Dental offices, like any other business, can sometimes receive negative online reviews. These reviews can be damaging to a practice’s reputation and may discourage potential patients from seeking treatment. However, with the right approach, dental offices can turn a negative review into an opportunity to improve patient satisfaction and enhance
Patient perception and expectations regarding dental treatment are influenced by various external factors. Understanding the dental implant patient’s perspective can improve the treatment outcome, and it entails exploring the patient’s concerns, feelings, ideas, and experience regarding the missing teeth as well as what the patient expects from dental implants themselves.
The goal of any dental treatment is to achieve maximum patient satisfaction. However, dental phobia can get on the way to having a pleasant experience at the dentist for many people. Following some of the measures and tips in this article, we can improve the overall experience of patients.
Anyone landing on the website for Marisa Zenha’s practice based in Porto, Portugal, for the first time might be forgiven for being a little confused. There is not a single white coat in sight and instead the practice staff on the welcome page look ready for an evening at the
Empowering your team members is the recipe for a successful practice. This can be accomplished in many ways. Showing your team members that you trust them is one way of empowering them. It is helpful to get to know your team members personally to build this trust. Making time to catch up with your team members will keep them engaged, as opposed to having a transactional culture in the office that is based on orders and tasks.
We talk to Professor Salvatore Cantale, who lectures on the online ITI/IMD online Dental Practice Management course, about the role played by finance in running a successful practice. Tell us a little about yourself My name is Salvatore Cantale and I have been a professor at IMD for 10 years.
“Why am I doing this?” is a question you should always ask yourself! Why am I placing this implant? Am I replacing a missing tooth? Restoring esthetics? Providing function? Or am I doing something at a deeper level such as restoring confidence? Building a personality? Improving self-esteem? Uncovering the deeper
We as dentists usually really love what we do and gain great satisfaction from helping patients and providing great service. Since we are in our dental offices every day, treating our patients, sometimes we do not realize that a majority of the people who come to us are very anxious
Dr Torsten Seidenstricker participated in the first cycle of our Dental Practice Management course. We asked him why he took the course and what he liked most about it. For him, this online format was the only and right way to study in parallel to his full-time job. In his opinion, modern dentists have to be able to lead people, talk business and
Patient satisfaction is the final goal of all our treatments and also our highest reward, or, in other words, it is the end result that we want to achieve from our treatments, and gives meaning to all our endeavors. It is interesting that in our dental school we did not
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