Category: Dental Office Tips
Tips for Keeping Your Dental Office Clean
Cleanliness is incredibly important in dental offices. Whether you operate a one-doctor office or bustling group practice, you need to ensure that your business is clean. After all, a clean office will help attract new patients and keep your old ones coming back year after year. Use the six tips below as a guide for […]
How to Get More Referrals for Your Dental Office
Referrals are the key to growing any business, but word of mouth is especially important for dentists. Every dental clinic offers the same basic services; it’s hard to differentiate the difference between dental services among offices. What does change from office to office is the environment created and the experience provided to the patient. Patients […]
5 Ways to Make (and Keep) Dental Patients Happy
Keeping dental patients happy is the key to running a successful dental office. It will simultaneously earn you return business while preventing patients from moving to your competition. To keep your dental patients happy, follow these five tips. #1: Start With the Perfect Waiting Room Environment Everything begins with your waiting room. It’s the first […]
What Do Dental Patients Want in a Waiting Room?
Many factors outside of the care dentists provide can have a huge impact on patient satisfaction. Among the most influential is wait times. Studies have shown that longer wait times have a significant effect on a patient’s perception of and satisfaction with their care. While it’s in your dental clinic’s best interest to keep wait […]
Simple Ways to Reduce Dental Patient Cancellations and Increase Revisits
Patient cancellations and no-shows are an issue for nearly every dental office in the country. They cost money, they waste time and they cause headaches for dentists and their staff. On top of these issues, dentists also face the task of winning returned business from new customers. To do so, they must present a […]
The Best Way to Organize Your Dental Office Waiting Room
An organized waiting room automatically looks cleaner, more inviting and an overall better place to be. If you are struggling with redesigning the layout of your reception area, follow these tips to help you through the process. Study the Flow of Traffic Whether they are heading to the bathroom, out the door, to the reception […]
Is Your Waiting Room Reducing Your Patient Retention Rates?
There is an old adage in business that is still true today: it costs less money and time (also money) to retain a client than it does to acquire a new one. This applies to dental patient retention just as much as it does for any small or large business. When it gets down to […]
The 4 Key Elements of a Great Waiting Room Experience
Your waiting room is the first and last thing patients in your office, and it has a substantial effect on whether or not they choose to return to your dental office. To ensure that you don’t have customers visiting your office once and never returning, make sure your waiting room has these four key elements: […]
Creating a Comfortable Dentist Waiting Room Experience
Your waiting room is doing more for your dental business than you can imagine. It’s the first thing people see when they enter your office, and the last thing they see when they leave. Even if you if are doing everything right while patients are in the your dental chair, you may still be losing […]
How to Keep Your Dental Patients Warm
Keeping your dental office a bit on the cold side has its benefits. It can help prevent the multiplication and spread of bacteria and other pathogens, aid in the development of x-ray film, and keep you from overheating while working. But is that cool, 68-degree temperature you keep your office at making it uncomfortable for […]