Mastering Collaborative Care: Elevating the Patient Experience with Seamless RDH-Doctor Synergy

Course Description

This comprehensive 1.5-day course is designed for dentists and dental hygienists seeking to streamline collaboration, maximize time management, and elevate the patient experience. With a patient-centered focus, participants will explore practical strategies to enhance co-diagnosis, use intraoral imaging and digital tools to identify and differentiate treatment plans, and create seamless workflows for managing various patient conditions—from healthy to gingivitis to periodontally involved cases.

Through engaging lectures, real-time case reviews, and hands-on workshops, we’ll dive into key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive clinical and business success. This course ensures that doctors and hygienists align their efforts to deliver the highest quality care while enhancing efficiency, reducing stress, and increasing case acceptance.

Learning Objectives

• Optimize Time Management: Discover how to structure a highly efficient clinical day for hygienists that balances exceptional care with smooth transitions, ensuring optimal patient flow and minimizing stress.
• Co-Diagnosis Excellence: Evaluate the art of intraoral imaging, empowering hygienists to identify potential issues early and confidently communicate findings to doctors, creating a seamless co-diagnosis process.
• Differentiating Treatment Needs: Review how to diagnose and treat healthy, gingivitis, and periodontally-involved patients using AAP classifications, digital charting, and diagnostic tools.
•  Leverage Digital Technology: Examine the implementation of advanced intraoral cameras, voice-activated charting, and patient education platforms to improve diagnostic accuracy, patient engagement, and case acceptance.
• KPI Integration: Review critical KPIs that drive practice growth, including reappointment rates, periodontal therapy case acceptance, and hygiene production, and develop actionable strategies to meet these benchmarks.
• Enhance Communication and Case Presentation: Develop effective scripts for doctors and hygienists to enhance patient motivation, improve case presentation, and increase compliance with personalized treatment plans.
• Create a Collaborative Care Model: Align workflows between doctors and hygienists, fostering a teamwork-based culture that increases patient satisfaction and practice efficiency.