Are you happy with where your dental practice is standing these days?
For most dentists, they got into the field in the first place to help patients. If that sounds like you, the hope is you are meeting and even exceeding all your goals.
So, what gives you reason to smile about your practice?
Stay on Top of Your Practice
In doing all you can to keep your practice where it needs to be, here are three reasons you can and should be smiling:
1. Protecting all you worked for – Even if only in the business for a short time, it took you a lot of work to get going. That said make sure you are doing all that is needed to protect it. For instance, having the best disability insurance for dentists is quite important. Such insurance allows you to protect all you have worked for. It is important for you to think about what would happen if you had to miss a large amount of work. That is due to a serious illness or injury. What would happen to your practice in the meantime? Not having protection could render it useless. Unless you have other dentists in the practice to keep things going, your practice could fold. When looking for the right disability insurance plan, be sure to shop around. Compare and contrast policies until you find the one best suited for your practice.
2. Hiring the right people – When your practice is doing well, part of that is because you hired the right people. That said it is important to continue making the right hires as time goes by. Your staff plays a major role in keeping your practice going in the right direction. From the person at the front desk to your hygienists and more keep hiring the best. Patients like to get the best treatment and friendly employees. If you do have to make some more hires due to workers going elsewhere or retirements, take your time. A little time and effort in hiring is better than having to continually put ads out and retrain people.
3. Stay up to speed on dental technology – You also want to be sure you stay up to speed on dental technology. As technology in this industry changes over time, it is important for you to be on top of it. Patients have choices when it comes to who cleans and repairs their teeth. If you become a little too lax in how you go about doing such things, you could end up beginning to see a drop off in patients. Too much of a drop off and you begin to wonder how you can get back to where you were. If using the latest tech, studying up on it online and attending some dental conferences, good. You are doing all the right things.
Given the time and effort you’ve invested in your practice, has it got you smiling these days?
If not, take some time to retool things.
If it is, keep up the good work.
