What’s Your Practice Bottleneck?
Have you ever heard the term, “The sterilization center is the practice bottleneck”?
Jaime Yanez is the head assistant at By Design Dental and, for the first time in years, she is loving her job. The bottleneck can make patients and staff miserable. It refers to patient flow through the practice and if patient flow slows down, dentistry grinds to a halt…Which then means…
* Patients get frustrated because of delays…
* The doctors become stressed…
* The practice is less profitable…
Making everyone miserable…
But who can blame her for loving her job NOW?
She now works for a practice with flow pattern that’s perfect, operatories that impress patients, doctors who produce large amounts of dentistry and a sterilization center that holds it all together.
How can the counter top for your dirty instruments create disaster? It’s hard to watch a practice never reach its potential and be constantly held back by inefficiencies – but the bottleneck will never happen in your new practice – because you’ll be prepared and you’ll use elements of planning that have worked in all the practices who have best efficiency, staff and patients.