Dental Practice Management

The industry standard for periodontal procedures is between 30-35% of hygiene production. Periodontal maintenance (D4910), of course, follows SRPs. It is not preventive. It is after-care.  However sometimes patients are billed for a prophy (D1110) when in fact what they got was a D4910 or some other after-care treatment. If this is happening in your practice there is likely a significant loss of production. Sometimes this occurs as that’s the “way it’s always been done” or because the hygienist and/or front desk person do not know how to comfortably explain the differences in the treatments so they opt for the path of...

Here is a quick formula I use in my dental consulting to determine how efficient your hygienists are: 1. Take active patients and multiply by two (go back 1.5 to 2 years for active patient count).  Example: 2000 active patients x 2 = 4000 possible hygiene visits. 2. Run the code in the software for number of cleanings done in the last year.  Example Result: 2000 3. Run a report on the code for comprehensive exams in the last 12 months. This gives a true number of new dental patients as it eliminates limited exams that are emergency exams.  Example: 200...