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According to a June 2021 American Dental Association study, more than 80% of dentists looking to hire hygienists and assistants found the process very challenging or extremely challenging.¹ The healthcare industry as a whole struggled to fill staffing needs as nationwide employment shortages plagued these essential organizations. Recent pandemic hits created dental staffing issues such Read More...

During dental school, you dedicated countless hours to studying, hands-on practice, and rigorous exams. Even so, your education doesn’t end when you walk across the stage on graduation day. Instead, your state dentistry board will expect you to pursue additional studies ¹ from your first day on the job until the day you retire. Fortunately, Read More...

Whether you’re a dentist, hygienist, or patient, small talk during dental appointments is a hotly debated topic. How chatty should you be? While some of us are naturally gregarious, others of us may find it hard work to engage in idle conversation, especially with a new patient in our dental office. Introverted dentists, dental hygienists, Read More...

In many cases, making an appointment is the first contact your customers or patients have with you and your company. It is an opportunity for you to show them that you are organized and professional, that you value their time, and that your time is important, and that the appointment should be taken seriously. Moreover, Read More...

We know that recurring production is critical to the health of any dental practice. But do you know how much of your patient base is currently scheduled? For world-class practices, it’s above 80%—that’s some incredible peace of mind! We also know that evaluating your reoccurring production can take a back seat when you’re in a Read More...

It’s not easy getting a dental office up and running on all cylinders. Especially for those dentists who start their practice from scratch, providing top-level services while making a profit is a balancing act that takes years to perfect. However, once a practice finds its groove and establishes a loyal patient base, it’s probably looking Read More...

Multi-location healthcare practices face a unique set of logistical challenges, especially when they’re looking to bring additional offices into their network. It’s frequently these challenges that discourage business owners from trying to expand their practice at all. While there are plenty of problems inherent to growth, lots of them can be mitigated with the right Read More...

Multi-location businesses can allow their offices to be either an asset or a liability. A lack of cohesion sometimes causes a domino effect that ruins an organization. On the other hand, offices that function independently yet cooperatively spur growth and build their brand. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more difficult for individual offices to Read More...

Communication gets clunky for multi-location healthcare practices. That’s especially true for offices that don’t have the right tools for organizing and optimizing inter-office patient communication. While it’s great news when practices are able to expand their operations to new places and new people, there are operational difficulties involved with coordinating between multiple offices. Ensuring that Read More...

For healthcare practices planning on or in the process of expansion, there are a number of communication problems to consider. With the right tools, however, these problems become opportunities for quicker expansion, easier consolidation, and optimal business health. Rapid expansion requires that businesses have the ability to merge data from newly acquired offices. If the Read More...

Multi-location healthcare practices are constantly looking for ways to maximize their efficiency. Training staff on time management can only take offices so far, however. Increasingly, multi-office providers are turning to technological solutions in order to optimize their productivity. Business communication technology has developed in recent decades to offer a number of effective tools for helping Read More...

We sat down with Shannon Nelson, the marketing director at Arkansas Family Dental. The motto at Arkansas Family Dental is to “treat each patient like family,” and Shannon generously shares how this motto has informed the practice’s entire marketing strategy. Out of the 14,000 practices that Weave considers its clients, Arkansas Family Dental is our Read More...