In speaking to many dentists, it has become apparent that they are worried about the future of dentistry. Many are stressed out, asking questions like: Will corporate dentistry take over? I’m coming into practice with hundreds of thousands of dollars of school and practice debt—what should I do? I can’t seem to fill my schedule—what can I do? I can’t…
What is an ideal schedule? Is it being fully booked out for a period of days, weeks or months? (yikes). Not really. Ideally, your schedule would feature productive appointments accompanied by opportunities to present treatment (thereby creating more productive appointments)! Time to do both of those two things is more important than filling up a chair just for the sake…
In a dental practice, there’s a function that is almost always undervalued or neglected. Lack of this function can throw a pretty large wrench into the mix despite superior clinical, management, marketing and communication skills. The function I’m referring to is: Quality Control. And by this I don’t just mean clinical quality control. I trust that you already maintain tight…
Q. I would like to start measuring individual employee productivity by using statistics. Do you have any suggestions on which stats to assign to the various jobs in the office? Good question. And I want to start my answer with a disclaimer: there’s quite a bit to know about statistic management! On the MGE Power Program a client might spend…
As you begin to get busier, you will see that there is only so much that you, the doctor, can PHYSICALLY do. At lower levels of production, you may end up wearing a lot of “hats” other than just “doctor.” As you grow, these other hats become more and more difficult to do from a time standpoint. When your practice…
What’s the REAL value of a hygiene department? I think a lot of dentists underestimate the value of hygiene—because they think it’s just the value of what the hygienist produces. $120 for a cleaning, or whatever the rate is, isn’t highly profitable compared to the doctor’s production. This leads some doctors to think it’s not cost-effective to build a big…
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