Description:

How is your office doing with treatment plan acceptance? Do you and your team struggle to motivate patients without coming across as a hard sell? Do treatment plans that go unscheduled get sucked into a black hole never to be seen again? This course focuses on a number of strategies to improve treatment plan acceptance that don’t cost a dime and can be implemented immediately. Designed to help you evaluate your treatment planning protocol and make sure you and your team are doing everything possible to help patients realize the value of saying “Yes”, this course will help move your treatment plan acceptance up a notch.

Objectives:

This course is designed to help dental professionals:

1. Evaluate how effective their office’s current systems are regarding treatment plan acceptance.
2. Learn techniques to improve team communication and reinforce treatment recommendations.
3. Develop patient interviewing skills to learn patients’ priorities and attitudes regarding dental treatment.
4. Educate patients about dental treatment.
5. Understand the benefits of offering financing options to patients.

Marilee Sears, RDH has over 15 years experience in the dental field. She is a practicing hygienist and the founder of Integrity in Practice, a consulting company that works with dental offices to enhance patient care and increase practice profits by developing systems in the hygiene department. 

Presented by:  Marilee Sears, RDH
This class is one hour and worth one CE Credit. 

“pinkTooth.net  is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by the AGD for Fellowship, Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 2/1/2009 to 1/31/2012.”

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