JUNE 2010 · No. 2
curvedental
the web-based dentist
An Argument for the Web
#2: Upgrades Don't Require a Call to Your IT Guy
Do you dread the day when your current software vendor sends you an upgrade? Do you instinctively reach for the phone to call your IT guy for installation help? With our Web-based dental software you never worry about upgrades, never install upgrades, never call your IT guy to install the upgrades. How do we do it? Magic. Lots and lots of magic... and the Web!


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Classic Dental Humor

A patient sits in the dental chair with severely fractured front teeth. After discussing how they will be restored and what the fee would be the patient says, "Before we begin, Doc, I gotta know: Will I be able to play the trumpet when you are finished? " The dentist replies " Sure you will! " The patient replies " Great, I couldn't play a note before! "


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Fun Dental Facts
Top of the American teeth stakes in the poll for greatest looking teeth were Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. 
Contact Info
Curve Dental, Inc.
424 W. 800 N. #202
Orem, UT 84057
Tel. (801) 851-5175
Sales 888-910-4376
sales@curvedental.com
www.curvedental.com
10 Ways to Increase Your Practice Production from Within
Cathy Jameson
Cathy Jameson, CEO Jameson Management
Power Thought from Jameson Management

  1. Go over dentistry diagnosed but untreated for your scheduled patients every day in your morning huddle. View these reports, which you can print from Curve, together and make a point to go over these problem areas with your patients while in the chair that day.
  2. Ask your patients to fill out a Smile Evaluation questionnaire when they come in for their next appointment.  Even if they filled one out as a new patient, their wants and needs may have changed over time and here is a place to pinpoint those hot buttons.
  3. Ask for referrals.
  4. Give at least two business cards to each patient at each appointment to give to friends and family for referrals.
  5. Use the digital camera effectively and regularly to show your patients the areas of needed attention in their mouths.  A picture is worth a thousand words!
  6. Educate!  Make sure you have ample patient education material available for your patients.  Before and after albums in the reception area, attractive brochures about specific treatments, educational videos provided by Curve Dental, etc.
  7. Be persistent and proactive in your continuous care program.  Use Curve Dental to help you locate patients that have "fallen through the cracks" in their continuous care and begin an effective campaign to get back on board with their hygiene appointments.
  8. Market to your patient family.  Curve Dental can provide you with ample reasons to stay in contact with your patient family, thus solidifying their relationship with you.  Use this software to stay in front of your patients for birthdays, post-treatment letters, educational letters, and notes to referring doctors, to list a few.
  9. Amp up your case presentation system.  Time to revamp how you are presenting treatment to your patients?  Get this system revitalized and give your patient the best possible through excellent communication skills and technological skills (i.e. use of digital and intra-oral camera shots).  Bring your patients in need of extensive treatment back in for a new and improved presentation - you may have found a new way to get to "yes"!
  10. Behold the power of the hygiene appointment!  Give yourselves ample time in the hygiene appointment to go over dentistry needed in your patients' mouths.  The use of the digital camera in a hygiene appointment can prove to be a very powerful tool for case acceptance.
About Jameson Management...
Curve Dental Receives Best of Class Technology Award
Pride Institute Technology Award
Curve Dental announced they are one of thirteen companies to receive the Pride Institute's Best of Class Technology Award for 2010. Curve Dental was a winner in the emerging technology class.

"We're honored to have been selected by the Pride Institute and recognized for the accomplishments we have made in dental software," said Jim Pack, CEO of Curve Dental. "We like nothing more than to create web-based tools that improve productivity, are more flexible to the doctor's lifestyle and much more convenient. A web-based platform lets us think outside the box and deliver on our promise to provide a fresh alternative to dental software. And as a result, doctors every day are choosing Curve Dental over traditional software because they see us as a solution with less stress and more freedom. Pride Institute's acknowledgment of what we are bringing to dentistry is a major achievement for Curve Dental."

A panel of dental technology experts, organized by the Pride Institute, a dental practice management consulting firm based in Novato, California, placed Curve Dental on the list of winners in the emerging technologies class.

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