If you are like most dentists these days you could use a little more production and a little more predictability with your schedule.
Lets face it with the uncertainty in the world and local economy and the increase of retail dental corporations and dental insurance our practices and our profit margins are being squeezed in multiple directions.
One solution is to run around and see more patients each day. This can work to increase production but will leave you feeling run down, drained and if you are like me, uninspired.
I know this is true because when I was a young dentist right out of school I briefly worked as an associate in a production office where the principle dentist was seeing 3 patients at a time in three different chairs.
This poor dentist would start treatment on one patient, move to the next patient while the first patient was still being worked on and then check on a patient in the third chair before moving back to the first patient to work on that person some more before repeating the circle all over again.
I have to say I felt really bad for him... There was no joy coming into the dental practice because he was literally grinding out each day as a single tooth production dentist. Sure his schedule would include the odd bridge or small veneer case which should have increased his joy and pleasure of dentistry but if you can imagine the stress of trying to produce elegant dentistry with that schedule you will understand why he did not love coming into the practice.