Do you offer promotions or discounts to new patients or certain groups of patients? For example, 15% off for senior citizens, 25% off for active military or veterans, and so forth. In Dentrix, it’s easy to set up discounts and then apply them in the Ledger where...
One of the overlooked features in the Dentrix Patient Chart is the ability to make chart notations. The Chart Notations feature allows you to “draw” on a patient’s chart! For practices with computers visible to patients in the operatory, you can use chart...
When I worked in a dental practice, we still had paper charts until 2009. This meant we had a ton of treatment sitting in these paper charts that we had to search for manually in order to find patients who were unscheduled. It was an extremely time-consuming process,...
When you create clinical, health history, and other notes in Dentrix, do you encounter words and abbreviations that your office uses, but which the Dentrix Spell Check feature doesn’t recognize? These words may be spelled correctly, but because they aren’t...
The Patient Chart is a visual tool you can use to document a patient’s oral health. Within the chart, certain colors are used to document conditions and diagnoses, previously completed procedures, and treatment-planned procedures. To make this visual tool effective...
One of the most frequently asked questions from practices with multiple doctors and hygiene providers in regards to the Dentrix Appointment Book is, “How can I see which doctor is assigned to the patient for the exam?” Visually in the Appointment Book, the patient...
Things can get busy at the front desk. You have what seems like hundreds of things going on at once—phones ringing, patients checking in and out, and a lot of jumping back and forth in the Appointment Book scheduling and rescheduling appointments. Did you know...
How do you communicate the status of the treatment plan with your team? Does your team know if the patient has accepted treatment? Is the patient okay to do all the treatment this year or is he or she breaking it up over time? Most often the clinical discussion...
It’s the little things that matter. I hear that statement all the time being out in the dental industry working with dental practices. I love it when I teach offices something and their eyes light up because they have learned something that is so simple, but...
Have you had a patient in your chair for a 6-month checkup and, while you are perio charting, you notice that the wrong tooth is missing? After further investigation, you realize that the patient was in for an extraction three months ago, but the wrong tooth was set...
