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developed. Very often a previously completed treatment is out of site and out of mind, so for patients this can be a great opportunity to reinforce the high- quality work they have already receive in your office. For example, you can show how healthy the gum tissue is around a new porcelain crown
December 10, 2015
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in six months, so we can keep her gums healthy. Doctor found some cavities. He wants to see her back here before they get larger and start to give her problems. It's important to communicate the urgency for the next appointment and not just simply process people The technical staff person tells
May 06, 2016
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on it you will have 80% of your pts sign up. Some cases where only lower quad is inflamed or bleeding we present it as $50 for lower quad. Something to the effect of "Ms Jones we charge laser $50 for lower and $50 for upper gums. Your out of pocket is $100 for the whole mouth". We will re evaluate in a few
April 29, 2026
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have the benefits and/or future benefits of the services received. Example: Do you want to come in for an appointment? Answer: No! Would you like to have teeth without cavities? Answer: Yes! Would you like to have healthy teeth without cavities and gums that dont bleed and be free of infection
March 05, 2021
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and inflammation in your gums. That's a concern because it means you have an infection in your gums. Gum infection is the major reason for adults to lose their teeth and one of the big reasons for that is it may not cause a lot of pain in the beginning. You're still in the early stages here and you may be able
July 13, 2015
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hung up, did not want to pay more than $12. I gave up smoking, drinking, and women, it was the longest 15 minutes of my life - some country music singerNo it's not healthy to be obsessed with dentistry. Get a life. You DO need work life balanceThere is no spouse or kids. There are no friends
September 26, 2018
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per person and family member , depending on your plan. Our goal with every one of our patients is to help you enjoy great oral health .That means you look good, you feel good , you have strong teeth and gums, and you enjoy the benefits of a healthy , attractive smile for a lifetime. If you would
February 02, 2017
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As I'm closing up on year 3 of ownership, I'm taking a look at my practice and seeing what we can do to improve for 2019. One thing I've noticed is although my hygiene schedule seems fuller (8 days of hygiene per week), comparing hygiene production from year to year it has been stable. The doctor...
November 08, 2018
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to value the appointment. I would notsay cancellation or reschedule while you are prebooking. I am really wanting to stay on top of keeping your tissue healthy and prevent any gum disease. It is really important that I clean your teeth when you are due. In order for you to get the time you prefer lets
May 09, 2019
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For a single dental provider with a 3 op office These patients are non par + cash patients. Any idea on numbers? or at least a range? Thanks yes...How many days are you open? Are you doing hygiene? fish, The average GP, in an average market, with an average scope of treatment, with average...
January 29, 2014
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In my state if you are in network with both Premier and PPO, you are automatically signed up with the state pediatric medicaid-Delta Healthy Kids. Going OON, patients still have access to use their insurance except for the Healthy Kids plan. That is gone. How do you handle that? My thought
November 06, 2021
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that is on the time card It will amaze you how healthy your staff becomes when they don't get paid Yeah to get back to the actual question about paying staff when they are out: I don't offer sick pay. I only offer PTO. If they miss they have to use PTO, once they are out or don't have any available
March 04, 2026
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hello all, what is a healthy annual % growth of hygiene production for a growing dental office? Is there some sort of guideline out there? This article should help. It's from 2018, but the information is still relevant today.
August 01, 2023
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dentist for my next cleaning, and I was in for a word of surprise. Turns out ***this office*** never took the gum health measurements they were supposed to (ny new dentist was surprised that this could be possible, apparently it's the standard of care expected), neither did they check out the areas
August 05, 2015
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understand that their visit is not just a cleaning. They will be screened for oral cancer, their gums will be checked for any signs of periodontal disease, any existing restorations will be evaluated and yes, they will have their teeth cleaned and polished. You also need to be sure whoever
September 18, 2017
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will collect bacteria and you will find bleeding, inflamed gum tissue which will make seating your bonded restoration a nightmare! Provide your patients with Perioguard or any cholorhexadine rinse to guarantee their gum tissue will be in perfect health when it comes time to bond your final restoration. LAB
December 06, 2015
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of our patients receive what I believe you are referring to as a general cleaning, the dental term being a prophylaxis or a preventive cleaning. These are done for patients who do not have periodontal disease (chronic inflammation of the gums, ligament, and/or bone that support the teeth) or significant
July 14, 2022
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Is there a metric that would tell me if as an organization, we have too many staff? we have central billing for 3 offices but everything else done at the office level. I have been tracking our staff hours spent per each appointment for each month and want to see if anyone knows what it's supposed...
