How to increase practice profit by $12k/month and more

• Chair time for initial placement

• Patient frustration of calling and scheduling a repair

• Loss of patient confidence in the practice, staff, orthodontist, and office effciency

• Scheduling Coordinator time in making an "Emergency Appointment"

• Patient travel time

• Patient seating time

• Time spent replacing the bracket and reinserting the wire

• Sterilization of equipment used to replace the failed bracket

• Employee time and wages

It has been estimated that 25-30% of all brackets come loose at some point during the course of patient treatment**.

If you start 15 cases per month at 28 brackets per case, you place 420 brackets per month. A failure rate of 25% results in 105 loose brackets per month. The monthly cost of this broken bracket rate is $150/per bracket x 105 loose brackets per month = $15,750/month..

Employing staff members who are trained in proven bonding methods can reduce this broken bracket rate to less than 5%. For this example that would reduce the number of broken brackets from 105 to 21 and reduce the unnecessary expense from $15,750 to $3,150 and increase practice profit $12,600 a month in revenue ($151,200/year). In addition to the monetary boost, the practice demonstrates high efficiency to patients (and to parents of patients, and enhancing the team morale and pride in their jobs.

Why should you believe this? How can training really impact broken bracket percentage?

ITI courses teach every detail of a proven system of bonding that you and your staff need to know in order to have effective bonding second molar to second molar routinely. The ITI Bonding Course teaches:

All about brackets and the design features that can improve bonding

• All about brackets and the design features that can improve bonding

• All types of bonding enhancers and their uses

• All types of sealants and a system of placement that eliminates gingival seepage problems

• All types of adhesives and their uses, especially when bonding to molars

• Exact steps for ideal isolation when bonding second molar to second molar

• Exact steps for preparing the teeth for bonding including variable etching times for different teeth

• An exact sequence for laying the brackets on the teeth for decreasing problems with contamination

• An exact procedure for positioning of each bracket using tooth landmarks and the panorex during direct bonding so that there is little need for bracket repositioning later (where trained staff place the brackets so that the doctor only does final positioning)

• Light curing procedures for enhanced attachment

ITI Bonding courses also have a Bracket Failure Percentage Calculator spreadsheet program for the team to calculate the current Bracket Failure Rate and determine the causes. Then training can focus on the specific problems areas. To prove that training did dramatically improve bonding success, a post-training Bracket Failure Percentage calculation may be done.

You and your team can celebrate the success of improved team morale, enhanced practice image, increased patient confidence, and a definite increase to the bottom line of $12,600 a month! And that is just using training with the ITI Bonding Course!

    LOOSE BRACKETS FACTS

• $150 - Cost to replace a
  broken bracket
   
• 25-30% of brackets come lose
  in an average orthodontic practice
   
• <5% - of brackets come lose in
  an ITICourses.com practice.
   
• $151,200/year cost savings
   with ITICourses.com