Season 5: Episode 114: Efficiency Over Perfection: The Front Office Problem Every Dental Practice Is Ignoring

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Sarah Beth Herman discusses the operational challenges faced by dental practices due to unrealistic expectations of perfection from front office teams.

Send us Fan Mail Host Sarah Beth Herman argues that dentistry’s biggest operational misunderstanding is expecting perfection from front office teams in systems not designed for it, creating stress, frustration, and lost profitability. She says dentistry has a structure problem: the front office becomes a catchall for phones, patients, insurance verification, claims, payments, aging follow-up, scheduling, and more, which crowds out revenue-producing work like answering new patient calls, sched...

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Host: Sarah Beth Herman

Topics covered

• efficiency
• dental practice
• front office
• operational misunderstanding
• profitability
• stress management

Keywords

• dental practice
• front office
• efficiency
• profitability
• operational misunderstanding
• stress
• scheduling

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