Dental Practice Management
Dental Practice Management
The Business of Running A Dental Practice
The simple truth is that dental practice management is running a business. Practice owners today are experiencing the complexity of rising costs, stagnant insurance reimbursements, and changing patient expectations. Tighter profit margins call for tighter operational practices and greater efficiency.
Hiring a dental practice consultant enables dentists to take on these modern-day challenges head-on. As a business owner, you can utilize dental consultants and begin to develop and implement organizational strategies that make a huge difference to the bottom line in your practice and event in your personal life.
Next Level Consultants is a dental practice management consulting company that specializes in coaching dentists and their teams on dental practice management strategies. We currently support hundreds of dentists every year and continue to grow, proving to be recognized as a top-tier dental consulting firm in the industry.
A Personalized Approach to Dental Practice Management
Leadership & Team Development
We'll help you be a better communicator and excellent listener in your practice! Being a leader in your business means determining what your team or patients want and then providing precisely what they need to achieve the results you're looking for. Ultimately, you'll develop more confidence, and your team will be excited and eager to work their hardest for you as you create that team culture and leadership dynamic.
Operational Efficiency
Dental practice management is working with your team and implementing organized systems that make your team's lives much easier when it comes to scheduling, treatment, and billing. As a result, your team can enjoy the work they're doing on a daily basis. There will be less turnover, and team members won't just be expecting to get paid more. They will actually enjoy the work they are doing! Your patients will also see a difference in how well your team works together. Patients will feel the same joy and excitement that comes from your team's success.
Profitability & Finances
Working with a dental practice consultant increases your bottom line. We can achieve this without spending extra hours at the office or providing a ton of new services you're not excited about. Small tweaks can often lead to significant gains! But let's look at it together and identify where those gains can be made.
Overall Patient Experience
Enhance the patient experience by identifying opportunities to streamline operations, improve communication, and foster a welcoming environment. Work with your team to refine every touchpoint and handoffs throughout the patient journey—from appointment scheduling and check-in processes to treatment delivery and follow-up care. By training staff in patient-centric communication strategies, ensuring seamless transitions between departments, and optimizing office workflows, we can help create a consistent, stress-free experience that builds trust and loyalty.
Hygiene Department Growth
In addition to working with your dental front office team members, Next Level Consultants can also help you with your clinical team. A dental practice management coach can evaluate your back office workflows by looking at how scheduling and procedures are being done. You can start working with a knowledgeable consultant to identify areas for growth in your hygiene department. By doing this, your hygiene department can become more profitable, getting you a higher return on investment on hygienist salaries.
Marketing and Practice Growth Strategies
Work with dental consultants to grow your practice organically. Gain new patients with external marketing, implement best practices to create referrals and word of mouth, social media posts, mailers, postcards, or even in-person events! We explore all marketing strategies that work in your market. We also show you how to track the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns to ensure that dollars spent are making a difference in accumulating new patient growth.
Our Dental Consulting Services
Full Practice Management Coaching
Full practice management dental consulting includes every aspect of running a successful dental practice. It’s a holistic dental consulting approach where we consider every aspect of running a dental practice; from team dynamics, leadership, vision, systems and operations, HR, billing, collections, overhead costs, financials, key indicators on performance, metrics, and more…
We work with doctors and their teams to find the root cause of what’s holding them back. Most importantly, we want to partner with you and develop a plan of action, implementing best practices that will move the needle for the long term. We can work with you and your team in various ways that best suit your needs, including in-office visits, one-on-one phone calls, and remote conferencing.
Dental Front Office Training
Our dental front office training is a separate dental consulting track focusing on your front office. In this program we look at efficiency and accountability. Ultimately we want to help your team become the best version of themselves. Often, offices haven’t laid a successful foundation that sets their team up for success.
We often find team members come and go, piecing together “best practices” learned from previous offices. Alternatively, they may cling to outdated and inefficient methods. We aim to examine everything from insurance verification and processing to fee schedules, claims submissions and tracking, accounts receivable, patient intake, scheduling, follow-ups, and more…
Dental Hygiene Growth Program
The dental hygienist consulting program is designed to ignite a renewed sense of empowerment in your hygienists. We work with them to truly understand the value they hold and how they can best support you, the doctor, as well as the patient base. We will uncover ways to make procedures more efficient. We train hygienists on new technologies such as lasers and ultrasonic scalers. We also work in-depth on treatment presentation and patient communication, including education tools and techniques, using scripts, visual aids, and technology, and more…
Our hygiene consulting growth program is geared toward inspiring growth and development in your practice and developing a team with leadership and partnership within the practice. We want your hygiene department to find a renewed sense of passion for dentistry while obtaining the tools and confidence to boost growth in your dental practice!
Clear Aligner Implementation
Whether you already have clear aligners in your practice or you're thinking about adding it as a new service in your practice, our clear aligner program is designed to boost you and your team’s confidence, maximize positive patient treatment outcomes, and minimize the amount of time on treatments, improving revenue!
An ortho specialized dental consultant will help you implement a system where we work one-on-one with your team members and doctors, diagnosing and presenting treatment. We also work with team members in the front office to identify coverage and benefits. Our goal is to give you and your team the tools necessary to sell and treat ortho cases successfully and confidently on a continual basis.
Peer to Peer - Mastermind Groups
Our peer-to-peer mastermind group for dentists offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded doctors in a collaborative and supportive environment. This program fosters a constructive and safe space for sharing issues, experiences, and setbacks, tackling those challenges head-on with supportive mentors and partners who care.
Lead by a skilled dental coach and facilitator, our groups build upon a trusted and confidential space where solutions, goal setting, and partnerships form. Doctors encourage and hold each other accountable, producing real-life results and progress. By leveraging this open and honest space of industry expertise and encouragement, dentists have the enormous benefit of unlocking mental blocks, elevating their practices, and achieving long-term success!
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