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
