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The Benefits of Online Learning
The Benefits of Online Learning

Education is never a “one size fits all” situation. Online training offers maximum convenience and flexibility for your team to enhance their skills and knowledge of your dental software. Through online modules, your team members can easily learn about the best practices for using your dental software, along with tips or shortcuts for more efficient daily workflows. In this blog post, we discuss five benefits of using ABELDent LMS, ABELDent's online learning management system to train your team to get the most out of your dental software.

ABELDent’s 2023 Year In Review
ABELDent’s 2023 Year In Review

With 2023 coming to a close, we want to take the chance to thank ABELDent users for the continued support and trust as your dental software provider. Throughout the year, we were dedicated to enhancing our mainstream ABELDent products with new features and enhancements designed to help you streamline the operation of your dental practice.

Customizing Your Dental Practice’s Online Forms with ABELDent
Customizing Your Dental Practice’s Online Forms with ABELDent

From new patient intake forms to health history to consent forms for treatment, your practice may already generate plenty of electronic files for forms every week. In this blog post, we cover some of the benefits of going paperless, as well as show you in detail how to customize your office's online forms using ABELDent.

A Deep Dive into Charting in ABELDent
A Deep Dive into Charting in ABELDent

Tasks like recording conditions, charting treatment, and planning treatment are easier than ever before. ABELDent’s extensive charting capabilities allow you to do more in less time. Watch our video to learn about ABELDent’s charting functionalities and see how simple charting and creating clinical notes can be.

Three Tips to try for Minimizing Patient No Shows
Three Tips to try for Minimizing Patient No Shows

Harnessing software that provides time-saving benefits, such as ABELDent, can help you easily send multiple patient reminders with a click of a button.

Why ABELDent Is Your One-Stop-Solution For All Of Your Practice Management Needs
Why ABELDent Is Your One-Stop-Solution For All Of Your Practice Management Needs

How much does your current dental software allow you to do? Does your current software provide you with all the tools you need to manage your practice? How many different programs does your practice use daily? These are some burning questions fuelling the growing number of offices switching to practice management platforms that provide more tools. Whether it is because of the simplicity of automatic updates, or the surety of meeting compliance standards, many practices are moving to modern, comprehensive solutions like ABELDent CS/LS+.

Get Ahead of Outstanding Treatment
Get Ahead of Outstanding Treatment

Have some of your patients fallen behind on treatment in the past two years? COVID-19’s impact stretches beyond a health crisis, causing job losses and lay-offs worldwide, especially in 2020. Perhaps some of your patients are just now getting back on their feet but have not had a chance to think about getting their routine cleaning at your office. Possibly, some of your patients have been apprehensive about coming in due to health risks, such as immunocompromised patients, elderly patients, or individuals with heightened anxiety. Despite the possible reasons that patients have fallen behind on treatment, one major question stands: does your office have an efficient method for contacting patients who have outstanding treatment? Learn about APC, our communication system, and how it can help you get patients back in your office, and get ahead of outstanding treatment.­­ 

Managing Patient Treatment with ABELDent
Managing Patient Treatment with ABELDent

It can be a challenge to convince some patients of the importance of their oral hygiene. Oftentimes, patients do not realize how important regular cleanings are until they are facing issues such as decay, potential extractions, and endodontic treatments.

Simplified Charting in ABELDent CS and LS+
Simplified Charting in ABELDent CS and LS+

A comprehensive charting system is a necessity for your office. While most practice management systems offer the same range of charting mechanisms, ABELDent offers simplified systems for clinical charting such as templated clinical chart notes for quick and easy record-keeping with no compromises. These fast templated notes mean your team spends more time focusing on providing top-quality treatment without sacrificing detailed records. Other benefits much like templated clinical notes are what makes ABELDent such a useful tool for dental professionals.

