Learn the FIVE essentials every dentist and team must do to increase hygiene profits and empower the hygiene team – all while delivering outstanding care. Choose from the following segments to customize this presentation for your group:

Understanding the Business of Hygiene
Uncovering Opportunity with the Hygiene Analysis

While patient care is the primary focus, practice statistics are often the gauge for measuring the level of care being provided. Knowing how to analyze and monitor hygiene department statistics enables you to know at any moment how well your systems are being implemented – when to celebrate and when to get re-focused.

• Uncover specific areas of the hygiene department that hold untapped potential for growth
• Learn the FIVE down and dirty hygiene department benchmarks to track and report every month
• Discover how open time in hygiene can actually be a good thing
• Determine the true level of periodontal disease awareness in YOUR practice

Suggested Format: Consider adding a half-day workshop where attendees bring their hygiene department statistics to analyze.

The Motivated Mindset
Why We Do What We Do

Uncover the most common mistakes that when corrected can easily triple the amount of perio therapy you’re performing, increase production, reduce stress and set you apart as a true healthcare professional.

• Resources to get the entire team on the same page with a common Perio Standard of Care
• Science-based rationale to overcome mental barriers that hold hygienists and dentists back from recommending ideal perio treatment
• Develop critical thinking skills to create customized treatment plans and increase case acceptance
• Specific language for presenting perio treatment to existing patients-and getting a surprisingly high acceptance rate

Get Over It!
Identify and Clear the Most Common Hygiene Department Obstacles

Learn how to identify and clear the five most prevalent barriers that may be preventing you and your team from delivering high level care and reaping the rewards of a profitable hygiene department.

• The 5 most common obstacles that keep practices from implementing new systems and services and how to overcome them
• How to resolve typical scheduling challenges that hurt hygiene productivity and the care provided to patients Tips to get out of the Prophy Trap for good

Implementing Hygiene Systems for Increased Productivity

Learn a systematic approach for the entire hygiene appointment that will increase treatment enrollment, decrease stress and improve the efficiency of hygiene appointments no matter your role on the dental team.

• How what you do in the first 20 minutes of the hygiene visit effects the entire practice
• How to drastically reduce the time it takes for the doctor exam while dramatically increasing the effectiveness
• The #1 activity that is responsible for most hygienists running over
• How to uncover critical information that may be hiding in your patients’ medical history

Empower the Team
The Self-Managing Hygiene Department
Empowering hygienists to take initiative to improve their own skills and hold each other accountable actually starts with strong doctor leadership. In this course, learn the four T’s needed to transform a hygiene team from employees to business and clinical partners.

• Groom the high-performing Doctor/Hygiene team approach using intra-oral photography and co-diagnosis skills to increase restorative enrollment from hygiene
• Real-life examples of hygiene departments that went from good to great
• Compensation strategies that serve the hygienist, the patient and the practice
• Strategies to allow doctors to empower and trust their hygienists rather than micromanaging

Clinical Skills Development Workshop
(Can be added as SECOND DAY)

Refining and calibrating clinical diagnostic and treatment techniques will ensure consistent high-level care and treatment plans that are patient-centered. This course will reveal science-based evidence for moving to a modern model of power instrumentation while including tips and techniques to take your confidence and skill to a new level.

• How to calibrate perio probing technique with doctors and hygienists
• Techniques for evaluating x-rays for bone loss
• Evidence-based rationale comparing the effectiveness of hand instrumentation to ultrasonics Leveraging ultrasonic power as your primary instrumentation modality
• The instrumentation workshop requires an additional Inspired Hygiene instructor

Suggested Format: Doctor, Hygienists, Office Managers, Team
Suggested Audience: Full or Half-day Lecture; Two-Day with Hands-on Workshop

Make It Work for YOU!

Feeling inadequate or fighting a losing battle with your dental software?

• Inadequate or time consuming clinical notes
• Nondiagnostic images
• Incomplete or inaccurate charting
• System feels like a foreign language

You’re not alone. Many clinicians struggle with their software and new technologies in practicing dentistry. With 30+ years’ experience in dentistry, Jamie Marboe, RDH, BS, (past Certified Eaglesoft Trainer) shares solutions that unlock the potential of your software, enabling greater knowledge/efficiency and ultimately improving patient care.

Learn some of the unknown or under-utilized areas where customization can make the software work more efficiently for you, such as clinical note templates, probing and charting paths, image templates, “quick pick” buttons, bundled service codes, common insurance claim notes, etc. Discern key time management concepts for improving accuracy and efficiency. Discover a reporting system which pulls information that can be used to improve patient management and practice profitability.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the important steps to take which maximize the team and patient experience.
• Identify the important reports for Hygiene Department profitability (functionality).
• Detect time management “Tips and Tricks” minimizing stress and inaccuracies.
• Understand shortcuts for clinical charting, notes and scheduling.
• Customize your software to adapt to your needs and clinical practices.

Suggested Format: Half-day (1 to 3 hours)
Suggested Audience: Doctor and team

Calibrating the Entire Dental Team

Frustrated that the whole team isn’t speaking the same language?

Tired of the good cop/bad cop hygiene mentality? Feel like sometimes your schedule is Grand Central Station and other times a ghost town? Calibrate the entire dental team for clearer, more effective communications, increased treatment acceptance and greater quality of patient care.

Drawing on her 35 years’ experience in dentistry, Jamie Marboe, RDH, BS, shares systems and protocols designed to attune the practice’s periodontal processes: from scheduling to diagnosis to treatment.

Learn step by step methods for diagnosis, treatment planning, case presentation and overcoming obstacles. Attendees will develop their calibration action plan and distinguish the skills necessary to get everyone on the same page.

Learning Objectives

• Identify key inconsistencies with systems and communications from front to back office.
• Discover effective scheduling techniques to prevent last minute cancellations and no shows.
• Eliminate old belief systems. Calculus does not always equal periodontal disease and vice versa.
• Utilize new perio language without losing patient trust.
• Eliminate ‘running over’. Learn how to keep an hour appointment to an hour!
• Learn the skills necessary to get everyone speaking the same language!

Suggested Format:  Full or Half-day (4 to 6 hours)
Suggested Audience: Doctor and team