Why choose curve dental?
With Curve Dental managing insurance becomes much more manageable. Effective Clinical Reports. Handy treatment plan reports will help zero in on unscheduled treatment plans, which will boost your bottom line. Accurate Financial Reports.
What should a dentist know about production adjustments?
The dentist should always have a handle on the amount and type of production adjustments made in the practice. You want to pay particular attention to the write-downs. Make it a habit to ask frequent questions of your front desk staff regarding adjustments.
What percentage of a dentist’s production should be cancelled?
This should be about 35% of the day’s production. Many times we will hear from a dentist that they have a high no-show or cancellation rate. Often, upon investigation, we will find no real statistics but rather a feeling by doctor or staff.
How do you chart a dental restoration?
Select the procedure, then select the tooth and you're done. Charts designed for restorations to be painted right on the tooth so you can chart a multiple-surface restoration, including a MOD, in seconds. and logically. Everything is sorted by procedure code, provider, date, and clinic.
Why is curve hero charting important?
Curve Hero’s clear dental charting helps patients see themselves in the story of their procedure, and why the next treatment and timing is a necessary path to wellness. It also helps parents understand and make decisions about further treatment for their children.
How to access patient history?
Easy access to patient history 1 Charting history is stored simply and logically 2 Everything is sorted by procedure code, provider, date, and clinic
Key Reporting Benefits
Countless system reports with data available as far back as you want. Customize away!
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Game-changing information to chew on for your dental practice
Curve Dental Business Intelligence (BI) combines our standard dental reports, custom report functionality, and myPractice™ dashboards to provide actionable insights into the most important financial and operational aspects of your dental practice. Use Curve Dental BI to maximize your practice efficiency, profitability, and patient experience.
Gain insight into key performance indicators
Dashboards display 6 key performance indicators (AR, Collections, Production, New Patients, Recare, and Treatment Plan Value) to summarize your practice’s overall performance.
Easily access financial trends
Operational dashboards are grouped into categories to make it easier to navigate through your practice’s financial trends.
Key Scheduling Features
With an easy to use, always visible navigation column, access patient data no matter where you are in the system
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How to Determine if Your Dental Practice is Underproducing
In our magazines, we do a Q & A where I answer your practice management questions. I received this question and thought it would be interesting to go over.
Case Acceptance
When we have a client collect $50,000, $20,000, $30,000 more per month (and this is pretty routine) the 30 days following their first MGE Communication and Sales Seminar, what does that tell us?
Hygiene Department
For some reason, a poorly organized, underproducing Hygiene Department is ubiquitous in dentistry. It’s difficult to comprehend why.
Lack of a properly trained Office Manager (OM)
You might not have an office manager. You might have one that is not well-trained or trained at all. And by trained, I mean trained as an executive. We cover this in the article What Exactly IS an Office Manager (And Why You Absolutely Need One!)
Data collected by Sikka Software indicates a small production bump year-over-year
One of the most important numbers for any dental practice to know is exactly how much the dentist is producing on a daily basis. When you consider that the dental practice is a business and the dentist is the highest-paid employee of that business, it’s important that the dentist is producing at a high level.
Figure 1: Dentist net production per hour, 2010–2016
If you’re interested in seeing hygiene net production per hour, check out this link to our article that appeared in a recent RDH eVillage.
What is a good benchmark for a doctor?
A good benchmark is an acceptance ratio of 70% to 90%. One of the key numbers a doctor should track is his or her own production per hour. If your practice accepts discounted fee programs, it is a good idea to calculate both the gross production per hour and the net production per hour.
How many patients should a hygienist see a day?
Number of patients seen each day. The number of patients seen each day by both doctor and hygienist should be monitored. The ideal for the doctor is eight to 12 patients. It is also a good idea to monitor patients who left without scheduling their next appointment.
Should dentists have a handle on production adjustments?
The dentist should always have a handle on the amount and type of production adjustments made in the practice. You want to pay particular attention to the write-downs. Make it a habit to ask frequent questions of your front desk staff regarding adjustments.