Stabilizing Your Practice after the COVID-19 Shutdown As this is written, the top questions practices ask us primarily revolve around the following: Stabilization of their financial status Utilization of their PPP funds Accessibility to PPE How to appropriately understand and execute new infection control guidelines How to cope with employment surprises as they bring back…

Your dental practice is open, but your team member is sick. What do you do? It’s a worry on the mind of many dental practice leaders across the nation and world right now. In an effort to help you develop a plan specific to your practice and level of comfort, we have developed some general…

1. Set the tone. You’ve done your homework and have chosen to reopen your dental practice. There are a lot of opinions out there, so how do you handle the marketing of reopening? In our experience, if the plan is a solid one and you’re abiding by state laws and CDC recommendations, the best tone…

5 Tips to Get Back on Track with Practice Growth Like many businesses around the world, your dental practice has had a serious setback with the recent closure. Now, as you are poised to reopen or as you walk through your first days fully open, you might find yourself still in crisis mode, waiting for…

Staying connected with your patients during coronavirus closures by making plan for your dental practice marketing. You’re frustrated, sitting at home when you should be practicing dentistry. After all, you went to school for this, and paid tens of thousands of dollars to care for people’s oral health. And now you’re stuck at home, twiddling…

When dental practices have a lapse in treating patients, it is often difficult to catch up with the number of lapsed hygiene patients due in the retention schedule, especially as the doctor’s schedule is often too limited to realistically work in these extra evaluations. The result can be missed production in the hygiene department. The…

“Those who stabilize now will soar later.” —Cathy Jameson. Our heart breaks for those of you who are forced to close your doors for two weeks, three weeks, or more. We know the uncertainty is the worst thing. Most dental practices can handle a temporary closure if they feel they can reschedule, rather than indefinitely…

Utilize cell phone triage – Have the patient use the cell phone to take a picture of the area and text to the dentist/dental team member. If it is an existing patient – you can determine the need for next steps. If it is a new patient – you will be limited on what you…