Hygienists play a huge role in the value and growth of a dental practice. Some very smart people have said that, ultimately, a dental practice is only as valuable as its hygiene department—and they wouldn’t be wrong. In fact, a properly run hygiene department should produce at least 30% of the total revenue of the practice. Your hygiene department is…
Whether you like it, or not, your dental practice is a business. And like with any business, it’s accompanied by many if not all the aspects inherent in managing an organization: human resources, bills, logistics, budgets, marketing, and so on. And with management on the mind, if I had to pick a function that’s most often ignored—or given too little…
How knowledgeable are your staff when it comes to specific procedures of your practice? For that matter, while your staff may not have a viewpoint that a doctorate in dentistry confers, couldn’t they at least have enough information about dental problems and their applicable treatments to adequately communicate their importance? To that end, I want to share a successful action…
When we use the term “new patient conversion,” what are we talking about? Simple: We’re referring to the process of turning an incoming call into a new patient that actually shows up into the office. Now, with this in mind, we could also measure the performance of this area in your practice or the “conversion rate.” E.g. you get 100…
“How can I get my staff to take more responsibility?” I’ve been asked this question a lot, and I mean a real lot, over my career. It might be asked in those exact words or in some variation with relation to a specific position, e.g. “How can I get my hygienist to help me more with case acceptance?” or “How…
This week’s blog post comes from MGE client, seminar speaker and Power Program graduate, Dr. Bruce Smoler. Using the practice management information from the MGE Program, Dr. Smoler has tripled his production and collections, and transformed his practice into a tremendously efficient fee-for-service office. The Problem: Phone calls were coming in and we were not converting these calls as well…
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