As dentists around the world have
been warned to be at a greater risk of getting the COVID19 infection, dental
clinics around the world have shut down as a precautionary measure and are only
offering emergency dental services. This could put a lot of dentists (like many
other professionals) into a fair amount of financial or emotional stresses.
Here are things you could do to spend the time wisely and put the current
situation at the back of your minds.
Improve your skills and knowledge:
There are a lot of online short
courses that you would have always wanted to do but never found the time for.
Now is the time to motivate yourself to sign up for these courses. They’ll keep
you occupied and also enrich you with new knowledge when you resume your
services.
Improve your clinic:
This is the best time to write down
what are all the problem areas or areas that need an advancement in your
clinic. This could be referring to technology, equipment, resource, service or
employee. List down all changes you would like to make and find a right time
during or after this time of social distancing to execute it.
Improve your clinic’s brand value:
- This is the best thing to work on during this time and
a lot of ways to achieve this is now available in this tech savvy world.
You can do one of the below:
- Invest in a new, user friendly,
highly efficient dental clinic management software like Curie.Health. This
will help not only with connecting better with your patients by sending SMS
reminders, emails etc., it will also help appointment bookings to be made
easily, help with your lab service inventories and communication, ease
billing and payments and also help you manage and stay in contact with
your clinic from anywhere in the world.
- Focus on marketing services and
plans and consider saving some amount of income every month to invest in
marketing activities. Digital and offline marketing is the best way to
publicise your clinic’s brand name and attract new clients to your clinic.
These plans and services are best executed by professional marketing
professionals and this can be done by outsourcing this activity to a
provider such as Curie. Health.
- Constantly stay in touch with
your existing clients even in times such as this, so as to reassure them,
assist them in emergencies and build their trust. This will make them
always come back to you and not look for alternate options.
Join dental networks
that will empower you and uplift you
with the best advises and assures in tough times such as this. You will be able
to share your knowledge and gain some from others in the network. You can join
Curie Health’s network on https://curie.health/
Lastly, stay positive as these trials and hard
times are only temporary and you will soon be back on your feet.
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