Practice Management Toolkit: The Path to a Preventive Practice

Five Tips for the Path to a Preventive Practice

#1: Patient Education

• Write a script
• Determine which products to recommend for home use

The FIRST one is patient education. This is part of the system. We want to educate every patient about why prevention is important and how it works. I suggest you sit down and actually write a script that will help the team understand the key points you want to make. For example, we want patients to come every six months. For example, we want them to use certain products. We want them to floss. We want them to brush their teeth. What type of floss do we want them to use? What toothpaste should they have? Should they be using a manual brush or a powered brush? These are all questions.

And by the way, think about yourself. What do you use and do we recommend some of that to our own patients? We want them to be as interested in preventive health as we are as dental professionals.