Boost profit margins and maximize the efficiency of your dental practice with Efficiency Training.
Increase your productivity and decrease your headaches
Does it ever feel like more time is spent cleaning, sterilizing, and restocking than doing actual dentistry? Our training program identifies and remedies inefficient workflows so you and your staff can focus on what's important: providing excellent patient care.
Symptoms of an inefficient practice include:
When is the last time you had clear counter space?
Efficiency Training is a comprehensive examination and restructuring of your dental office inventory, resupply, and deployment systems. Transform your dental practice into a high-performance office by eliminating wasteful (and stressful) processes.
We’re so confident in our ability to make practices more efficient and productive that we guarantee the results!
Organize your practice to maximize your productivity
Solutions tailored for your practice
Every practice is different, and there is no cookie-cutter approach to optimizing a dental office. That is why every training starts with an in-depth evaluation of your current practice. This lays the groundwork for improving material organization, consolidation, and deployment, reducing room turnaround and operatory setup time.
How it works
Efficiency Assessment
Every training starts with an in-depth efficiency assessment of your current practice. We look at every aspect of your practice, from operatory organization to resupply and everything in between.
Custom Gameplan
Together, we come up with a plan of action that works best for you and your team. Any equipment or materials needed are shipped to your office.
2-Day Training
Our expert trainer arrives on site and gets to work! This isn't a sit-down lecture: our trainer and your team work together to organize your office and build new systems to optimize your practice.
The best part is, after our trainer leaves, you are completely set up for the next day!
Meet the efficiency experts
Angie Bachman
Heather Hurley
Lauren Hayek
Efficient Practice = Happy Team
Having an efficient practice isn't about making your staff work harder. That will only result in burnout and high turnover. Efficiency Training simplifies and standardizes daily tasks so they take less time and are easier to complete. We create an organized environment that you and your team will love working in.
We Know & Love Dentistry
When you or your team have questions, we have answers. All of our trainers come from a dental background and are familiar with day-to-day operations, materials, and procedures. You can rely on their expertise to optimize your practice and to answer any questions you have along the way.
Hear what doctors are saying
Common Questions
How can I increase my productivity without creating more stress?
Our studies have shown that, even in successful practices, significant time and energy are spent every day on unproductive effort, which delivers no benefit to the patient and no profit to the practice. We have found that careful planning and organization can free up this time and energy, which you can then use to increase your income, spend more time with your family, or could you imagine, play more. Offices frequently experience an immediate 30% increase in productivity once the new workflow is complete. Improvements continue well beyond this level as the operator becomes more adept at the system capabilities, often 2, 3, or even 4 times their existing level of productivity.
How do you measure dental office production?
here are many metrics for office productivity but the two that we would consider most useful are production per patient chair and production per provider hour.
Production per treatment chair (sometimes referenced as production per op) is a useful measure of facility utilization. It is based upon a more industrial measurement that is used by factory managers. It is a very helpful way to look at productivity when facility costs are extremely high as, for example, in high rent locations like Manhattan or San Francisco.
What will increase the apparent production score is primarily hours of operation. Want a big number? Be open seven days a week. Steel mills want to measure this way because you don’t want to ever shut the blast furnaces down! For most dental practices this is simply not the primary problem. Staffing is.
Which leads us to our second method of measurement: Production per Hour, or “PPH”. To determine PPH, simply divide the monthly production of a provider by the number of hours they spent in treatment. This can be done by individual doctors – a helpful metric when bringing on new staff – or aggregated for teams. (Doctors/associates only - keep a separate measurement for Hygiene teams.) We are sad to say that the average PPH of doctors in the US is currently not much above $400. The result of this is lower doctor incomes, longer wait-times for patients, inadequate access to care and a lot of unnecessary waste.
Increasing the PPH of our clients is one of our primary goals. From clinical support to chairside, our systems are engineered to allow you do more dentistry in less time (and with less stress!). PPH numbers of 3 and even 4 times the national average are common for our clients.
How can I prevent staff burnout?
Can you help us with ordering supplies?
Do you offer any guarantees?
Where do you offer training?
Have more questions? Check out our FAQ or feel free to contact us.
Our expert training team is ready to help you.
Over the Shoulder Events
Attend one of our Over the Shoulder Events for an invaluable technical demonstration.
We will demonstrate both the techniques for dramatically increased productivity and show you the office and equipment design elements that make this possible.