When your dental practice is busy with lots of patients always coming and going, your staff takes on a heavy load of work and tries to get everything done as quickly as possible. While focusing on these essential tasks, staff members don’t have as much time to work on improving the dental patient experience.

Practices can use dental office automation to make things easier for staff and allow flexibility to prioritize patient care. With smart dental practice management software, you can automate the time-consuming yet vital tasks that keep patients coming into the office, including appointment reminders and payment requests.

Knowing the benefits dental office automation offers your practice takes you one step closer to improving your patients’ experience and growing your practice.

Speed up the Check-in Process

Digital tools can make patient check-in quick and easy. For example, when using Dental Intelligence Virtual Check-In, patients can notify your office when they arrive without leaving their cars. They can also fill out the necessary paperwork before going to their appointment to avoid spending too much time in the waiting room. 

With Digital Forms, getting patient intake information is as simple as sending a link through email or text to the patient and waiting for them to submit the form. The patient data automatically syncs with your practice management system, eliminating paper forms and tedious data entry.

Stay On Top of Dental Marketing with Ease

Dental marketing is crucial for getting new patients and retaining your existing patients, but organizing campaigns and reaching out to potential patients is a lot of work. Without full-time marketing staff, these tasks eat into the time of dental teams with other important responsibilities to deal with.

Dental office automation software provides a simple solution in the form of pre-made dental marketing templates for social media posts and email campaigns. You can customize the templates to fit your practice and schedule times to send or post your marketing materials. 

You can also use automation tools to save potential patient information when they contact your practice but don’t make an appointment, allowing you to include them in your marketing outreach. When they end up scheduling an appointment, their information automatically saves to your practice management system.

Boost Production with Appointment and Recall Reminders

No-shows create empty pockets in your schedule where the practice misses out on revenue, so having tools in place to prevent these gaps from occurring is crucial for your dental practice’s profitability.

One of the most effective ways to combat no-shows is to use automatic appointment reminders, where you set up a personalized text or email that goes out to the patient a day or two before their scheduled time at the office. You can also send recall messages to past patients who don’t have an appointment on the schedule.

Automated patient reminders save your staff time by eliminating the need to call patients, and they help patients keep up with their oral health.

Improve Patient Experience with Simple Appointment Follow-ups

Many factors affect how well patients understand their conditions and the treatments that you recommend for their dental health. While your practice might not have as much time as you would like to explain everything to patients, you can still find ways to help them see the reasoning behind their dental treatments and costs.

Dental practice management tools include customizable treatment plan templates that dental care providers can fill out and send to patients after their appointments. These plans not only explain the dental treatment but can also automatically calculate the expected payment, including practice fees and discounts. 

Once the patient signs the form, they’ll instantly receive a copy of the signed form for their records. This feature of dental office automation software increases treatment acceptance, builds trust with patients, and enhances the patient experience at your dental practice.

Create More Time for Providing Outstanding Dental Care

Dental Intelligence is a comprehensive practice management solution that includes dental office automation tools for appointment and recall reminders, treatment plans, virtual check-in, and much more. The goals we help dental practices accomplish with our software include boosting production, increasing patient visits, and securing faster payments. 

Whether you offer virtual dental care or are strictly in-office, you can streamline your practice with features that help you get patients through every stage of their appointments without a hitch, from the moment they schedule a time to when they make their payments. 

To find out how to upgrade your dental practice with the innovative Dental Intelligence software, schedule a demo today.