Biomaterial Database

Four ways to ensure a successful future for your dental practice. 2004

Roger P Levin

Levin Group.

Practices must concentrate on optimizing their financial performance regardless of what economic conditions prevail. Even with signs of an economic turnaround, the 4 areas of your practice highlighted in this article demand your focus. Levin Group is seeing a nationwide breakdown in many of these 4 areas. Proper planning and organization with the appropriate management structure and systems can avoid these issues and keep your practice operating at maximum productivity and profitability.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010561	Personnel Staffing and Scheduling	The selection, appointing, and scheduling of personnel.	Staffing and Scheduling,Personnel Staffing,Work Schedule,Schedule, Work,Scheduling and Staffing,Staffing, Personnel,Work Schedules
D011215	Practice Management, Dental	The organization and operation of the business aspects of a dental practice.	Dental Practice Management Services,Dental Practice Management,Management, Dental Practice,Practice Management Services, Dental
D003797	Dental Staff	Personnel who provide dental service to patients in an organized facility, institution or agency. This includes those who work in DENTAL FACILITIES but do not provide direct dental care.	Dental Receptionists,Dental Receptionist,Dental Staffs,Receptionist, Dental,Receptionists, Dental,Staff, Dental,Staffs, Dental
D005376	Financial Management	The obtaining and management of funds for institutional needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.	Endowments,Financial Activities,Funds,Activities, Financial,Activity, Financial,Endowment,Financial Activity,Fund,Management, Financial
D005544	Forecasting	The prediction or projection of the nature of future problems or existing conditions based upon the extrapolation or interpretation of existing scientific data or by the application of scientific methodology.	Futurology,Projections and Predictions,Future,Predictions and Projections
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000067	Accounts Payable and Receivable	Short-term debt obligations and assets occurring in the regular course of operational transactions.	Accounts Payable
D013674	Technology, Dental	The field of dentistry involved in procedures for designing and constructing dental appliances. It includes also the application of any technology to the field of dentistry.	Dental Technology