How the lab can help you increase productivity

If you can perform a crown procedure faster, you can increase productivity and translate that time savings into increased profitability. Exactly how does a change in production affect your net income? The greatest impact on profitability comes from productivity, not reducing variable costs. That means a 5% increase in production results in a 12% increase in net income. Because 80% of your expenses are fixed, and won’t go up with an increase in production, much of that is pure profit.

Other benefits of seating a crown faster include:

• An enhanced production schedule
• Reduced doctor and patient stress
• An incentivized staff with production bonuses
• Increased patient satisfaction

If seating a crown takes you more than 15-20 minutes, there’s an issue.

The lab can help keep you increase productivity by checking all contacts on a solid model, sending all cases on functioning articulators and using 10x magnification for enhanced quality control. With help from the lab, you can reduce remakes to improve the efficiency of your practice.
When the doctor and lab work together, the odds of a successful restoration greatly improve. And successfully minimizing chair time means you can move onto the next patient, reduce patient recalls and grow your practice.