July 30, 2013
Time management is one stressor no matter what your occupation is. You can be a stay-at-home mom: a domestic engineer, and yet managing your time during the day is one thing we all need to manage. Then, to make matters more challenging, you work in a dental office and you need to complete patient services Read More
July 24, 2013
Let’s face it, working in a dental office and managing to stay on time for your patients can be a stressful event! The dental office team members need to take charge and manage the daily schedule. How can your dental team take charge and reduce the potential threat of stress of “Staying on Time”? The Read More
July 16, 2013
Dentistry has experienced many changes these past ten years. The economy is a lot different and the way we will deliver our treatment recommendations to our patients also needs to change today. The dental hygienist has a big influence on how and when patients will accept treatment. In addition, the entire dental team must rely Read More
July 9, 2013
I get excited when a dental office contacts me to be their Dental Practice Management Consultant and recently I had a few offices contact me who were located outside of the United States. Their reason to call was to have a US Dental Practice Management Consultant implement preventive services for their practice and bring preventive Read More
July 2, 2013
Consumer experts have studied our buying trends and I believe that if we look at the process of how people buy we will see some similarities how this relates to your patients scheduling and paying for your services. First, let me be straight forward and I want to be clear that I am not asking Read More
June 18, 2013
You most likely chose to be a dentist because it is supposed to give you a chance to live a great life! It should be able to give you a lot of freedom. Maybe your goal was to work three or four days a week. I imagine that you probably expected to have a bank Read More
June 10, 2013
With every year that passes, as a dental practice management consultant, I see more and more dentists enrolling in clinical aesthetic courses. When I return to their office I see the new technology they have spent thousands of dollars on this past year. It is exciting to Read More
June 3, 2013
For the past 3 years dentists have been calling my office to ask “Debbie, how can I stop all these last minute cancellations?!” and “Debbie, how can I stop the bleeding of my hygiene schedule? Look at all these holes in the schedule!” The calls from more dentists continue and I continue to create more Read More
May 28, 2013
What can you say about your schedule today? We are about half way through another year so if you have something you are not satisfied with let’s do something about this challenge. I promise you are not alone! In a recent survey we took, the most common complaint from dental offices was about cancellations and Read More
May 21, 2013
Is your dental hygiene department the second highest profit center of your dental practice? What do profitable hygiene departments have in place that will allow them to work like a well-oiled machine and be their most profitable? Why does one hygiene department create more treatment plan success from their dental hygiene department than many others? Read More