General Business Management / Marketing, Business Growth / Technology
Join us in our three-part series as we delve into the details of the benefits, features, and best practices for using a Google Business Profile for your dental practice. In this blog post, we go over the reasons your practice should set up a Google Business Profile if your office does not have one set up already.
General Business Management / Patient Communication / Productivity, Optimal Performance
Harnessing software that provides time-saving benefits, such as ABELDent, can help you easily send multiple patient reminders with a click of a button.
General Business Management / Marketing, Business Growth
Public online reviews, such as Google Reviews or Facebook Reviews provide powerful leverage that can help potential patients make decisions about where to go for dental care. By proactively curating great reviews, your practice’s online presence can work towards guiding new patients to your office for treatment.
General Business Management / Patient Communication / Productivity, Optimal Performance / Technology
How much does your current dental software allow you to do? Does your current software provide you with all the tools you need to manage your practice? How many different programs does your practice use daily? These are some burning questions fuelling the growing number of offices switching to practice management platforms that provide more tools. Whether it is because of the simplicity of automatic updates, or the surety of meeting compliance standards, many practices are moving to modern, comprehensive solutions like ABELDent CS/LS+.
General Business Management / Patient Communication / Productivity, Optimal Performance / Technology
It can be a challenge to convince some patients of the importance of their oral hygiene. Oftentimes, patients do not realize how important regular cleanings are until they are facing issues such as decay, potential extractions, and endodontic treatments.
General Business Management / Productivity, Optimal Performance / Technology
How many different software platforms does your dental practice use daily? Dental offices have a growing number of technologies available to meet practice specific practice needs. Some practices use more of these than others, trying to get the most benefit from each. This approach can sometimes get complicated. For instance, if one or more of the solutions have difficulties, it can lead to having to spend time on the phone with multiple companies while at the same time trying to work through the issues created in the office. Most of all, having many different types of software can result in new problems when one of the solutions is updated without a corresponding change in other software. A more comprehensive dental software can help to minimize these issues, and often save you money at the same time.
General Business Management / Patient Communication / Productivity, Optimal Performance
The dental industry has undoubtedly been negatively impacted by the pandemic’s ripple effects worldwide. Oral healthcare was quickly identified as a risk due to the nature of the virus transmission, as well as the use of aerosols in many dental treatments. Dental providers have adapted and implemented many new processes to keep patients and dental teams optimally safe from the virus. In this blog, learn 5 strategies for getting patients back in your chairs for routine appointments to get your office back on track.
General Business Management / Productivity, Optimal Performance
How do you improve morale when hard times hit? Whether your dental assistants or reception team are leaving a first impression, or you are treating a long-time patient, patient acquisition and retention comes down to the quality of care provided. Providing quality care to patients involves multiple factors, one of which is having a positive team. Your patients are more likely to be comfortable with someone who has a happy presence in the operatory.
General Business Management / Patient Communication / Productivity, Optimal Performance
The role of the dental receptionist is a complicated one, and it differs from office-to-office. There are varied job descriptions, tasks, and duties established by each practice. Something consistent, however, is that dental receptionists are always on the "front lines" in a practice. Fielding patient and team inquiries, managing patient issues, and keeping all records organized are just some of the tasks receptionist's handle. For many prospective patients, receptionists and front-desk workers are the face of the practice.
General Business Management / Patient Communication
The end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has been a difficult time for everyone with COVID-19 cases steadily rising throughout December and January. With lockdown continuing in various areas, we are turning our focus back to making the most of your practice’s downtime and preparing for the future influx of patients.