Here’s Why Dentists Are Opting For an All-In-One Practice Management Solution
Here’s Why Dentists Are Opting For an All-In-One Practice Management Solution

How many different software platforms does your dental practice use daily?  Dental offices have a growing number of technologies available to meet practice specific practice needs. Some practices use more of these than others, trying to get the most benefit from each. This approach can sometimes get complicated.  For instance, if one or more of the solutions have difficulties, it can lead to having to spend time on the phone with multiple companies while at the same time trying to work through the issues created in the office. Most of all, having many different types of software can result in new problems when one of the solutions is updated without a corresponding change in other software.  A more comprehensive dental software can help to minimize these issues, and often save you money at the same time. 

Checking In With Your Wellness and Settling Back Into A Routine
Checking In With Your Wellness and Settling Back Into A Routine

Physicians and scientists are finding dramatically higher rates of depression and anxiety due to COVID-19's impact on our social lives, work lives, and overall wellbeing. Taking your own personal wellness into account not only benefits your mental and physical health, but also enables you to be more effective in the office. Furthermore, you may find that you provide better quality care to your patients when you make your wellbeing a priority. In this blog post, we want to highlight some techniques you and your team can use to check-in with your wellness and make settling back into routines easier this season. 

Strategies To Get Patients Back In Your Office For Routine Appointments
Strategies To Get Patients Back In Your Office For Routine Appointments

The dental industry has undoubtedly been negatively impacted by the pandemic’s ripple effects worldwide. Oral healthcare was quickly identified as a risk due to the nature of the virus transmission, as well as the use of aerosols in many dental treatments. Dental providers have adapted and implemented many new processes to keep patients and dental teams optimally safe from the virus. In this blog, learn 5 strategies for getting patients back in your chairs for routine appointments to get your office back on track.

3 Ways You Can Maintain and Improve Your Practice’s Positive Environment
3 Ways You Can Maintain and Improve Your Practice’s Positive Environment

How do you improve morale when hard times hit?  Whether your dental assistants or reception team are leaving a first impression, or you are treating a long-time patient, patient acquisition and retention comes down to the quality of care provided. Providing quality care to patients involves multiple factors, one of which is having a positive team. Your patients are more likely to be comfortable with someone who has a happy presence in the operatory.  

3 Tips for Dental Receptionists in 2021
3 Tips for Dental Receptionists in 2021

The role of the dental receptionist is a complicated one, and it differs from office-to-office. There are varied job descriptions, tasks, and duties established by each practice. Something consistent, however, is that dental receptionists are always on the "front lines" in a practice. Fielding patient and team inquiries, managing patient issues, and keeping all records organized are just some of the tasks receptionist's handle. For many prospective patients, receptionists and front-desk workers are the face of the practice.

3 Reasons to Leverage Web Analytics as a Dental Practice
3 Reasons to Leverage Web Analytics as a Dental Practice

How well is your website contributing to your practice goals? Is there someone in your practice gathering information and taking action to improve your web presence? Who in your office has time to check data analytics? How would it benefit your dental practice?

Video Tutorial: Securely Send Touchless Health History Forms to Patients
Video Tutorial: Securely Send Touchless Health History Forms to Patients

Much like our previous video, our new tutorial shows you a new ABELDent CS/LS+ feature that allows you to send touch-free health history forms to patients. Not only does this easy feature help your practice save paper for hundreds of patients, but it also saves time. Once the patient finishes their health history form, they can submit the form which goes directly into their electronic patient chart.

4 Tips for Managing Stress as a Dental Provider
4 Tips for Managing Stress as a Dental Provider

September is a time of year full of changes, some of which can be a source of stress for you or your family members as kids go back to school and families transition into new routines that can add uncertainty and stress at the best of times.

How Patient Alerts Simplify Your Day
How Patient Alerts Simplify Your Day

Running a dental practice is far from formulaic. Patient needs vary from person to person, which sometimes presents barriers. Language barriers, for example, are common issues that dental teams need to address for a portion of patients. Ensuring that you have the necessary tools and resources to communicate with your patients effectively is crucial. Having solutions prepared ahead of time limits stress for both parties and allows for a more rewarding experience for both your team and your patients.

Getting Back on Your Feet: Optimize Review Management Software for Effortless Feedback
Getting Back on Your Feet: Optimize Review Management Software for Effortless Feedback

In March 2020, popular review websites, including Google and Yelp, temporarily disabled business reviews to avoid misconceptions and bad reviews due to COVID-19 spreading in North America. While this measure did not last long, it reinforced the impact that public reviews have on small businesses such as dental practices.

