Comments on: The 12-Step Plan to Boost Your Dental Practice’s Efficiency

By: Newton Invisalign

Newton Invisalign — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:41:29 +0000

I would suggest that monetary incentives also boost efficiency, provided that they are based on clearly defined metrics that have been selected with efficiency in mind.
Especially in bigger offices where the owner is also the key dentist, the owner knows little of the details of what other employees are doing. The dentist is simply busy in the operatory most of the time.
Incentives provide the unseen staff with a self-monitoring mindset toward achieving the targets for the metrics.

By: Swampscott dentist

Swampscott dentist — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:04:40 +0000

Nice, focused suggestion. May I add a 13th item? Checklists after meeting! It just so often seems that
after a seemingly productive meeting, the principal leaves relieved, the staff motivated, and yet in a
few weeks there is no memory of the meeting! And if there is, there less often than tha is any
accountability made official – save for the memory itself!

Checklists have been shown to be very powerful in aviation safety, and now are increasingly adopted in medicine.
Whereas the motivations there are safety, they clearly embedd accountability – “You should have known and acted”
can be established if a checklist has been given to the task executor.

More information about the power of checklists is here:

http://webmm.ahrq.gov/perspective.aspx?perspectiveID=92

Anyway, just by way of suggesting an already fine post.

By: Marketing for Dental Specialists

Marketing for Dental Specialists — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:51:41 +0000

There are always ways you can streamline the efficiency of your practice and these are certainly some great ways.

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