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Practice Management Toolkit: The Path to a Preventive Practice
Five Tips for the Path to a Preventive Practice
#2: Prevention
NUMBER TWO (2) is prevention. Put the preventive program in place and monitor it. Let’s check and see how our patients are doing. What do they look like six months later. Many patients don’t follow all the recommendations for oral home care. And many patients also follow the home care, but at the same time they don’t get the same results because they’re not doing it properly. So again, as I said earlier, think of this as an evolution, and an evolution means that we gradually add education and knowledge and skills to help the patient over time become better and better at prevention. There’s no question that a healthier mouth means a healthier life. And patients will appreciate this. They will tell others. They will bring their families. They will refer.