How to Effectively Insert Insurance Bulk Payments
How to Effectively Insert Insurance Bulk Payments

Tracking finances can be tedious sometimes, but having the right practice management system in place may alleviate some of the stress. In our new video, we address some common issues that can impact the entry of bulk insurance payments.

Why You Should Keep Track of Your Practice’s Performance
Why You Should Keep Track of Your Practice’s Performance

Business decisions are a part of daily life for dental professionals. Whether you are a provider and owner, or you have a different role in a practice, you have an impact on and are impacted by the practice’s business decisions.

3 Ways to Increase Positivity in Your Practice
3 Ways to Increase Positivity in Your Practice

In past blog posts, we pointed out the power in maintaining a positive work environment in your dental practice. This week, we want to revisit this conversation from a different angle to discuss the impact that fostering a positive attitude in your practice has on your team and your patients.

Video Tutorials Part II: Quick Scheduling Tool
Video Tutorials Part II: Quick Scheduling Tool

A month ago, our team posted our first video to our new video tutorial series. If you missed the video, you can see it here. The first tutorial covered ABELDent’s clinical sidebar, which is a feature included in the new updated version of the software. Our video tutorials show you how you can use these new features everyday in your office -

ABELDent’s Exciting New Features: Video Tutorials
ABELDent’s Exciting New Features: Video Tutorials

Last week’s blog post addressed the downtime caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the ways that dentists can keep themselves preoccupied, even though all routine services are postponed. In the blog post, we encourage dental professionals to utilize online classes now that they have some more time to benefit from additional learning.   In line with this theme, -

Prepare for a Prosperous Practice, Even When You Can’t Work From Home
Prepare for a Prosperous Practice, Even When You Can’t Work From Home

In light of recent events, with Ontario ordering the shutdown of nonessential workplaces, ABELDent employees are now working from home. Telecommuting is highly encouraged and measures to prevent the spread of the virus are being enforced for at least 14 days.  A substantial number of Canadians are unable to work due to the COVID-19 crisis, including dental professionals. Dentists are still -

Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 3 of 3)
Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 3 of 3)

In Part 1 of this series, the concept of Practice Management by Objectives (PMBO) was introduced. The first two objectives of the methodology were outlined; achieving financial targets and increasing hygiene and treatment plan acceptance. Objectives 3 and 4, growing/retaining your patient base and advancing your scheduling were covered in Part 2 of this series. -

A Reliable Tool for Objectively Evaluating Your Practice
A Reliable Tool for Objectively Evaluating Your Practice

This blog post outlines the ways that SWOT Analysis can be applied to dental offices. See our example for using this business analysis tool for dental practices, and try it for your own office.

Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 2 of 3)
Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 2 of 3)

In Part 1 of this series, the concept of Practice Management by Objectives (PMBO) was introduced and the first two objectives of the methodology were outlined.  Part 2 of this series follows with Objectives 3 and 4.    OBJECTIVE 3: GROW AND RETAIN A LOYAL PATIENT BASE  For sustained practice growth, it is important to both attract new patients to -

Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 1 of 3)
Establishing and Monitoring Key Objectives for Dental Practice Success (Part 1 of 3)

Management by Objectives (MBO), is a well-established method for setting business goals, monitoring performance and achieving desired results.  Developed by Peter Drucker decades ago, even today it is still very much in use by businesses.  As your dental practice is a business, there is no reason why you cannot benefit from MBO’s guiding principles as well.  This blog presents a modified version of MBO specifically for dentistry, which we will correspondingly refer to -

What to Look for When Building Your Clinic’s Dream Team
What to Look for When Building Your Clinic’s Dream Team

Get in touch with ABELDent to learn more about how you can build an effective, successful patient-centered dental practice that can thrive for years to come.