March 29, 2022
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most of my adult patients, and children in active Ortho on 3 or 4 month recalls, and if they don't attend for one year or more, they will need at least two visits to complete scaling and make sure their tissues are healthy. Patients usually make their next appointment before they leave our office
March 16, 2017
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to production/collections ratio. (I am looking for a healthy consumables number, I feel especially now with COVID consumables are high but the production does not reflect that/staff and patients want all this stuff but no one is willing to pay for it, except me LOL ) 3. Write off percentage, in a month
June 02, 2022
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. Simple recall prophies on healthy teeth/patients are the absolute least profitable thing you can do in your office. You are likely losing money. You cannot keep sending your patients a $10-$30 bill (or more) as you insist on raising fees in the face of My insurance pays 100% on cleanings All it does
February 21, 2023
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I guess it's a complex question. It should be more how much is net profit per hour that I work, right? What's a healthy average? Should I expect tobe paid $100/hr? Or $200? or #75? What would make it a healthy pay so that the office is attractive to be sellable? I need advise. Not interested
February 03, 2014
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, no fillings needed now (maybe in the next several years if tooth stains progress for the worse), and I will never need my wisdom teeth removed (they fit fine in my mouth, my gums are fine, they are clean). I can't help but think that Dr. Giron is just out to make a buck. Get a second opinion. I need
January 27, 2018
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My office manager/ receptionist is a heavy smoker. She smokes 2-3 times an hour. At times , especially right after she comes in after smoking, she has an offensive breath if you are standing within 4-5 feet of her. She does use listerine and chews gum but still. She has been working with us
February 24, 2015
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and want them to be healthy. It continues to amaze me how may patients think that there bleeding gums are normal. Ed Do not put up with this shit. You're the boss. Lead. Don't let staff get away with making remarks about you. Call her out in front of envy one. You write her paycheck. There are people
November 13, 2014
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method will be best : email (complaint was through email survey), phone, letter? The complaint was that the patient felt scolded by the hygienist for state of gums, and misses old hygienist who he says had a nicer way of saying difficult things (in reality, she just never diagnosed any perio
March 04, 2015
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. As a Medicaid provider since 1977, it tweaked my interest and thought I would attempt to see what kind of resources are out here. ACA has made significant changes to previous Medicaid models, we're trying to learn how it functions now to keep those covered by it as healthy as they will allow
September 17, 2014
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to roll, have an opening in just a few days. Pushing it out farther is just more room for them to cancel. Yeah I agreeI agree. It's not wise to fill up the whole week schedule in case any patients want to come in. That's not what I'm asking here. I wanted to know what is the healthy % number towards
September 02, 2017
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and patient flow. I'm just not sure where the bottle neck is. Working with Justin Short and our main goal has been to try to track out treatment planning. To hit goals, we need to have 3x treatment planned. Which seems difficult for us. Since either my patients are really healthy, or I'm really
December 20, 2017
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surprised that her mother know what the 19 year old eats. One of the teenager at my clinic has a low sugar diet. But to stay healthy and to get all her nutrients from natural foods, she drinks all natural 100% fruit juice/smoothies throughout the day. She also hates the taste of water so she avoids
January 16, 2017
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if I'd like dessert after dinner or coffee with my breakfast. Do you? Sandy, how would you phrase it? I would expect your copay to be between 25-50$ itemizing things makes us sound like a Dennys menu, drives me nuts we want to keep your child's teeth healthy. I am recommending that he/she has
February 17, 2020
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, the practice numbers and the business health of your practice? Healthy overhead is key, staffing is the largest part of that. Are your salaries in a healthy range? Help her understand the business side and how salary increases work. How is she contributing to top line growth? Set goals for her
April 12, 2016
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, call and say I'd like to schedule an appt for a cleaning and check up. How do you tell them that will be 2 visits? What's the benefit of Dr first? I'm sure this is not the consultant recommendation, but I see all new patients first. If they are relatively healthy with no perio I will perform
January 06, 2018
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I was producing 2 million/yr a few years ago. Now my patients are much healthier and Im struggling to stay at 1.5 million. I dont advertise or market.We get about 15 new patients/mo.Im facing cutting staff because I dont want to work as much as I was, and I feel overstaffed for the lower
March 13, 2025
