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Your Schedule Is Full. So Why Aren't You Hitting Goal?

How Dental Office Managers Can Look Beyond "We're Booked" and Build a Schedule That Actually Supports the Goal A full schedule and a productive schedule are not the same thing. A Practical Guide for Dental Office Managers, Practice Administrators, Scheduling Coordinators, and Practice Leaders

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  • ✓ The Full-Schedule Illusion
  • ✓ Start With What the Schedule Is Supposed to
  • ✓ Find the Number Behind the Schedule
  • ✓ Look at Production Per Visit
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What's inside Your Schedule Is Full. So Why Aren't You Hitting Goal?

How Dental Office Managers Can Look Beyond "We're Booked" and Build a Schedule That Actually Supports the Goal A full schedule and a productive schedule are not the same thing. A Practical Guide for Dental Office Managers, Practice Administrators, Scheduling Coordinators, and Practice Leaders

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The Full-Schedule Illusion

Unusable Gaps Missed Treatment Short Appointments Poor Placement production goal. create operational friction.

02

Start With What the Schedule Is Supposed to

Produce The Gap Before the Day Starts What Managers Should Know Before the Day Arrives Major treatment scheduled Hygiene capacity Known schedule risks When managers…

03

Find the Number Behind the Schedule

Available Appointments Appointments Treatment Procedure Mix Capacity Scheduled Kept Completed When production is below goal, the instinctive response is often: "We need…

04

Look at Production Per Visit

Monday Tuesday Same number of patients. Very different result. Production per visit is a diagnostic measure — not a rigid universal target to post on the wall and…

05

Look at Production Per Clinical Hour

Don't compare days in Context changes the The goal is understanding isolation conclusion performance, even though the raw production number looks identical.

06

Procedure Mix Changes the Day

limited exams, new patients, major treatment, and follow-ups all carry different production values and serve different purposes.

Kyle Summerford, founder of DOMA
About the author

Meet Kyle Summerford

Kyle has spent more than 25 years in dentistry. He started at the front desk, worked his way up to dental office manager, and became one of the most recognized voices in dental practice management.

As the founder of the Dental Office Managers Alliance, Kyle is focused on helping dental office managers strengthen leadership, systems, communication, team management, and daily operations through practical tools built around the realities of dental practice management.

This guide was created to help managers put the ideas in this guide to work in their own practice, one small change at a time.

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