The Easy Dental Blog
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Questions To Ask When Scheduling An Emergency Appointment
Dental emergencies are always going to happen. How we handle scheduling those patients can dictate the entire day for the office. For example, I visited an office recently where the doctor had four patients scheduled back to back for an emergency exam and X-ray. He...
Scheduling Patients with Outstanding Treatment – Beat the End of Year Rush
Now that we’re headed into fall, it gets me thinking about all the things that need to be done at the office before towards the end of the year. There’s always a push at the end of the year for those patients who want to get treatment done that the doctor diagnosed...
Two Ways to Declutter Your Easy Dental Database
My neighborhood had a community yard sale recently and it got me thinking about de-cluttering. In our homes we tend to collect clutter over time, and we also do it in our Easy Dental database. The problem with clutter in your Easy Dental database is that it can cause...
Minimizing Holes in the Schedule
Unfortunately, patient cancellations are a fact of life in every dental office. It’s not unusual for an office manager to get messages from patients over the weekend wanting to cancel their appointments for Monday. It would be nice if there was list of patients...
Adding an Employer to Easy Dental and Assigning it to a Patient
In Easy Dental, you can compile and maintain a database of employers which can be assigned to patients. That way, you only have to enter an employer’s information once, and then simply assign it to patients as needed. Before entering a new employer’s information in...
Schedule Customizations to help Maximize Production
Learn the importance of these behind-the-scenes settings, and how setting them up properly can boost production in your practice. Easy Dental allows you to customize the Schedule module to fit the needs of your practice and provider schedules. It’s important to...
New Lessons added to Easy Dental Essentials!
ONLINE LESSONS WITH VIDEO TUTORIALS TO HELP YOUR TEAM LEARN THE BASICS OF YOUR EASY DENTAL SOFTWARE. Do you have a new team member in your practice that needs to learn Easy Dental? Are you looking for a way to get them up to speed quickly, without assigning your...
3 Pitfalls To Avoid When Starting a New Dental Practice
For new dentists, the road ahead seems paved with success. You’ve finished school and are about to open your new dental practice. And because you’re up to date on the latest procedures and technology, what could go wrong? Even with all the knowledge you have, your...
Editing and Updating Allergies in ePrescribe
Easy Dental ePrescribe stores a patient's allergies and resulting sensitivities (reactions or intolerances) that you have entered for them. However, there may be times when you'll need to edit a patient's allergies. For example, a patient may no longer be allergic to...
How to Streamline In-Office and Patient Communications
In-office and patient communications can be challenging and stressful. They can also significantly reduce your dental practice’s productivity and quality when not done right. Think about all of the lines of communication such as reminding patients of appointments,...
eClaims Help You Get Paid Quicker and Easier
Every dental practice needs to get paid quickly and without headache. By using electronic claims, or eClaims, you can help your practice staff stop chasing that never-ending paper trail. Technology has brought us so many ways to work smarter instead of harder. Why not...
Effectively Manage Your Insurance Process
Approximately 187 million Americans, or 60 percent of the population, have dental benefits. This means that the majority of your patients need insurance to help pay for their treatments—and it also means they need your dental office to file their insurance claims and...
Editing Medical Diagnoses in ePrescribe
Once you've entered and saved a patient's medical diagnosis in ePrescribe, you may need to update it later. While you cannot remove a diagnosis as it remains part of the patient's medical record, you can inactivate it or mark it as entered in error (EIE) — so it no...
A Few Thoughts on Patient Retention
Retaining patients in your dental practice is just as important as acquiring new patients. Think about all the effort you put into acquiring new patients through numerous marketing strategies and by becoming contracted with insurance companies. To maintain and grow...
Entering Medical Diagnoses into ePrescribe
Easy Dental ePrescribe automates the process of writing and electronically transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies while also helping to detect drugs that might aggravate your patients’ medical diagnoses. For instance, if you know that a patient has had a stroke or...
Deleting Finance Charges
Easy Dental’s Month End menu offers a convenient way to apply finance charges to accounts. But be careful, applying finance charges incorrectly can cause errant or undesired charges to be applied to accounts. When you discover that finance charges have been...
More Information At your Fingertips with The Expandable Patient Banner
Get to know your patients better using the Patient Banner, which can now be expanded to show even more details without having to open additional modules. By now you have come to recognize the value of the Easy Dental Patient Banner. No matter where you are working...
Hiring a New Team Member
Many offices all over the country are having a difficult time finding new team members. There is a high demand for qualified dental office employees. Are you currently looking to fill an open position in your office? Consider posting your employment opportunity...
Remote Access or Virtual Private Network: What’s Better for Your Dental Practice?
Discover what your dental practice needs in order for employees to work remotely while still observing HIPAA regulations. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a marked shift in dentistry. Just over a year ago, the ADA recommended that dental practices postpone...
Easy Dental Essentials: A New Way to Build Your Easy Dental Skills
Online lessons with video tutorials to help your team learn the basics of your Easy Dental software. Do you have a new team member in your practice that needs to learn Easy Dental? Are you looking for a way to get them up to speed quickly, without assigning your...
Route Slips or Patient Visit Forms? Which Is Right For Your Office?
The type of information you want to see about your patients, and whether you want to customize that information, will determine which form your office should use. Offices that are “paperless” can still require some paper. In Easy Dental, you have two different paper...
Scheduling Events for Operatories
Using the Schedule Event feature, you can close individual operatories and block out time in the Schedule for things like staff meetings, vacation schedules, or operatory repairs without having to create "fake" appointments. To create an event: Open the Schedule and...
Hiding a patient on the Treatment Manager list
The Easy Dental Treatment Manager is an interactive tool that allows you to generate a list of patients with outstanding treatment plans. You can use this list to contact patients and encourage them to schedule an appointment.As you are contacting patients using the...
What’s the Difference?
Are you curious what the charges for a day would have been if everything had been charged out at your full office fee schedule? For example, when your office is contracted with an insurance plan, you probably post the Account's lower insurance fee. But what is the...
Adding Surface/Quadrant Information to Explosion Codes
During the course of a single day, you routinely use procedure codes that require additional tooth information (such as surfaces, quadrants, etc). Do you get tired of entering this same information every time you post a procedure? Easy Dental allows you to create...
Closing the Office For Holidays
Does your office close for half a day before major holidays? And how do you set up your Schedule calendar to reflect this? When you need to close the office for holidays, instead of scheduling fake appointments for every operatory in the Schedule, the best thing to do...
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Questions To Ask When Scheduling An Emergency Appointment
Dental emergencies are always going to happen. How we handle scheduling those patients can dictate the entire day for the office. For example, I visited an office recently where the doctor had four patients scheduled back to back for an emergency exam and X-ray. He...
