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Recruiting and Hiring for the Dental Practice

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: dental, hire, hiring, practice, recruit, staff, team

Successful hiring of staff and selection decisions are the foundation of all productive dental practices. It’s unfortunate that the hiring process in many practices has become a gamble at best. The applicant looked perfect, but when it came down to … Continue reading →

Recruiting and Hiring for the Dental Practice

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: dental, hire, hiring, human, practice, recruit, resources

Learn How Many Patients In Your Practice Are Overdue

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: management, overdue, patients, practice, recall

Learn How Many Patients in Your Practice are Overdue The average practice has 750 to 1000 patients overdue for their recall appointment. This is largely due to weak or lacking recall and reactivation systems. Patients get left behind because no … Continue reading →

Where, Oh Where Have Your Patients Gone?

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: dental, dentist, patient

Patients are falling through the cracks in the majority of practices, unbeknownst to the doctor and team. They are focused on getting new patients, and pay little attention to the gold mine available to them with a few clicks of … Continue reading →

When Is It Okay to Inactivate Patients?

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: dental, inactivate, inactivation, management, patient, practice

When is it Okay to Inactivate Patients? You will hear a lot of different descriptions of an active patient, down the dental pipeline. When you are looking at missed opportunities and potential patient flow, consider all patient records. From my … Continue reading →

How to Retain More Patients

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: dental, dentistry, more, patients, retain

I can’t think of a practice with patients lined up outside the door with cash in their wallets, waiting to be next in the chair. Unfortunately it is not this way in dentistry. If you want to improve patient volume … Continue reading →

Utterances

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: complaining, gossip, utterances

There is no place for criticalness, fault-finding, loathing, bellyaching, complaining, or grumbling in an office. Anyone in the office who is there to do their job and improve their surroundings including, our patients and themselves, will not badmouth circumstances, situations, … Continue reading →

Action Steps for a Reactivation Project

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Sandy Pardue

Typically a practice will start thinking about doing a reactivation project when they are desperate for patients. The reactivation attempts should be ongoing for a consistent flow of patients rather than a desperate move. If you can’t afford to lose … Continue reading →

Go for Your Dreams

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: article, dreams, for, go, your

Dentists go to great lengths to try and build their practices. They invest a tremendous amount of time and money to become dentists and set up a practice by getting through college, dental school, and continuing education courses. They invest … Continue reading →

Communicating and Relating with Patients

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Sandy Pardue

Tags: communicating, patients, relating, training

The following are important guidelines when dealing with patients. Patients’ needs are NUMBER ONE in importance! You must leave your personal problems and troubles outside the office. Patients come to the office to improve their oral health and to get … Continue reading →

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