Adelaide, SA

Sep 9, 2009

Learn how to build an effective, successful and integrated hygiene department.

Having a hygienist can be a nightmare or a dream. This one day course incorporates all the latest systems and skills necessary for running your hygiene department.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

Create systems

• Ensuring patients request to see the hygienist
• Maximising the value of the periodic hygiene visit
• Calculating the number of hygiene days
• Aligning dentist and hygienist philosophies
• Introducing a new hygienist into the practice

Implement procedures

• Increasing patient participation in the active maintenance program
• Minimising cancellations
• Synchronising the dentist/hygienist schedule

Communicate

• Motivating patients to return regularly
• Ensuring the entire team can support the hygienist and raise their profile in the patients’ eyes
• Ensuring that the hygienist reinforces the dentists’ treatment plans without pressure

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Prime helps me understand how to get my patients to accept hygiene without selling or telling them what to do... It’s a great new way to practice the hygiene profession.”
S. Bing, Wellington, NZ

“It was very useful and a must for the dentist and hygienist.”
Dr M. Pietrobon, Cairns, QLD

“If you have no idea how to incorporate a hygienist into your practice- this is a must-do course.”
Dr P. Elfar, Wauchope, NSW

“I am so impressed that it wasn’t forced upon us, but was left for us to decide whether to implement procedures into our practice as we see fit. The trainer was excellent in speaking, explaining and presenting.”
M. Skaliaris, Dandenong, VIC

WHO SHOULD DO THIS COURSE

• Dentists who have hygienists
• Dentists considering employing a hygienist
• Hygienists

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