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Who Should Participate in this Course

- Dentists who are considering building a new office

- Dentists who are thinking of remodeling or renovating an existing office

- Dentists whose facilities don't match their vision of success

Course Objectives



This program is designed to eliminate the confusion and uncertainty dentists face when deciding whether to build, remodel or renovate a dental office.



You will leave this program with a vision for your future practice of dentistry, a thorough education on how best to optimize your facility to achieve that vision, a complete understanding of the economics involved and comprehensive insight on the full scope of your design project from concept to construction.

Participant Objectives

At the completion of this program, you will be able to:

• Create a vision for your practice and decide on the type of facility you need to support that vision
  
  
• Fully understand how to plan the right facility to:
  
  
• Enhance your patients' perceptions of the value of dentistry
  
  
  
• Enhance the pride in every team member concerning their delivery of dentistry
  
  
  
• Improve your lifestyle by capturing unrealized practice value and creating more freedom and choices for you now and in the future
  
  
  
• Impact your retirement planning by increasing the value of the practice and by creating a facility that is more appealing to associates
  
  
  
• Create better patient experiences by matching the excellence of the facility to the excellence of your clinical care
  
  
• Understand the economics of office design including how it will be paid for, the expected return on your investment and how to protect your income and lifestyle throughout the process
  
  
• Determine the optimum number of operatories required to best serve the needs of your patients now and in the future
  
  
• Decide whether investing in practice improvements and enhancements is the right thing to do at this stage of your career and why
  
  
• Understand every aspect of office design including such factors as service delivery, ergonomics, noise abatement, comfort, privacy, staff empowerment, technology acquisition and integration, efficiency and esthetics
  
  
• Determine which professionals you need to involve including architects, contractors, designers, legal experts, supply companies and others, understand their roles and responsibilities and know how to work with them as a coordinated team
  
  
• Go home with adequate information to successfully complete the practice enhancement option that best suits your vision and goals

Bonus Features

• You'll tour our advanced dental facility (The Experience at the Scottsdale Center) that showcases ideal design, ergonomics, technology and organization.
  
  
• You'll take away a roadmap to project success including a comprehensive check-list of all the procedures and processes involved in the entire project. You will also come away with a strategy to communicate office design that maximizes acceptance by new and existing patients.
  
  
• You'll receive a preliminary fee analysis that shows how your fees compare with others in your area and the impact of fee changes on practice profitability. You will also learn a strategy for setting fees at levels that are fair to your patients and practice.