The Profitable Hygiene Programme
Healthy Patients & Higher Profits
This signature programme will help you to grow your dental practice through building an optimised present-day hygiene department that delivers the highest care whilst increasing your profitability.
It places focus on the design and implementation of periodontal and preventive care and how this supports and promotes dentistry in the practice. We work with your people and provide strategies and techniques to safely navigate your patients through change.
We believe in placing prevention at the heart of your practice, allowing for all other treatments to springboard from. Whether it's MI, restoratives, orthodontics or larger multi-disciplinary cases, this programme is designed for your whole team, including your business team.
Success is in teamwork after all!
Why are there so many barriers and challenges in delivering prevention that is measurable, successful and profitable?
Systems have historically dictated a norm in lower cost and short appointments where the patient commonly expect their teeth to be cleaned
The hygienist appointments are structured to mostly allow the ‘doing’ element and don’t enable sufficient engagement
The typical ‘check-up’ and send to hygiene doesn’t support delivering optimum comprehensive dentistry
Too often, we ourselves place low value on our services based on what we think our patients will pay and therefore do not open up the discussions about treatments that would benefit them
Every patient is fitted into a fixed appointment structure, thus, preventing individualised care
We don’t place enough focus on helping our patients to understand optimum health and function and what they need to do to improve their oral health and wellbeing
Underutilisation of dental nurses in gathering data and in delivering some aspects of prevention
What's involved in the profitable hygiene programme?
This programme is designed to be delivered to you and your team in a way that best suits the needs of your people and business model.
You can choose to work alone and take our online programme, go through our live remote training sessions or choose to have bespoke training live with one of our consultants.
Our desire is for you to go through our programme and for your patient, your people and your business to gain maximum benefit.
There are four strong pillars in this programme which are:
- Designing your hygiene department within your business model or desired business model.
- Creating and implementing a periodontal programme and prevention pathways intended to move all patients towards health.
- Maximising the skillset of your DH, DTh and DN in delivering the care that supports and promotes dentistry in the practice.
- Setting the business model objectives and designing a process to monitor and analyse the care you provide to your patients.
Periodontal care and prevention should be at the heart of your practice and which nurtures and feeds the dentistry that your patients need and benefit from and this programme is centred around this.
This programme is our largest signature programme because it strongly connects to every business and clinical system in your practice.
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Key Benefits from The Profitable Hygiene Programme
- You create a whole team approach that is focused on supporting your patients towards optimum health and function
- The whole team work smarter and harder together to deliver optimum care. Everyone is able to consider the four oral diseases and their connection to total health
- You will have the tools to position prevention in the heart of your practice and the communication skills to present your offerings to your patients
- Your practice will grow as you are able to open up more opportunities for both patients and business by connecting prevention to dentistry
- Enhanced communication models to support your patients in their understanding and behaviour change
- Categorise patients based on their risk and clinical need which enables you to support them in what you have agreed to rather than the same appointment structure for all
- Easy to implement finance models and how to present these to your patients
- As a clinician, you do not take ownership of your patients’ disease and challenges. Instead, you place ownership on them and support them in skills, knowledge, and behaviour change. Reaching this point of operating will enable you to help more of your patients working towards optimum health and function.
