Optimization
When you run a business, whether it’s a shoe store or a dental practice, you wear several hats. There is inventory to keep up with, overhead expenses like utilities, and dentists need to ensure their instruments are properly organized and sterilized. Fortunately, these organizational tools and systems can help with the optimization of dental practices.
Inventory Control System
One of the most common ways to control expenses is to keep track of your supply inventory. Whether you are tracking instruments, gowns, or dental floss, it’s vital to track these and other supplies to ensure you’re not wasting money. The best way to track your inventory is to make sure you have an accurate monthly supply budget. With a budget, you can reduce your overhead percentages and allow your staff to dedicate their time to providing patients with positive experiences.
Instrument Sterilization
Dental practices have protocols they must follow to ensure the safety of their patients. Their safety begins with making sure that the instruments your dentists and hygienists use are clean and sterile. Although your dental practice may have space constraints for a sterilization station, it still needs to follow the protocols for instrument sterilization as set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC. Fortunately, an A-dec sterilization center can streamline this process.
Instrument Management System
Along with keeping instruments sterile, an instrument management system can keep your practice’s instruments organized and reduce inventory losses. It can track the instruments your staff uses from the chair to the sterilization center, so it can reduce replacement costs and help your practice be cost-efficient.
Material Management System
A part of keeping treatment rooms stocked and ready for the next patient is having an effective material management system. With such a system, your dental staff can eliminate wasting time looking for supplies by organizing them in tubs and drawers. Not only does this save money and time, but it reduces frustration as well. I can save you money by optimizing your offices through organizing and tracking supplies and instruments with these management systems.