Sort your core and let the chips fall where they may

Practice Plan’s Creative Director, Les Jones, talks about the importance of nailing your fundamental purpose in business. Over the new year, I went away with my wife and a group of friends to the Welsh…

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Strengthening the relationship with your patients

Dental hygienist and management coach, Siobhan Kelleher, takes a look at two techniques that can help you build a stronger relationship with your patients… There are a lot of things that are vitally important to…

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How to deal with complaints

Medenta’s Eleanor Young looks at how to correctly deal with complaints… As a practice you may encounter patients who wish to make a complaint because they are dissatisfied with the service or the treatment they…

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How to have compliant patient finance conversations

Medenta’s Ruth Findlay looks at the right way to talk with patients about patient finance…. When it comes to talking about patient finance, it can be quite daunting for members of the practice team to…

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How to deal with post-agreement queries

Medenta’s Lesley Turner looks at how to deal with a variety of post-patient finance agreement questions… When a patient finance agreement has been signed off, both the practice and the customer may think ‘that’s everything…

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Patient finance substitute applications

Medenta’s Shelley Clegg looks at everything you need to know about ‘substitute applications’… There will be times when, for one reason or another, a patient has their finance application turned down because they haven’t met…

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How to enhance your patient journey with patient finance

Medenta’s Eleanor Young talks about how removing financial barriers and having crucial conversations with patients may lead to a better patient experience and, therefore, an increase in implant treatment uptake… Appealing to new patients Patients…

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How to manage declined applications

Medenta’s Eleanor Young provides some pointers on how to deal with a patient who has just heard the news that their patient finance application has been declined… This can be one of the toughest conversations…

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Why you need to step up your customer service – and how to do it

Richard Scarborough talks to business coach Ashley Latter about the impact of Coronavirus on the demands and needs of patients, and the increasing importance of providing exceptional customer service… Richard: Is good customer service now…

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Lockdown led to a surge in our new Invisalign® patients

Eleanor Young talks to Sam Cook about how their practice saw the number of new Invisalign® enquiries triple during lockdown… When practices were told to close their doors in March, dental teams may well have…

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Why you need to step up your customer service – and how to do it

Richard Scarborough talks to business coach Ashley Latter about the impact of Coronavirus on the demands and needs of patients, and the increasing importance of providing exceptional customer service… Richard: Is good customer service now…

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