Planet DDS

JANUARY 31, 2024

What are the top challenges facing dental practices and dental support organizations (DSOs) this year? We asked the editors / content contributors for five dental industry magazines to share their thoughts. Their answers include recruiting, staffing, training, and more.

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Planet DDS

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The concept of “lean” business practices dates back to the assembly line made popular by Henry Ford. It’s the idea of finding efficiencies and reducing wasteful practices in a business. Applied to dentistry, lean practices can help your practice adapt to recent challenges including staffing shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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Dental Peers

AUGUST 1, 2022

Last month, we discussed the importance of cross-training, particularly at a time when so many offices are struggling with shortages of team members. Yet lack of training is one of the greatest sources of frustrations many dental team members complain about. The question is how to do this effectively. Yes, I said the word “onboarding.”

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Planet DDS

JANUARY 28, 2022

In the dental industry, too, the staffing crisis, which predated the pandemic, and this extreme labor imbalance continues to pose significant challenges for dental practices. . According to a recent report , the world is experiencing the biggest talent shortage in 15 years. Showcase your dental practice culture .

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Planet DDS

JUNE 28, 2021

So, let’s get the initial dose of it out of the way and address the dental hygienist shortage. are facing a shortage of registered dental hygienists. Following are a few statistical realities to put this whole shortage deal in perspective. as of 2019,…there are 226,400 dental hygiene jobs in the U.S.,

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YapiApp

JUNE 14, 2022

If your practice is short-staffed and stressed out, we have the perfect verbal skills your front office needs to address your staffing shortage to your patients. ……… Dental practices are facing the critical problem of mismatched supply and demand. How to Communicate with Your Dental Patients.

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Planet DDS

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Whether you’re in a private practice or part of a large dental group, you have probably noticed someone in your practice who is feeling burned out. Curtis Swogger, COO of My Community Dental Centers (34 locations in Michigan) I believe all positions suffer from burnout and compassion fatigue at any given time.

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Planet DDS

MAY 18, 2021

It’s the feeling you might also have as you think about needing to boost your dental patient volume. Sure, there’s no shortage of standard, “canned” comments. For example, a four-day per week dental practice could increase available time for doctor production by an equivalent of 32 days or two months per year.

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YapiApp

JUNE 14, 2022

Dental practices are facing the critical problem of mismatched supply and demand. According to a survey from late 2021, dental practices saw patient volume reach 89%, the highest since March 2020. Quality dental front office employees are also hard to come by.

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YapiApp

APRIL 7, 2022

Meet Irene Iancu, RDH – YAPI Advocate and Savvy Startup Practice Owner in Toronto, Canada. Reporting LIVE from a startup practice at the height of a global pandemic – a business owner who has never run an office before and is terrified every day. Luckily, I had incorporated YAPI into my practice from day one.

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Off the Cusp

JUNE 20, 2023

Off the Cusp - Patterson Dental blog Read Time: 12 Minute, 0 Second Dr. Lee doubles his practice size to make room for his daughters. He’s been practicing in a profession he loves for 31 years. His Elkhart Dental Center (now Elkhart Dental and Implant Center) has done nothing but grow since the day he opened it.

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