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these years. I was hoping as time passed our public would see the benefits of taking care of their teeth and gums, that it would be a priority but actually a smaller percentage of the population is going to the dentist every year. I agree, we've had a few ppl tell us that they only want to come 1 x
May 13, 2015
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I understand different General Practices have different strong points, some enjoy surgery,some endo , but can some average production breakdown be presemted for an average healthy practice. Percentage preventive, restorative , fix pros? Thanks Here are my numbers from 2010, the most recent year I
March 13, 2017
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resistance. Largely one hygienist of three is doing a couple gum treatments a day and they all have Period Maint on their schedule where appropriate. I should mention they make $550/day in a 6.75 hr work day-9 pts seen. Recently I've started working with a consulting group, for almost three months
March 31, 2014
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target is 53% of net collections long term. #2 put 3 X your expenses (OH + Dr. Comp) in the bank so you can come from a position of power. #3 work with the right people (get rid of the repeat offenders and have a lean and mean team. #4 don't try to solve management problems with a marketing solution. Get your foundation healthy then grow it towards a FFS practice. Best of luck Deb
February 17, 2020
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. Do you do anything just for you? Exercise and eating healthy are obvious ones but, I'm also talking poker night with the guys or learning a new skill, etc. Shit man, come get my practice systems dependent
December 11, 2019
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advice for YOUR practice model. You need some training for your hygienists and some accountability systems put in place. i worked at an HMO office in socal. they were pushing srps when not needed. irrigation (which was just a perioguard rinse) and arrestin where in basically healthy tissue
May 17, 2025
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, they will say yes. No matter what is actually going on ha. So ask what they are interested in being scheduled for..or something like that I'm also considering doing the following: 1. stop prescheduling patients that have relatively healthy mouths 2. I also need to have my messaging system stop sending
March 16, 2023
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authentically care and then they will trust you and your practice will grow! I tried to be short and sweet! I truly hope this helps! Respectfully, Heidi Mount H, Thanks, We use to give these out as part of SRP... but now we will sell them... I am going to add Sypr xylitol gum and floss. we also stock picketers(which really improve compliance0.. doug
December 30, 2015
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I've been working on AR a bit today and was wondering if I could get some feedback. What's an ideal or healthy ratio for accounts receivable compared to average adjusted/net production? Our current number is 0.84 AR on our 12 month average net production. If I factor in our pre-arranged payment
November 11, 2014
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for this year is 60.1%, but I have quite a few single doc general practices that manage to keep overhead around 50% so it's possible... they just work a lot more than average, haha. Lower overhead is not necessarily always better. The idea is to just monitor trends and keep overhead steady or healthy while
November 27, 2019
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is going on with your mouth. You have gum disease, a deep cleaning will start to get your mouth healthier, and with regular maintenance and cleanings hopefully you won't lose all your teeth. Remember that you can't care more about their teeth than them. When asked about why won't you do this root
September 18, 2017
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Why do I find myself discounting my fees and/or offering patients without insurance a case fee chair-side instead of letting my tx coordinator present tx? New patient comes in with a broken to gum line #8 and the other seven remaining , maxillary teeth are perio involved. I give the patient
January 30, 2014
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is going on between the teeth/under the gums. Our x-ray equipment is state of the art and delivers the smallest amount of radiation possible. We strongly disagree that we were pushy or condescending-we would never treat anyone this way. Period. We go out of our way to accommodate our patients. We
January 23, 2019
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starting from tomorrow and going backwards. Note: A fully booked operative schedule does not equal scheduled to goal. We need more information in order to give solid advance. Without that we are just posting to post, like flapping our gums. I asked some questions in my post above. There are many
October 26, 2018
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%. There are exceptions but I'm not going down that rabbit hole. You, in order to be able to have a healthy practice, create savings and fund a happy productive team, will want to pay your associate based on net production. And that figure is generally around 30%. When we ask a host doctor, what percentage
July 02, 2017
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for SRPs) will differ as do patients (healthy mouth or not). Has your consultant discussed assisted hygiene? I solved this problem by hiring a dedicated hygiene assistant. It has allowed my hygienist to be more efficient and as a result see a few more patients per day. The assistant seats, takes x rays
February 07, 2018
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