The Principal's Guide to the Business of Periodontal Care Online Course is available now!
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Online Course
The Principal's Guide to the Business of Periodontal Care
This business course helps principals and practice managers navigate the journey from an existing periodontal protocol towards a modern-day high-value care proposition to your patients.
Following the success of our 'How to Design a Profitable Periodontal Programme' online course, we listened to feedback and created a bespoke course for managers and principals to further support the changes and developments happening within their periodontal protocols, appointments and fee structures. This course promised to support the development of a robust system and protocols to better support patients and enable the business to prosper.
We know how busy you are, and that's why we have designed this course in small bite-size lessons with a big impact!
Healthy Patient - Happy Clinicians - Healthy Business!
Why are there so many disconnects between optimum periodontal care and business models?
- Historic business models don't serve the current guidance of delivering periodontal and preventive care
- Inadequate appointment structures and fees don't allow for optimum care which can be stressful for clinicians and a loss for the business.
- Poor team knowledge and not using adequate language to support the differentiation of appointments and the benefits of attending
- Short appointments due to a historic model in place where the patient's perception is 'cleaning' does not support adequate communication and education.
- The NHS or some dental plans have created restrictions on appointment times and frequency and therefore you feel restricted in changing your protocols to follow the S3 guidelines.
What will I gain from the course?
- An understanding of the common challenges and pitfalls to avoid.
- Learn how to set up different appointments that support the latest S3 guidelines and are the foundation of excellent patient care and profitability.
- Learn how to set fees, according to your overheads to provide a win-win situation with your clinical team and the business.
- Understand how your schedule can be set up to optimise patient care, deliver a set value each day and measure clinical efficiency.
- Learn vital KPIs and clinical audits to ensure your services are running optimally.
- Learn how to navigate patients through change.
- Learn some simple communication tips to increase value, treatment acceptance and a reduction in late cancellations.
- Develop an understanding of the team's role in supporting periodontal care.
- A workbook that will become your documented system.
- Document templates
Key Benefits of the Course
- A strong periodontal programme is the most important building block for building an excellent hygiene department within the dental practice.
- It provides the framework to adapt your appointments to serve your patients' needs best. This framework makes it simpler to add on other aspects of care and to incorporate a digital prevention programme if the practice is offering digital dentistry.
- Having the appointment structure reduces the pressure to clean teeth and instead serves the patients to move towards health making everyone a winner.
- Allows you to develop a business model that is aligned with patient care.
- It provides you with the ability to set fees harmoniously considering running costs and salaries.
- Increased profitability of the hygiene room and of the whole practice.
