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How Healthy is Your Dental Practice?

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Get a Free evaluation with the Vital Signs Test...

Please complete the following on-line questionnaire for a free evaluation. When completed, click the DIAGNOSIS button at the bottom to submit your evaluation. This 20-point checklist will evaluate the health of your dental practice.

We will email you your results. We do not ask for any contact information other than an email address to send the results. All results are confidential.


FREE Dental Practice Fitness Questionnaire

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TEMPERATURE
1. How many new patients does your practice average each month?
2. Which of the following do you use to market your practice? (select all that apply)
Internal video promos
TV/ radio
Community projects
Staff referral cards
Intra-oral cameras
Magazine ads
Newspaper
Health fairs
We ask for referrals
Yellow pages ad
Occasional, but no definite plans
Other, explain
3. In the past year, how many employees have quit or been let go due to not having the “correct fit” with your practice?
We have a chronic problem finding & keeping a good RD/ CDA/ Front desk
PULSE

4. Please check all of the areas listed below that you feel the office could benefit from having renovated or reorganized:

Internal Image
Dress for Success -- Changing team “look”
Community Image
Phone Etiquette
Five-Star Guest Service (hospitality)
5. Do you have daily huddles?
6. Do you schedule and have Staff Meetings:
7. Does your office partake in Continuing Education?

Do you share new information, cross-train each other and make sure you have common knowledge on all dental concepts?

Yes No

8. Please check all of the areas listed below that you feel the office could benefit from having:

Better verbal skills for “Financial Arrangements”
Tactics that determine the patient’s will to “purchase” the needed Dentistry
More compelling and authentic selling skills
Better verbal skills to enroll the patient to do cosmetics
Better verbal skills to enroll the patient to do periodontal treatment
Better verbal skills to enroll the patient to do restorative work
Ways to get gossip and negative attitudes out of the workplace
Better Team Communication during stressful times
Tips for dealing with odd or difficult patients

9. Which areas is your office accomplished in?

Daily Doctor's Production $5000-$6000
Daily Hygiene Production $100-$1500
Financial Arrangements & Case Acceptance
Personality Typing our Patients
Inter-office Communication
Common Office Philosophy on over-the-counter Dental Products
RESPIRATION
10. What is your average acceptance rate for Restorative Cases?
11. What is your average acceptance rate for Root Planing Cases?

How many Root Planning appointments do you average per day per week

12. What is your average monthly collection rate?
13. Do you offer a Pre-Payment option?
Yes No
14. Is every team member (excluding the Doctor), comfortable with presenting Financial Arrangements and collecting money?
Yes No
15 . What is your yearly gross Production?
(If you like to keep this confidential, please do not answer this question.)
16. Do you accept PPOs? Yes No
17. Do you accept HMOs? Yes No
HEART RATE
18. In the past year has your office participated in any of the following areas of study?
(check all that apply)
OSHA Compliance & Update
Target Marketing/Attracting more good patients
Goal Setting
Better Case Presentations
Chart Documentation
Insurance Updates
HIPAA Compliance
Improving Patient Relations
LVI, Pankey, Nash Dawson
Other
19. How many cancellations do you have on average in your daily schedule?
In Hygiene Schedule?
In DDS Schedule?
How many of these do you recover
(fill the lost time)?
20. Do you routinely use the following:
Informed Consent Forms Yes No
sometimes
Medical History Updates (1x/year) Yes No
sometimes
HIPAA Clearance Forms Yes No
sometimes
OSHA Weekly/Monthly & Yearly Compliance Yes No
sometimes
Financial Arrangement (signed) Form Yes No
sometimes
Financing Options (i.e. Dental Fee Plan) Yes No
sometimes
Phased Treatment Tracking Form Yes No
sometimes
Hygiene Tracking System Yes No
sometimes
Recare System Yes No
sometimes
Have you ever worked with a Practice Management Company? Yes No
If so, name of organization
Do you feel you are making enough money? Yes No
Do you feel you are maximizing your use of time? Yes No
Do you have enough time off from the practice? Yes No

 

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