--- title: Dental Intelligence Blog description: Helping you intelligently shape the future of your practice. --- # Dental Intelligence Blog - [ALL](https://blog.dentalintel.com/all) - [KPIs](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/kpis) - [Metrics](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/metrics) - [Dentistry](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/dentistry) - [Office Operations](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/office-operations) - [Patient Care](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/patient-care) - [Production](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/production) - [Production Per Visit](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/production-per-visit) - [Dentist appointment](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/dentist-appointment) - [Hygiene](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/hygiene) - [Hygienist](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/hygienist) - [Patient Engagement](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/patient-engagement) - [Profitability](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/profitability) - [Scheduling](https://blog.dentalintel.com/tag/scheduling) Office Operations ### [Establishing Relationships with Your Team that Count](https://blog.dentalintel.com/establishing-relationships-with-your-team-that-count) We all want our practices to have flourishing teams and data to back up all their hard work they are putting in. Learn how Dental Intelligence helps... Justin Benziger Jul 18, 2022 ### [Monitor Leads & Digital Marketing Strategies for Dentists](https://blog.dentalintel.com/monitor-leads-digital-marketing-strategies-for-dentists) To make your practice stand out and rank among the numerous dental websites out there, you must invest in the latest digital marketing strategies. Lamar Hull May 9, 2022 ### [Patient Payments Made (Super!) Easy](https://blog.dentalintel.com/patient-payments-made-super-easy) 70% of patients want to pay their bill via text, but less than 20% of dental practices currently offer this option. Scott Livingston Apr 25, 2022 Scheduling ### [How 71 practices (just like yours) had their best year ever!](https://blog.dentalintel.com/how-71-practices-just-like-yours-had-their-best-year-ever) Build systems and follow them. Show up for and participate in team huddles. Set goals and hold yourself and your team accountable for those goals. Scott Livingston Apr 21, 2022 ### [Dental Intelligence Payments - A Simple Way to Deal With Staffing Shortages](https://blog.dentalintel.com/di.-payments-a-simple-way-to-deal-with-staffing-shortages) Dental Intelligence Payments was built to help you provide more and better dentistry to your patients. Scott Livingston Mar 22, 2022 Metrics ### [Why Hygiene is the MVP💪🏼 of Your Practice](https://blog.dentalintel.com/why-hygiene-is-the-mvp-of-your-practice) The hygienist’s role is central to everything else everyone else does in a practice. Their work makes everything else possible. Scott Livingston Mar 14, 2022 ### [Case Study: Affordable Care - "An Urgency for Action"](https://blog.dentalintel.com/case-study-affordable-care-an-urgency-for-action) Dental Intelligence Online Scheduling enables each of the dental practices to be available 24/7. Patients need help when they need it, and Online... Scott Livingston Feb 22, 2022 ### [Kickoff 2022: Finding Your Work/Life Balance](https://blog.dentalintel.com/kickoff-2022-finding-your-work/life-balance) Establishing healthy patterns and practices can go a long way toward ensuring you can grow professionally and personally. Katie Poulsen Jan 28, 2022 ### [Filling Your Schedule with the Best Patients (pt. 2)](https://blog.dentalintel.com/filling-your-schedule-with-the-best-patients-pt.-2) Growth to me looks like finding the ideal day. The type of procedures you want on the patients you know with people you enjoy. So, it goes back to... Katie Poulsen Nov 12, 2021 ### [Filling Your Schedule with the Best Patients (pt. 1)](https://blog.dentalintel.com/filling-your-schedule-with-the-best-patients-pt.