How to improve patient recall numbers

In today's busy dental practices, ensuring you have an effective system in place to recall patient numbers is as important—if not more so—as attracting new patients to attend your practice.

Once you have a patient, ensuring that they stay with you can be very hard work indeed. Implementing strategies and putting systems in place that work together can define your practice recall rates and help from losing your patients to your competitors. Realising the importance of patient recall is half the battle. Without an effective system in place, you will be missing many opportunities for patients to return to your practice and hence increase practice production and profits. The following 10 tips will show you how you can improve your recall numbers.