The 12 Days of Critical Factors: The 9th Day

9.   Hygiene. The hygiene department is the lifeblood of your practice. This is, of course, where you help people get healthy and stay healthy.  And, this is where much of your patient education will take place:  not just education about how to brush and floss, but education about and validation for any diagnosed restorative treatment.  In addition, the hygienist (who usually has a very close bond with patients) can introduce new treatment modalities or begin talking to a patient about new areas of concern since the last visit.

Within this department there are multiple systems and critical factors. A few of these to monitor and evaluate are listed here:

 1. What is the hygiene production: daily, monthly, yearly?

 2. What percentage of the overall production of the practice is coming from hygiene?

 3. Hygiene retention: What percentage of your active patients are participating in your hygiene program?

 4. What percentage of your hygiene production is non-surgical periodontal therapy? (Use your procedure analysis report to obtain accurate information on this critical factor.)

 5. How much restorative treatment is coming out of hygiene?

Want to find out more about what's happening in your hygiene department and how you can give it a boost?  Take the Jameson Hygiene Boost Analysis today.