Practice management &

enhancement
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 There is no competition!!!
• Honesty
• Transparency
• Do not hurry to earn…
• Be reasonable in charges…
• Predict the complication & inform…
• Patient should be given the best possible.
 Remember
“God give me the strength to change I
can & not to try the things I can not
change & the wisdom to know the
difference between them!!!”
• The number of patients today…
• The number of the dental surgeons…
• The number of advancement in dentistry…
• The awareness of the society for dental care…
 Rome was not built in a day!!!
• Listen to the patients…
• Your Mercedes is confirmed!!!
• Relax & enjoy your work & earning.
• Shake hands with the relatives & the pt.
• Keep good magazines in the waiting room.
• Do not count money in the front of the patient.
 The one who looses the head
looses the game!!!
• Never get angry with
– the staff…
– the patients…
– the laboratory…
• The staff decides your impression!!!
• The way you talk with the patients the staff
will talk in the same manner!!
• Put rubber stamp in the magazines and
allow the patients to take if they like!
 Compete within!!!
• Be your own competitor…
• Improve daily…
• Have financial calculations in 10 years
period…
• Treat the heart of the patient not only the
smile!!
• Patient should be happy meeting you!!
Our profession is still a noble one!!
• All are good people…
• Be noble to the patients…
• Understand the limitation of our profession
• Concentrate on the honest opinion &
treatment…
• Say no if you do not understand the
disease…
• We are not suppose to treat all the
diseases!!
 Pain is synonymous with
dentistry!!!
• Patient will not remember
– Your charges
– The hair on your head
– the interior of your clinic
– Timings or appointments
– The beauty of your receptionist
– Time you took for the treatment
• He only remembers the pain given to him
– During / after treatment!!!
Keep the account of the number of
patients not money
• Your goal is not earning money…
• Your goal is treating the patients…
• If your money is important patients money
is also important…
• Dream of the number of patients & type of
treatment you can offer to them…
• You may not have what the patient wants
but you will always have what he needs!!
 Feel happy!!!
• You are a dental surgeon…
– It is one of the prosperous profession!
– It is a procedure based science!!!
– Patient cannot bite properly
– There is severe pain…
– Aesthetics
 Always talk your heart!!
• Fix your charges!
• Do not change for NRIs!
• Remember your charges!
• Remember the patient’s faces!
• Talk something personal!
– Good dress / shirt
– If sad ask about the reason!
– Acknowledge the person who referred!
Involve in the medical associations!
• Contact the family physicians!
• In any medically compromised patient call
the involved physician or super specialist!
• The practice development is a slow
process…
• Even rotary or lions club can help!!
• Be active in your own community or any
other musical or common interest groups.
 Give your responsibility to GOD!!
• You do your job!
• Do not expect miracles!
• Very attractive file with foreign
photographs increases the doubt in
patients mind about your charges!!!
• He has made you a dental surgeon it is his
responsibility to send you patients…
• Practice is the most exiting thing on earth!!
 Financial management
• Open a public provident fund account
• File your income tax return regularly
• Show 70 % white from day one
– Later show 100%
• Invest in stock market, mutual funds, gold
silver diamond regularly…
– These are investments not our profession!
• Change the interior every 4-5 years
– This is the best investment!!!
 Practice enhancers
• Sterilization & asepsis
• Local anaesthesia
• Minimum medicine
• Standard & none fluctuating charges
• Feel genuine sorry if you give pain to the
patient
• Be concern with the complains of the
patients
Fears in oral surgery
Your best friend
 Hard Tissue

• Chin
• Tuberocity
• Nasal Cavity
• Incisive Nerve
• Maxillary Sinus
• Greater Palatine Nerve
• Lower Border Of The Mandible
• Inferior Alveolar Nerve & Mental Nerve
 Surgical Anatomy of Mandible / Maxilla

• tmj movements...
• attached gingiva...
• frenum attachment...
• the mucoperiostium...
• direction of the bone...
• occlusal classification...
• centric relation / centric occlusion
 Soft Tissue
• Parotid Duct
• Facial Artery
• Labial Artery
• Greater palatine artery
• Incisive canal
• Mental Nerve
• Lingual Nerve
• Lingual Artery
• Submandibular Duct