-1) What’s one thing that every single dental practice struggles with? Finding, scheduling, and keeping the patients you want in your chairs is a... Katie Poulsen Nov 12, 2021 ### [Reaching Real Growth in Your Dental Practice](https://blog.dentalintel.com/reaching-real-growth-in-your-dental-practice) If a practice is doing more dentistry, more healthcare is getting done. The two go together. You cannot provide more healthcare without more... Weston Lunsford Nov 2, 2021 ### [Building and Growing a Thriving Dental Practice](https://blog.dentalintel.com/reaching-and-retaining-real-growth-in-a-dental-practice) Dental Intelligence lets us ask what we want out of our work. It’s like having an extra employee telling us what we need to pay attention to. Scott Livingston Sep 16, 2021 ### [Why Office Managers LOVE ❤️ Data](https://blog.dentalintel.com/why-office-managers-love-️-data) "Dental Intelligence has paid for itself 10x over. It’s the best dental practice management tool I’ve ever experienced." Scott Livingston Sep 16, 2021 ### [The Best Way to Increase Production Per Visit](https://blog.dentalintel.com/the-best-way-to-increase-production-per-visit) "Dental Intelligence just allows you to operate much quicker, faster and to adapt if needed. It lets you see everything instantly so you know what... Scott Livingston Sep 14, 2021 ### [5 Compelling Reasons to Implement Online Scheduling in Your Dental Practice](https://blog.dentalintel.com/5-compelling-reasons-to-implement-online-scheduling-in-your-dental-practice) Dental Intelligence Online Scheduling allows patients to schedule appointments at a time that is convenient for them, giving you access to patients... Dr Maria Kunstadter Sep 14, 2021 ### [Two Powerful (and simple!) Ways to Schedule for Success](https://blog.dentalintel.com/two-powerful-and-simple-ways-to-schedule-for-success) The more your scheduler knows and understands the impact of their role and what your production goals are, the more effective they will be. Scott Livingston Sep 13, 2021 ### [Case Study: How to Love Being a Dentist Again](https://blog.dentalintel.com/case-study-how-to-love-being-a-dentist-again) "The day I began using Dental Intelligence was the day I started to get my life back." Scott Livingston Sep 13, 2021 ### [Best Practices from the Top Ten Percent](https://blog.dentalintel.com/best-practices-from-the-top-ten) Is it still possible for a small or solo dental practice to grow and thrive in today’s DSO/Corporate dentistry-focused world? Scott Livingston Sep 13, 2021 ### [Five Ways to (Really) Increase Production Per Visit \[You're gonna ❤️ #2)](https://blog.dentalintel.com/how-to-really-increase-production-per-visit) Increasing Production Per Visit is the most important thing you and your team should be focused on. It's the key to making everything else work. Scott Livingston Sep 8, 2021 ### [Real-time Online Dental Appointment Scheduling is Here!](https://blog.dentalintel.com/real-time-online-dental-appointment-scheduling-is-here) Dental Intelligence Online Scheduling enables each of the dental practices to stay nimble and available to their patients 24/7. Patients need help... Scott Livingston Sep 8, 2021 ### [Case Study: Data + Leadership = Massive Growth](https://blog.dentalintel.com/case-study-data-leadership-massive-growth) “We look at hygiene, collections, production, and the schedule for the day and the rest of the week. It helps us to ask better questions, like ‘What... Scott Livingston Sep 8, 2021 ### [Case Study: Stop Patients From Falling Through the Cracks](https://blog.dentalintel.com/case-study-stop-patients-from-falling-through-the-cracks) By identifying where you are and then developing a system or process for accountability and improvement, inevitably there will be a change in your... Scott Livingston Sep 7, 2021 ### [How to Decrease Your Average AR Days (and master collections!)](https://blog.dentalintel.com/how-to-decrease-your-average-ar-days-and-master-collections) By closely monitoring AR Days, you become sensitive to fluctuations in either direction and can respond accordingly. Scott Livingston Sep 3, 2021 ### [3 Ways to Know You Have a High-Performing Dental Practice](https://blog.dentalintel.com/3-ways-to-know-youre-a-high-performing-practice) High-performing practices don’t typically do anything magical, they just use the tools already at their disposal to track down patients without... Scott Livingston Sep 3, 2021 ### [How to Keep Patients from Falling Through the Cracks](https://blog.dentalintel.com/how-to-keep-patients-from-falling-through-the-cracks) Learn how to use practice data to improve patient retention Curtis Marshall Jun 10, 2021 ### [Finding the Right Patients...Fast!](https://blog.dentalintel.com/finding-the-right-patients...fast) Thousands of practices are now using the Dental Intelligence Patient Finder to find the patients with the most significant treatment cases. Scott Livingston Jun 10, 2021 Profitability ### [The Metrics Every Practice Should Measure](https://blog.dentalintel.com/the-metrics-every-practice-should-measure) What are the most important dental practice metrics? Which KPIs should I be measuring? How can I improve the performance of my dental practice? Chris Toyn Jun 10, 2021