Perio/Hygiene Mastery - Currently, there is a widening divide between hygienists and dentists in terms of wages and expectations. This does not need to exist. It is possible to have highly compensated hygienists that easily earn their desired incomes. However, it does take the entire team to make this process effective.

Learn how to ethically increase hygiene profitability, stop losing patients with perio concerns, manage the entire process efficiently, achieve adequate insurance reimbursement, and have a team that is well motivated to run with it.

Building and maintaining a solid hygiene department helps both patients and the office! This course will teach you evidence-based hygiene and periodontal practices, but also communication methods to increase patient acceptance and insurance management to achieve correct reimbursement. Attendees will learn how to treat every patient comprehensively, improving productivity and rewarding for both the teams and dentists.

Learning Objectives

• Educate the entire team to understand and be able to communicate periodontal and systemic problems to patients.

• Increase hygiene production without decreasing standard appointment times.

• Empower your hygiene team to be the prevention specialists they can be.

• Apply proven case presentation techniques for patient acceptance.

• Establish consistent protocols for patient care management.

• Fully understand proper insurance coding and documentation.

• Build mutual respect between hygienists and dentists.