Avoid Holes in Your Hygiene Schedule with these Simple Tips
Hygiene appointments are the foundation of most general dental practices, so it is vital that you keep your schedule full and have plans in place for what to do when you have a last minute-cancellation or worse—a no show. Instead of leaving your hygiene schedule up to...
3 Easy Tips for Helping Young Patients with Dental Anxiety
We’ve revamped a previously published article to give you some additional information on how to help pediatric patients with dental anxiety—and perhaps even get them to view their dental appointments as a positive experience. Nod your head if you just loved going to...
Why Fluoride Varnish—not gel or foam—is best for your patients
How many of you think your patients would be happier with less tooth sensitivity and a slowing of tooth decay? Are you nodding? I thought you might be. For a long time fluoride foams and gels were the top choice for dentists to help protect their patients’ teeth. But...
3 Pillars for Attracting New Patients Online
8 out of 10 people regularly conduct local searches online. Are you part of that majority? I’d bet that like most people, when you have a problem or are looking for something you pull up a search engine. And guess what—potential patients are, too. They’re looking for...
How to increase profit with one simple suggestion
Besides the obvious healthy teeth and mouth, what is the one thing pretty much all your patients would like to have? A bright, shiny white smile. The whiter the better is pretty much the norm nowadays. But the more important question is this: are you catering to this...
Exiting a Happy Patient
A happy patient walking out the door after an appointment confirms that their experience with you, your team, and the care they received has met or exceeded their expectations. You should conclude every appointment this way—leaving the patient with a positive...
Creating a Positive Front Desk Encounter
Once patients walk into your office, how do you make them stay… and come back? By providing superior service and top quality dental care, starting at the front desk. A positive front desk encounter begins with the look and feel of the front office when a...
Minimize No-Shows with a Winning Reminder Process
In our last few blog posts we talked about the importance of each patient touch point in establishing your brand—that intangible bond with your patients. Because when patients feel that connection they are more inclined to make appointments and pay a fair price...
12 useful and creative ways to use floss you’ve never thought of
We stumbled across this list while doing very serious (ahem) blog research and had to share it with you. Let us know if you try any at home. We know there’s a few we want to try! Slice delicate foods When baking more finicky foods like bread or cinnamon rolls that...
Watch Now! Marquette Dental Students Get “Footloose” with Annual Dance Video
Dental students aren’t known for having a lot of free time during finals week. But that doesn’t stop Marquette University dental students from creating an epic dance video every year. This year they went with a classic—transforming “Footloose” into an exuberant show...
8 Procedures Your Staff Can Do to Increase Revenue
There may come a time when you’re facing a decreasing revenue stream, whether from a lack of new patients, changes in dealings with major insurance providers, or another issue. But by adding more clinical procedures that your staff can legally do you can add...
Proposing to a Dental Assistant? This Guy’s Got it Right
It appears that gone are the days when proposals were simple, not requiring much thought beyond whether or not the ground was suitable for getting down on one knee. Instead, today many proposals are turned into elaborate affairs caught on camera for the happy couple...