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Dental Hygiene Department: Turn Your Biggest Cost Center Into a Profit Powerhouse

Name: Dental Hygiene Department: Turn Your Biggest Cost Center Into a Profit Powerhouse
Uploaded: 2025-04-24T13:00:32+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Gary Kadi
Description: Gary Kadi shows how dental practices can turn hygiene departments from cost centers into profit engines. Seventy-five percent of restorative treatment is…

24 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Gary Kadi shows how dental practices can turn hygiene departments from cost centers into profit engines. Seventy-five percent of restorative treatment is diagnosed in the hygiene chair, but less than 50% gets accepted and scheduled. Better case acceptance and retention from hygiene visits directly boosts practice profitability.

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75% (on average).

Less than 50%.

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I'm going to ask you something that most dentists think they know the answer to, but nine times out of 10, they're wrong. Is your hygiene department a cost center or a cash machine? Because for too many practices, hygiene is just an inefficient department that's really a loss leader, or maybe break even, at best. In fact, on average, 75% of restorative treatment is diagnosed in the hygiene chair, but less than 50% of it is ever actually accepted and scheduled. That's extremely inefficient. And here's the truth. A healthy hygiene department is the engine to your entire practice. It drives production, patient retention, case acceptance, which is really going to be causing profitability. Because if you're doing all of that work getting patients in, doing their exams, diagnosing cases, but not closing it, what you're really leaving on the table is your profit.