Dental Office Administration Chater 10

1. Mechanics of scheduling (establish a matrix)
2. Art of Scheduling (work with the dental healthcare team and answer a few questions)

* Selecting the Appointment Book
* Units

The most common style is a week at a glance

Division of time segments

*Productivity
The amount of dental treatment that is completed
The amount of money collected

Mechanics of scheduling (which includes selecting the appointment book)

The Art of Scheduling.

*The amount of dental treatment that is completed
*The amount of money collected.

To work with the dental healthcare team and answer a few questions.

To setermine when the dental healthcare team is the most productive.
And how through effective schduling the goals and philosophy of dental practice can be met.

The amount of dental treatment that is completed
The amount of money collected

1. At what time of the day does the dental health care team work smarter and faster?
2. How much time is needed to complete a procedure?
3. Which procedure may require utilization of an expanded function dental assistant?
4. Who will do the scheduling?

Maintain control of the appointment book
Be creative

1. Emergency Patient
2. Afternoon Only Patient
3. Chronically late Patient
4. Canceled Appointment
5. The student who cannot miss school
6. The patient who arrives on the wrong day.
7. Unscheduled Appointments

1. Patents have to wait more than 10 minutes before they are seen by the dentist.
2. There is not enough time complete the treatment.