keep patients returning to their dental office for many years.

Promoting innovative dental hygiene services and ways for patients to leave with a more confident smile appeals to patients seeking a whiter, brighter smile. This innovative smile technology helps patients leave with a more confident smile and in addition, helps the dental practice stand out plus, attract more new patients.

Implementing the dental practice growth system which includes a smile evaluation transforms the dental hygiene department into a profit center within the dental practice. When the clinicians ask patients what their smile goals the dental practice will experience more scheduled cosmetic cases.

The Dental Practice Growth System includes new ways to understand your patients’ smile desires. This is how a dental practice will grow practice profits. The innovative smile technology adds diversification of revenue sources, strengthens the financial outcome of the dental practice. The innovative practice growth system adds resilience to each dental practice and supports the future growth with new patients who want cosmetic dentistry.

Additionally, implementing the Dental Practice Growth System will not only build patient loyalty but alongside this your practice will experience fewer appointment cancellations. Patients are more likely to keep scheduled appointments when they perceive tangible benefits from routinely seeing their dental provider.

The Dental Practice Growth System is a proactive approach that will boost cosmetic cases, it will grow your new patient numbers, reduce appointment cancellations, and foster patient loyalty.

In conclusion, the integration of this comprehensive dental practice growth system holds immense potential for transforming the dental hygiene department into a well-oiled machine and a highly profitable area of each dental practice.

The Dental Practice Growth System will enhance patient care, drive practice growth, and improve the financial performance of each dental practice using this innovative system

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