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Keep the dentist near the treatment rooms
In your dental office floor plan, it’s important that the doctor’s office is in an area that can be private when needed, but not so far away that the dentist loses valuable connection to patients and staff, and the flow of everyday activity. This combination is actually pretty difficult to accomplish in many layouts.
What Are The Best Intraoral Cameras For Dentistry?
The most commonly cited barrier to entry of incorporating intraoral cameras into your dental office is the cost. This can be quickly offset based on the increased production and collection potential from better diagnosis, documentation, and case acceptance.
Create A Centralized Hub For Dental Office Clinical Support
Your clients aren’t paying you to run back and forth hunting for rarely used supplies. And trying to stock every room (once one grows beyond three primary doctor rooms) is an exercise in futility.
How To Reduce Noise Between Dental Treatment Rooms
Depending on your patient’s level of apprehension, the sounds of a dental office can range from distracting to terrifying. Controlling how sound travels is critical to patient comfort – and a relaxed patient is easier to work on, and is more likely to accept treatment.
The Front Desk sets the tone for the dental patient experience
Let’s start the discussion about how to make sure you get your Front Desk design right the first time.
Make the entrance to your dental office easy to identify
A clearly identifiable dental office entrance increases the likelihood that your patients will arrive at the front desk in a good state-of-mind and receptive to treatment.
Traversing Dental Patient Chairs
So here’s the difference that the simple addition of traversing brings – and if you haven’t seen it you probably won’t believe it. If your chair traverses, you gain almost a foot at the toe of your room from the chair mechanism itself … and because of the flexibility of the chair placement, you actually get an additional 1/2 foot of in-room placement.
Our Own Thriving Dental Practice Serves as Idea Center and Test Facility
A major aspect of the working relationship between Design Ergonomics and Perfect Smiles is the opportunity to test new equipment designs in a working dental environment.
Making A Dental Treatment Room Great For Consultation
Have you ever been seated in a large restaurant with your back to the space and your face to the wall? It doesn’t feel great. That’s why restaurants commonly have four person tables set against the wall with patrons on either side so that no one person is forced to have their back to the main body of the space. On the other hand, further to the center of this dining room are circular tables with patrons facing in all directions, and these are not at all problematic. Clearly, placement in a room matters.
Solving Staffing Shortages in Dentistry
The reality is clear. We are very upset by staffing shortages. But over 90% of the dental workforce remains. They are not hostages … and neither are you. They have a choice of where to work. Your goal is to have them choose you. If you want the best team, become the best office with the highest customer satisfaction and the highest productivity.
Automation and Robotics in the Dental Industry and at Design Ergonomics
“I knew that in order to compete with billion-dollar companies, I was going to have to be leaner, faster, and smarter in everything that we did,” Dr. David Ahearn, DDS says. “But I also felt that there was a bigger issue at hand, which was that if we were going to create jobs in our community, I wanted to do everything I could to make them be the best jobs possible.”
Four Steri-Center Options For Your Dental Practice
Our industry made up the name “Steri-Center” and sold a bunch of cabinet conglomerations by convincing people that they were borderline magical. Depending on your type of practice and goals, we’ll show you choices from super cheap and…
Building Efficiency at Westgate Dental Creates a World of Opportunities for Husband and Wife Team
When Dr. Peter Kics started Westgate Dental Care in Arlington Heights, IL he was by himself in a 1,500 square foot space with four operatories. “At the time, I wanted to be able to do as much dentistry as I could for my patients, to…
Why are dental assistants burning out?
One of my biggest worries for dental practices is dental assistant burnout. While many offices are facing a range of staffing issues, I think we’re only just beginning to feel the full depth of this particular employment threat. Much…
Legendary Customer Service at Northwest Dental Group
When Dr. Katie Post acquired Northwest Dental Group in Rochester, MN in 2008, the business was struggling. Overall profit and the number of patients were both declining every year. “When I joined the practice in 2003, I had one or two…
Ed Carey: Building Dental Office Equipment Prototypes and Restoring Vintage Motorcycles
“I’ve known Dave since we were kids and we’ve been friends our entire lives,” Ed Carey, Head Engineer at Design Ergonomics says of his friend Dr. David Ahearn, founder, and CEO of the company. “When we were growing up, we used to hang…
Top Dental Office Design Tips To Make Space Appear Bigger
I’m sure that most of us have seen the selective attention video of counting basketball passes and the gorilla. If you haven’t, why don’t you try it on your team at the dental office. Our brains constantly shorthand data. So what does…
Dental Office Culture Is the Key to Growth at Sala Family Dentistry
In mid-May 2022, Sala Family Dentistry in Reno, NV had its biggest week in more than three decades in business. Then, the 2022 Best of Reno Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Reno Sparks Convention Center. With more than…
How Much Does It Cost To Build A New Dental Office?
So, the first, and perhaps obvious answer to this question is that the dollar amount that your new dental office will cost is likely more than you want to hear! And worse than that, more expensive tomorrow than it was yesterday! But…
How Do I Even Get Started With My Dental Office Design?
As dentists, we’re visual. We have a picture in our minds of what we want our dental office to look like. Or a dream of what we hope that someday it could be. But working on the dream part is actually not the way to start the process…
Chrissy Cambra’s Path to Managing the Research and Development Team at Design Ergonomics
Chrissy Cambra, Research & Development Manager at Design Ergonomics, has enjoyed an eclectic career, which makes her an ideal person to wrangle the people, products, systems, and client needs to coordinate the development of the…
It Takes More Than a Dentist to Make a Dental Office Successful
I began my study of dental office design over 25 years ago when I realized one fundamental thing … that most dentists think that they are the machine that makes a dental office go. Call me a slow learner, but I realized that after 10…
Three Proven Ways to Increase Dental Office Capacity Without Building a New Office
A major theme we’re hearing again and again is how many dental practices are at capacity with ops fully booked every single day. While being super busy is seemingly a good thing for a dental practice, for most being at capacity means…
The Future of Dentistry Discussed by Dr. John Meis and Dr. David Ahearn
The Team Training Institute’s Champions of Dentistry Summit The Design Ergonomics team attended The Team Training Institute’s 17th annual Champions of Dentistry Summit on April 29-30 in San Diego, CA. We joined hundreds of dentists…
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