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You may have already discovered the wonders that having the Practice Optimizer from Sikka Software can bring to your practice. However, did you know that there’s another way to know more about how your animal hospital is currently doing as well as what direction it’s heading each month? Practice Mobilizer from Sikka Software gives you an integrated suite of tools offering full control of your practice on your mobile device. Do you want to know how collections are doing at this very moment? You can check. Do you want to know if your first client of the day is running late? Now you can, right from the convenience of your phone.
Scaling and root planing (SRP) is one of the dental procedures that often raises questions in the minds of patients.
Is this going to hurt? Why do I need this? Why didn’t flossing that one time 30 minutes before I came into the dental practice today prevent this? These are just some of the questions you may hear and that your patients might be thinking.
But are these questions keeping patients from accepting the treatment? Are these questions and the insurance scenarios that go along with it keeping hygienists from being fully confident in the SRP discussion with their patients?
Check out our webinar featuring dental expert Kevin Henry as he speaks with Michiel Allessie, certified Sleep Dentist and founder and CEO of Sleep.ai, about new technologies and advances you can offer to your patients to help with their snoring or grinding at night. Click here to watch the recording.
Check out our webinar featuring industry expert Kevin Henry and guest Dayna Johnson for a discussion on improving practice cash flow. They also discuss recent accounts receivable and collections trends courtesy of Sikka Software’s robust data. Click here to watch the recording.
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One of the most important numbers for any dental practice to know is exactly how much the dentist is producing on a daily basis. When you consider that the dental practice is a business and the dentist is the highest-paid employee of that business, it’s important that the dentist is producing at a high level.
Using data from more than 12,500 dental practices compiled by Sikka Software, we have a good indication of how a dentist’s production in the average dental practice is looking. We’ve taken the average over the last seven years and put the numbers below.
With April set aside as Oral Cancer Awareness Month, it seemed like a good time to see how many oral cancer screenings are happening in dental practices each month.
Using data collected by Sikka Software from more than 12,500 dental practices from around the United States, it’s heartening to see that more oral cancer examinations are happening in dental practices each month. However, it’s also a bit head-shaking that the numbers are that low.
In terms of pre-diagnostic oral cancer tests administered by the dental team, here are the numbers per month:
So how many hours do you work in a month? Have you ever stopped to think about it? If you’re anything like your colleagues around the country, you’re putting in more time in the practice now than you were when the decade began.
After poring through the data collected by Sikka Software from more than 12,500 dental practices from around the United States, it’s interesting to see how things have changed in just a few short years.
Take a look at the numbers below
Doctor hours worked per month
Hygienist hours worked per month
So how many of your adult patients accept fluoride treatment? The answer could depend on a number of things. However, we have an average for you to know and judge how you and your practice compare to other practices around the country.
Take a look at the numbers below, gathered by Sikka Software from more than 12,500 dental practices across the United States. They tell how many adult patients per month are receiving fluoride treatments today and where those numbers have been since 2010.
Adult patients receiving fluoride per month:
It’s always interesting to go back and look at statistical trends, not only to gain some historical perspective but also to see how your practice is doing in comparison to the rest of the country.
Using data from the massive library of information at Sikka Software, I went back and looked at the trend of patients paying cash to a practice from 2010-2016. Using data gathered from more than 10,000 dental practices throughout the United States, the numbers revealed a fascinating trend.
The average number of patients paying cash versus using insurance plummeted in the seven-year window. With that, so did the overall percentage of patients paying cash versus using some form of insurance.