Do you know where your new patients are coming from? How are they finding you? Now is the time when you are likely putting together your annual budget for expenses, including a marketing budget. But if you don’t know what marketing campaigns are bringing in the new patients, how do you know where to spend […]
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Goodbye 2019 and Hello 2020
Goodbye 2019 and Hello 2020! I can’t believe we are starting a new decade. It is good to have short term, midterm and long term goals, however today let’s think about what you can implement today and in the next 30, 60 or 90 days. You can make a huge impact in your practice when […]
The Month End Process in Dentrix has Changed . . . is yours working properly?
Categories: Practice management
The Month End Process in Dentrix has changed . . . in a good way. Back in the day, you would have to come in early or stay late to make sure all the computers were logged out of Dentrix in order to run your month end process. Not only can you now schedule the […]
Final Push for End of the Year
Categories: Marketing, Practice management
We are in the final quarter of the year and starting to look ahead to the new year. This is very evident as you walk through Costco and see all the Christmas decorations lining the aisle. When you are still having 80 degree weather, it is hard to start thinking about the end of the […]
Four Steps to more Productive Scheduling – Dr. Bicuspid
Categories: Scheduling
re-printed with permission from Dr. Bicuspid I was recently presenting to a group of dental teams in the Denver area and I was on the topic of the appointment book. One lady in the audience raised her hand and said, “You know . . . nobody uses an appointment book anymore. Everyone uses the computer […]
Dentrix Ask the Experts – Tracking and Monitoring Goals
Categories: Practice management, Scheduling
Do you want to track and monitor your production goals in Dentrix? In this quick video you will see where to enter the goals for your providers and how to see them on the appointment book.
Best Tips for Ortho in Dentrix
Categories: Dental Insurance, Practice management
The dental practice I worked in for 18 years offered both straight wire and Invisalign orthodontics, which accounted for about 25% of our total production. This is a sizable amount for a general practice, and this also meant that most of our patients were both ortho patients and general dental patients. This brought many challenges […]
Setting up the Dentrix Month End Task Scheduler
Categories: Practice management
Do you have questions about the new Dentrix Month End Task Scheduler? Our short video might help. The Month End Update was replaced with the Month End Task Scheduler in Dentrix version G6.5+. What I find is many offices do not set it up because they assume their previous setup will convert over. Let me […]
Top Three Reports for Weekly Schedule Management
Categories: Scheduling
We teach our patients to be preventive with their oral health so they don’t end up in an emergency situation with a toothache or broken tooth … but are you practicing what you are preaching? Are you practicing in a preventive way to avoid situations that feel like an emergency? I recently did a webinar […]
Lack of cash flow means someone isn’t getting paid
Categories: Practice management
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Star of the North dental meeting this year and one of the courses I taught is titled, “Numbers Tell a Story . . . the 5 stats every office should monitor” and the one number that always brings the most discussion is accounts receivable. It is amazing […]
