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Marketing Implant Dentistry.
Title:
Marketing Implant Dentistry.
Author:
Hines, Marcus.
ISBN:
9781119114543
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (189 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Visual aids and verbal skills -- Physicians make great use of visual aids -- Better to show empathy, not sympathy -- Implants are worth more than replacing missing teeth -- Everything begins with asking the right questions -- The power of visual aids -- You could learn a lesson from my contractor -- Your patients aren't broke, but your delivery may be broken -- Verbal skills -- Work out the financials -- Dental implant models -- Elevator pitch -- Could it be that your case presentation just sucks? -- Implant animations -- Leveraging your auxiliary staff for animation demos -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Patient education seminars -- Lasik eye surgery education seminars -- Using patient education seminars to attract dental implant patients -- Seminar location -- Office environment -- Refreshments -- The presentation -- Staff introduction -- Dentist's introduction -- Who's in your audience and why did they show up? -- The body of your presentation -- Topics of discussion -- Include statistical data -- What is a dental implant? -- Speaking to the interests of the denture wearer -- Colorful images and animations -- Using implant animations adds a visual element -- Before-and-after images -- Live patient testimonials -- Presentation conclusion -- The postpresentation process -- Survey the attendees -- Office tour -- Advertising your patient education seminars -- Postcards to promote seminars to your patient base -- Radio advertising -- Print media -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Partnering with physicians for dental implants -- A physician's endorsement of you could be priceless -- Speak in a language the physician understands -- Unconventional methods can lead to extraordinary results -- Targeting endocrinologists and orthopedic surgeons for patient referrals.

Targeting the gastroenterologist doctors -- Targeting otolaryngologists (aka ENT doctors) -- Targeting plastic surgeons for patient referrals -- Targeting obstetrician and gynecologists (OB/GYN) -- Other healthcare providers to target -- Keep your expectations realistic -- Physicians need dental implants too -- Comarketing efforts -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Marketing full-arch implant dentistry in your practice -- Tissue-borne dentures: The short-term solution -- Targeting your denture wearers first -- Face-to-face with the denture patient -- Immediate load/immediate function -- Targeting removable partial denture and fixed partial denture patients for immediate load -- Presenting the treatment plan for immediate load -- The failing partial-denture: Post-op examination discussion -- Consultation with the immediate-load candidate -- Making financial arrangements -- Establish goals for immediate-load production -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Implant marketing for the surgical specialist -- Who moved my implant? -- Meeting the needs of restorative doctor -- Provide restorative parts -- Superior professional and patient communications/correspondences -- Sharing case reports with restorative doctors -- Edentulous patient implant study group -- Edentulous study group members must submit cases -- Two must-have members in any edentulous study group -- The edentulous study group's costs and continuing education credits -- The edentulous study group membership tuition -- Formal invitation and sales tool -- Duration and frequency of edentulous meetings -- Target your top two to five referral sources' patient base -- Focus on your top 20% referral sources -- Take responsibility for all associated costs and logistics -- Patients and professionals are used to direct to consumer advertising -- You too should go direct to consumer -- Strategies for going direct to consumer.

Patient education seminars are a powerful tool for specialists -- Using an ad agency for your advertising -- The prosthodontist specialty -- Process of reciprocation -- Prosthetically driven implant white papers -- Role of an implant coordinator -- Expand your geographical range -- Reducing clinical limitations is crucial -- Immediate anterior provisional -- Immediate-occlusal loading -- Bone regeneration -- Soft tissue regeneration -- Complications in implant dentistry -- Fully guided surgery -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Database marketing -- Automate your data entry as much as possible -- Querying your removable partial-denture patients for in-depth insight -- Collecting the right data through patient surveys is crucial -- How you structure your survey is important -- SurveyMonkey.com: Use it! -- Tailor your marketing efforts to match your research findings -- Automate your marketing correspondence -- Define your missing teeth demographics -- The numbers don't lie -- Build rapport year-round -- Target each demographic in your database for implants -- Reactivate your inactive patients -- Drop your buckets where you are -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Internet presence -- Website -- Implant content -- Search engine optimization -- Blog -- YouTube -- Video type #1: Testimonial videos -- Video type #2: Treatment/education videos -- Google Adwords -- Landing page (or squeeze page) -- Social media -- LinkedIn -- Facebook -- Twitter -- Instagram -- Rating sites -- Summary -- Works cited -- Index -- EULA.
Abstract:
A large percentage of skilled dental professionals lack the tools and comfort level required to market themselves and their dental implant practices effectively  As a consequence, these dental professionals miss several opportunities to help patients and grow their business. Even those who recognize the need for marketing often don't have the experience or training to do so effectively. Marketing Implant Dentistry meets this need by giving dentists the tools to better market and promote their practices and to gain case acceptance.Marketing Implant Dentistry presents proven approaches for attracting dental implant patients and demonstrates the use of successful communication skills, including verbal and visual aids. This book details multiple examples of patient friendly and professional letters for use in targeting both new implant patients and professional referral sources. Readers will learn the benefits of adopting non-traditional approaches such as hosting patient education seminars, as well as cultivating professional relationships with the medical community (physicians) for the purposes of generating untapped referral relationships. Best practices in internet and social media marketing, specific to implant dentistry, are also demonstrated so practices can make the most out of these low-cost opportunities.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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