Last updated on November 12th, 2025 at 08:02 pm Q: How much should a hygienist produce per day? A: Great question! And I’m going to answer it in three parts: what the national average is, what they should actually be producing, and if they are not meeting those numbers, why and how to fix it. Daily hygienist production—National average Quick…
Last updated on November 3rd, 2025 at 11:37 pm Patient reactivation is crucial in order to build a large active patient base and a productive hygiene program. A sizeable percentage of your patients will inevitably fall off their recall schedule at some point—so it’s your job to get them back on! At the MGE New Patient Workshop, we’ve given over…
Last updated on November 3rd, 2025 at 11:42 pm One of the biggest issues I see the front desk staff in a dental practice struggle with is patient outreach. Either they’re not doing enough of it or they have a hard time getting patients on the phone or to respond to their messages. And this could be said about all…
Last updated on November 3rd, 2025 at 07:39 pm In June and July 2020, most dental practices were “slammed” with the wave of patients returning after the COVID shutdown. But beginning in late August, many are now hearing crickets. What happened? Well, a combo of three things: Extra busy offices had little or no time for “outreach,” to chase up…
Last updated on November 3rd, 2025 at 08:40 pm Is your schedule emptying out—with big “holes” in the upcoming days or week? Has your production “crashed?” Or are there too few high production value appointments on the schedule? If so, I’ve written this article to help! And while I’m not covering any specific long-term strategy to create consistent production—we have…
Last updated on November 13th, 2025 at 01:44 pm Less than two years ago I had four days of hygiene per week. And while that may seem OK, we knew we should be doing better. The patients were there. We just weren’t getting enough of them back in for their routine hygiene appointments; which meant we weren’t doing all we…