The following is a guest post by Debbie Seidel-Bittke, RDH, BS. If you are interested in guest posting for Dental Heroes, please sign up here. You are driving on a nice vacation and need gas. You stop at a gas station and go inside to buy some snacks while you gas is being pumped. How [...]
Where does your practice production stand this time of the year? How are you utilizing the team to assess and connect with the practices’ patients? Many dental practices are still feeling the economic crunch but there is still time to capture six figures..
A full schedule translates into revenues and production only if the patients come in. If a practice loses 1 to 2 appointments/day, either on the hygienist’s schedule or on the dentist’s schedule, the lost production from this could be…
My how times change quickly in dentistry! I believe with technology and new products we have grow 100 years in the past 10. Years ago the dental hygiene department was thought of as a loss leader…
What an exciting time we live in! We are living in a time where we are discovering new technologies. We have social media marketing strategies, everyone has a website and we are just a Google search away from one another…
When you see the words “the business of dental hygiene” what do you imagine? Perhaps you see a treadmill where high volume and financial reward are the main focus of the dental hygiene department? Or do you see a hygiene department where quality patient care…
Each day is a fast, frenetic ride on the practice racetrack. As hygienists we say “Treadmill”. Daily stresses morph into emergencies. You and the team dash from one procedure, patient, or task to the next and each are more critical than the last. At the end of the day you promise yourself you’re going to make changes and try to get things under control…
As a dental consultant/coach, I have the opportunity to talk with dental practice owners every day. I also review and analyze dental practices on a weekly basis using my extensive dental knowledge to educate practitioners on how they can improve their practice bottom line…
Most businesses that don’t have a plan fail to become successful. Don’t enter into a new decade blindly…make sure you have a plan. Have you ever heard the saying “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”? Well this holds true for your dental business as well. You can not start a business and [...]