Dentistry With a Vision: Building a Rewarding Practice and a Balanced Life

by Gerald I. Kendall, Gary S. Wadhwa

Written as a novel, this book models a real-life story about how a dentist improved his practice from a loss to over $2 million in net profit in a few years while simultaneously enhancing the quality of patient care. Dental practitioners and their staff will find this engaging story an easy and fun way to learn how to implement powerful, scientifically based project management principles into their practice. The story provides a relatable way to understand the approach presented, which encourages dentists and their staff to resist complicated management strategies and cost-cutting techniques and instead implement commonsense measures based on an understanding of the cause and effect that occurs when changes are made in a practice.



Dentistry with a Vision will help you

- Identify the few key issues in your practice that are holding you back

- Substantially increase your profits within weeks

- Treat more patients in less time without sacrificing quality of care

- Reduce waste, repeated work, and stress

- Improve relationships among the practitioners, staff, and outside service providers

- Work fewer hours performing more of the kind of treatments you enjoy

- Increase referrals and patient demand for services

- Develop a scheduling system that fulfills the needs of your practice and your patients




Contents
Part The Dilemmas



1. Just Another Day in Dealing with Staff Challenges

2. A Tough Spending Money to Make Money

3. No Time for an Identifying Scheduling Problems

4. The Learning from Mistakes

5. The First Making Investment and Financial Decisions



Part Leverage Toward the Goal

6. The $100,000 Applying New Principles

7. A Difficult Learning Step 1 of the Five Focusing Steps

8. The Aha Grasping the Rest of the Five Focusing Steps



Part Increasing Patient Demand for Services

9. Deal or No Understanding Patients Six Layers of Resistance

10. Harvesting the Beginning the Dental Sales Process

11. Help Hiring a Salesperson

12. A New The Dentist As Constraint



Part Lean, Six Sigma, Scheduling, and Managing People

13. The Working Learning to Be Lean

14. Quality Simplifying Six Sigma

15. Working with the A Lesson in Scheduling

16. Hard Science on the Softer Side of Managing People

17. One Year Profits for a Purpose

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jack Vinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

TOC in a small practice.

I’ve always thought the principles of TOC make a lot of sense for practices of doctors, lawyers, accountants, repair shops, and other professions. This book does a nice job of working in Theory of Constraints, Lean, Six Sigma, and other principles in thinking about growing a practice from never-ending headaches and barely-surviving to a flowing practice with a vision.

This is not simply the five focusing steps, but also some of the logic behind them. And how to bring other principles into play to enable the vision for the business.

And my extended review on my blog: https://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2022/...