Shownotes
Do your patients value and trust what you're providing? There's an easy way for you to find out! In this episode, Kirk Behrendt brings back Miranda Beeson, ACT’s director of education, to share a metric that shows how many patients are truly connected to your practice and what to do if your numbers are dwindling. To learn the low-cost way to boost your active patient and active hygiene patient count, listen to Episode 943 of The Best Practices Show!
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Main Takeaways:
- Use value-building language when re-appointing patients.
- Create a reactivation system or patients going inactive system.
- Actively recapture inactive family members of your active patients.
- Over 85% of your patients should be re-appointed for their next hygiene visit.
- Always re-appoint patients for their next hygiene visit before they leave your practice.
- Your hygiene re-appointment shouldn't be 100%. Free up patients that aren't a good fit.
Snippets:
0:00 Introduction.
2:36 Hygiene re-appointment percentage, explained.
6:12 Why this is an important topic.
10:24 Ways to impact this metric.
16:37 ACT’s BPA.
Miranda Beeson, MS, BSDH Bio:
Miranda Beeson has over 25 years of clinical dental hygiene, front office, practice administration, and speaking experience. She is enthusiastic about communication and loves helping others find the power that words can bring to their patient interactions and practice dynamics. As a Lead Practice Coach, she is driven to create opportunities to find value in experiences and cultivate new approaches.
Miranda graduated from Old Dominion University, and enjoys spending time with her husband, Chuck, and her children, Trent, Mallory, and Cassidy. Family time is the best time, and is often spent on a golf course, a volleyball court, or spending the day boating at the beach.
