Practice Management

When it comes to growing your hygiene revenue, there is one common theme many practices miss asking themselves: “Do we need to add more hygiene time?”

In modern dental practices, a well-trained hygienist can have the greatest influence on the strength, depth and continuity of relationships with patients.

Seasonality trends are something most dentists experience, and deciding how your practice will deal with the highs and lows is important to keeping your practice healthy. Here are five tips on how to manage seasonality in your practice.

Ergonomic challenges in the front office rivals can often rival those in the dental operatory! Just as in many dental operatory scenarios, you don’t have to break the bank to ‘ergonomize’ your front office. Here are the top problems I encounter in dental front offices and easy, economical fixes.

Are your current patients talking about you? How can you start getting your current patients to refer more of their friends, family and co-workers?

Planmeca has announced an update for their PlanCAD design software, part of the Planmeca FIT CAD/CAM system.

Learn how Dentimax is helping dentists navigate the ins and outs of EHR incentive claims and the associated meaningful use guidelines.

A study was published in 2010 by Green Peak Partners and Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations2. The study examined 72 executives at public and private companies with revenues from $50 million to $5 billion. The research studied a number of executive interpersonal traits. It was found that the element of self-awareness was a highly significant trait associated with leadership success. In fact, the higher level of self-awareness, the higher level of leadership success.

Let’s take a look at a few ideas of things that could help you make some changes for the better for your dental practice in the last half of 2016.

Practice Mobilizer is a free secure app from Sikka Software that allows dentists to monitor their schedule, communicate with patients and track financial and clinical data using their Android or iOS mobile devices.

There is a ton of information out there for the dental professional to consider when looking to increase their favorite type of patient acquisition (referrals), but, very little of it is actually relevant to the unique nature of dentistry. Here we explore three pervasive myths about referrals and how it applies to today’s dental practices.

Have you ever been invited to a networking event or mixer? One of the greatest challenges that dentists face is making sure that they get effective return on their time investment from choosing to attend a networking event. This article provides a simple and effective measurement system for dentists to use when evaluating whether or not the opportunity is worth the cost.

Almost 100 percent of your patient base/scheduling begins with your phone. Are you fully realizing this opportunity with every phone call? Here are 10 tips to make sure you get the most out of every phone call.

Much has been written about marketing to moms, and for good reason. Moms are a powerful demographic, with many dentists considering women with kids their key target. How well prepared is your practice to reach the Millennial Moms in your community?

Facebook can be a valuable marketing tool­ for dental practices-if you know how to make the best of it. .

Filing insurance claims can be a complex, strenuous and time-consuming task in a dental office. With a variety of companies playing key roles in a practice’s success, timely responses and organized statements are vital to the continued growth of the office. Eaglesoft offers an electronic solution to filing reports, making the process of handling insurance claims quicker, easier and more efficient for every office.

Every patient-practice interaction represents a chance to motivate and educate patients. Unfortunately, many dental offices haven’t written scripts for these conversations, and significant marketing and customer service opportunities are lost as a result.

Stress is so prevalent for practice owners and teams, you may think it’s an unavoidable occupational hazard. In fact, though it can’t be eliminated completely-there will always be “challenging” days at the office-you can radically reduce stress and the negative feelings, fatigue and general dissatisfaction it can cause.

As a private-practice owner, you may not think you can learn much from the companies on Fortune’s 2015 World’s Most Admired Companies list. After all, they’re big – really big. So how can anything done by these super-sized, wildly successful, profitable companies possibly be relevant to a small or mid-sized dental practice in Smallville, USA?

Dental team members are paid to perform daily, correct? So how do you balance the employee engagement with the accountability each day to the numbers and the goals of the practice? Dr. Tarun Agarwal explains.

Canadian dentists continue to increase their use of social media to promote their dental practices, according to results from the DIAC (Dental Industry Association of Canada) Twentieth Annual Future of Dentistry Survey.

Knowing about goodwill and the necessary attributes for the dentist's practice valuation can be critical in a divorce.

Eight strategies that have helped dentists maximize their income and reduce taxes, in addition to other expenses. This in return allows additional monies to be working for them and their families.

It is typical in a dental office that when we hire a new employee at the front desk, they start by answering the phones for the office. Really, when looking at it from the dentist’s perspective, that is the easiest thing to start with, right? That definitely seems to make sense, but frankly, that is one of the worst things you can do for your office with a new employee.

Dentists require a team of staff members to serve the needs of the patient. When everyone is busy, working together, there is room for conflict to arise.

Based on his extensive experience with dentists over the past 30 years, Dr. Roger P. Levin has authored a new book entitled The 31 Biggest Mistakes Dentists Make. His premise is simple. As he says in the introduction, “We can learn from our mistakes. But isn’t it better to learn from other people’s mistakes?”

Incorporating videos into your dental practice’s website, social media and online presence can bring big returns.

Search engine optimization is more important than ever. Here are 6 ways to make sure your site stands out.

The new database is designed to save dentists time and money when dealing with insurance companies.

External marketing may work for some dental practices, but oftentimes the ROI isn't worth the effort. See how internal marketing can be a lot more effective - and much less expensive.