Enhance Your Practice Management Software with Integrated Third-party Applications and Services
Enhance Your Practice Management Software with Integrated Third-party Applications and Services

“Are there other things that dental software should do beyond practice and clinical management?” When asked that question my general response is; “there are other functions available that, with varying degrees of integration, work synergistically with dental practice management software to increase your return on investment – it’s just a matter of deciding what your -

Can Human-Focused Technology Change How Your Clinic Operates?
Can Human-Focused Technology Change How Your Clinic Operates?

People are at the centre of any healthcare business – both as patients, and as a team of providers delivering care. While technical concerns are common at a time when the dental industry is undergoing massive changes due to improvements in software and technology, one question I’m frequently asked is about the human side of -

Why Good Design is Essential When Opening a New Dental Practice
Why Good Design is Essential When Opening a New Dental Practice

When opening a new dental practice, it can feel like there are a million things to plan for and then actually get done. Not only do you have to make sure that your equipment and staffing needs are met, you also need to secure financing, develop your marketing campaign and business plan, implement dental software -

How to Foster a Culture of Lifelong Learning at Your Dental Clinic
How to Foster a Culture of Lifelong Learning at Your Dental Clinic

One of the things that makes dentistry such an exciting industry to work in is the fact that, just like the software industry, the field is constantly changing. As new research turns up new information, and new software creates new service possibilities, dentistry continues to evolve to provide patients with better care. This means that -

Easily Produce New Reports and Dental Practice Metrics with these Productivity Tools
Easily Produce New Reports and Dental Practice Metrics with these Productivity Tools

You’ve probably viewed hundreds of reports by now from your dental practice management software – production totals, collections, receivables, and maybe even a missed appointment list if possible. (In a recent blog, I provided samples of these types of standard reports as well as specific transaction tracking features that are essential for running a well-informed, -

Dental Clinical Charting Features To Look For
Dental Clinical Charting Features To Look For

Have you decided to bite the bullet and replace your paper patient charts with electronic ones? Or, have you already done this and are disappointed with the results? First let’s quickly review why it’s still a good decision and then look at what software features are essential to make electronic charting work as smoothly as -

Appointment Scheduling: The Key to Dental Office Productivity
Appointment Scheduling: The Key to Dental Office Productivity

I recently wrote two blogs that highlight specific practice management software features and how to evaluate them for your practice. First, I talked about the importance of having a robust financial ledger system for efficiently managing transactions. Second, I reviewed the need to efficiently identify and manage outstanding treatment that leads to increased productivity and -

4 Back to School Tips to Help Dental Students Succeed This Semester
4 Back to School Tips to Help Dental Students Succeed This Semester

The following guest post is from Tyler Willis, founder of Tyler Willis Content Consulting. An accomplished writer and editor, Tyler engages with clients from many industries including higher education, technology and healthcare to produce professional quality content that appears in magazines, online news and blogs. For students preparing for a career in the dental industry, -

Service and Support: The Key to Dental Software Satisfaction
Service and Support: The Key to Dental Software Satisfaction

Recently I wrote a blog about four main factors to consider when evaluating and purchasing dental software. One of the factors cited was the importance of a vendor’s quality and level of service and support. While writing, this had me thinking back to a time when we were doing a lot of conversions from other -

What to Look For in a Dental Office Manager
What to Look For in a Dental Office Manager

A dental office manager plays a central role in the smooth functioning of the dental practice. If you want your clinic to succeed, ensure that the position is filled by someone who is passionate about patient care and has the hard skills to make sure that every aspect of clinic business is addressed.   But -

Top 5 Ways to Improve the Culture of Your Practice
Top 5 Ways to Improve the Culture of Your Practice

Workplace culture: it’s one of those terms that seems vague, but actually plays an incredibly important role in the job satisfaction and work experiences of dental practice employees. Where a workplace culture is healthy and vibrant employees enjoy coming to work, are friendly with their colleagues and rally around each other in trying times to -

The Importance of Cross-Training
The Importance of Cross-Training

A lot of different skill sets are needed to make a dental clinic run smoothly, and successful clinics are usually ones where all of these skill sets work together to provide the best possible patient experience. Administrative staff book appointments, handle patient intake and receive payments. Dental Assistants sterilize instruments, prepare treatment rooms and assist -