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Dental Hygiene: The Pulse of the Practice
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From Book News, Inc.
Suggests a restructuring of the dental practice that
expands the role of the dental hygienist and increases production. The
author, who is a dental hygienist and health care consultant, offers
guidelines for hiring quality personnel, holding regular staff meetings,
improving the preventive maintenance visit, implementing a periodontal
program, and incorporating block scheduling into the daily routine.Book
News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Info
Primer on the integration of restorative and
preventative dentistry. Provides suggestions on the role of the doctor and
hygienist within dental practice. Topics include commission compensation,
environment, team spirit developing a purpose, productivity, and more.
Bulleted-outline format. DNLM: Oral Hygiene.
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By reading this book you will:
• Understand how empowering the dental hygiene department can positively impact
production.
• Discover optimal strategies for creating or improving a dental hygiene
department through staffing, marketing, customer service, and ethics.
• Develop creative strategies for resolving problems and concerns ranging from
non-compliant patients and under-developed facility design to ineffective case
presentation.
Table of Contents
• Preface by Mark Hartley, Editor, RDH magazine
• Introduction: The Evolution of Dental Hygiene
• Chapter One: In the Beginning
• Chapter Two: Transitions
• Chapter Three: The Pulse of the Pulse of the Practice
• Chapter Four: The Power of Teamwork and Team Spirit
• Chapter Five: Meetings
• Chapter Six: Knowing Your Patients
• Chapter Seven: Empowering the Pulse of the Practice
• Chapter Eight: The Dental Hygienist and the Periodontal Program of Care
• Chapter Nine: Recare, Retention, and the Pulse of the Practice
• Chapter Ten: Scheduling for the Practice and the Pulse of the Practice
• Chapter Eleven: The Pulse of the Practice and Marketing
• Chapter Twelve: New Horizons
About the author
As founder and president of McKane & Associates, Cynthia McKane-Wagester, RDH,
has consulted in more than 600 health care practices. She earned her degree in
Dental Hygiene from the University of Maryland Dental School and an MBA in
Health Administration. Ms. McKane-Wagester shares her insights into how
successful dental practices operate in seminars and workshops nationally, and in
articles published in RDH Magazine, Access Magazine, and other nationally
recognized journals.
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