Loupe salespeople and manufacturers, who aren't dentists, don't understand the nuances of comprehensive dental care or the improved landscape of intraoral lighting.
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Category: Efficiency
Plan for dental office expansion
The ability to remain fully open during a future office expansion is critical, and should be carefully considered from the outset. You cannot be expected to shut down your dental office for extended periods of time, or to go prolonged periods without vital elements.
Your dental staff needs a space of their own
Your staff lounge should be a place for your team to relax and just be themselves, and so my team typically locates this space away from the treatment rooms and business areas.
Create space for deploying dental office technology
Productivity requires flexibility. That means the ability to perform any dental procedure, in any room, at any time. However, this does not mean you should stock everything needed to do any procedure in every room all the time.
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.
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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.
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