It is time of the year when in some practices things slow down. I have never really figured out why; maybe because of tax time or maybe it is an after the Holiday lull. There have always been things you can do, chart audits, special discount offers, email reminders of unfinished treatment plans, etc. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Patient Service'
Things Slow In Your Practice????
January 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Case Presentation · Continuing Education · Cosmetic Dentistry · Dental Diamonds · Digital Photography · Digital X-Rays · New Patients · News · Patient Service · Practice Management · Technology · Teeth Whitening · Uncategorized
Client Thank You
January 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Recently on a dental forum a practice was asking about “thank you” gifts for their clients and reasons to give them. It made me stop and think how this little thing is such a great practice builder. Being able to show your appreciate to your clients/patients who have choose you to take care of their […]
Tags: Administrative · Case Presentation · Cosmetic Dentistry · Dental Diamonds · Marketing · New Patients · Patient Service · Practice Management · Uncategorized · Websites & Internet
Feel Free to Ask! Dental Blogs is about sharing ideas without confrontation.
November 1st, 2005 · No Comments
We have all been on other forums where anyone can post anything about anyone. This often leads to angry and self-ritious grandstanding. In other words, confrontation for the sake of protecting ones turf, as opposed to simply sharing ideas for the simple sake of helping others. All the authors of this forum have the obligation […]
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TEMPUR-PEDIC® INTRODUCES NEW DENTAL CHAIR OVERLAY
October 4th, 2005 · No Comments
We have purchased these overlays instead of reupholstering our dental chairs. Much more cost effective, we don’t lose the use of our chairs, and patients LOVE them. Tempur-pedic has a medical division and you get a discount as a dental office. SRP is $695, but you can get it for $320 plus $20 shipping. 1-888-881-9779 […]
Tags: Dental Diamonds · Patient Service · Top 25 · Uncategorized
Future features for SmileReminder
September 19th, 2005 · No Comments
I got these from Jim Higgins, CEO of SmileReminder: HTML Newsletter Creator – Create and deliver custom newsletters with only a few simple keystrokes. The purpose is to educate patients, drive traffic to the practice web site and promote new patient referrals. We have developed a creator that automatically builds the HTML code on the […]
Tags: News · Patient Service · Uncategorized
Portrait/Marketing Instructional DVD now ready for release
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments
I (or maybe I should say Kim) finally has the first in my series of instructional videos ready for release. This is a short clip from the video. This first one shows an actual photo shoot. I kept this one very simple. No scripts, no extra stuff. It is just Stephanie taking portrait/marketing photos of […]
Tags: Digital Photography · Marketing · Patient Service
New Patient Information
September 12th, 2005 · No Comments
Smilereminder users, when gathering information from the new patient on their initial phone call be sure to get their email address. That allows smilereminder to start adding to your “WOW” factor before their very first appointment. Because Smilereminder syncs with your appointment on a daily basis it gathers the information for next day appointments. We […]
Tags: Dental Websites · Marketing · New Patients · Patient Service · Practice Management · Uncategorized
CAESY Enterprise 5.5 Released
August 10th, 2005 · No Comments
Vancouver, Wash. (Aug. 10, 2005) Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. announces the release of CAESY Enterprise 5.5, the newest update of its server-based software program that is dentistry’s number one choice for patient education. The release features new and updated multimedia presentations and an elegant new look and feel for ShowCase, the case presentation software included […]
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Dentistrytogo Podcast with Dr. Gerilyn Alfe – The start up practice
August 4th, 2005 · No Comments
Dr. Tom Hedge interviews Dr. Gerilyn Alfe on her adventure of starting up a new "from scratch" practice in a new city. Gerilyn moved from Maine to Chicago and has developed a new practice eactly the way she wanted. chicagosmilespa.com Download The Podcast Interview
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Portraits and Posing 2
August 4th, 2005 · No Comments
For this photo shoot I am showing how an elevator door can make a very interesting background effect. With the voice attachment I explain how we positioned Brook and our camera settings. We had to go inside because it started raining so Stephanie decided to take some shots before it stopped. She is the one […]
Tags: Digital Photography · Marketing · Patient Service