Your hygiene department is capable of far more.
Empower your Dental Hygienists to practice at the top of their license and deliver the comprehensive care patients expect in private practice.
Your patients see their Dental Hygiene providers more than anyone else on your team. Empower your hygiene department to capture opportunities early and deliver the first-class experience your patients deserve.
Do these problems sound familiar?
Your hygiene team can do much more
In many practices, hygiene visits are limited to routine cleanings and X-rays. With the right systems and clinical protocols, your hygiene team can play a much larger role in identifying disease, educating patients, and supporting treatment planning.
At DCC, we help practices bring structure to the hygiene department so your team can deliver more comprehensive care while supporting the growth of the practice.
"Our hygiene department feels more confident, aligned, and energized, and we’ve already seen positive results. We highly recommend them to any practice looking to strengthen and elevate their hygiene program.."
Here’s how we strengthen
your workflow
Higher-level hygiene care
Your Hygienists practice at the highest level of their license, delivering more preventive and comprehensive periodontal care.
Clear hygiene protocols
Your team follows structured clinical protocols that bring consistency and clarity to hygiene visits.
Dentist - Hygienist co-diagnosing
Dentists and Hygienists increase collaboration on restorative diagnosis and treatment planning to increase case acceptance and reduce exam time.
Hygiene performance visibility
You gain clear insight into hygiene metrics so you can track progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
Performance-based compensation
We help implement compensation models that reward hygienists for delivering excellent care and contributing to practice growth.
How We Increased Hygiene Production by $17,000 While Improving Team Performance
Clear process for improving your hygiene department
Observation visits
We observe how your hygiene department currently operates, including appointment flow, patient communication, and collaboration with doctors.
Identify opportunities
We identify opportunities to improve clinical protocols, treatment planning, imaging practices, and hygiene scheduling.
Clinical training
Your hygiene team receives focused trainings that are CE certified to strengthen patient communication, periodontal diagnosis and overall comprehensive care.
Implement key systems
We help implement systems that increase patient health and profitability within the hygiene department including but not limited to periodontal programs, productive scheduling practices and caries prevention protocols.
Measure progress
Hygiene analytics are reviewed to track improvements in patient care, treatment acceptance, and overall hygiene performance.
This coaching is not for every practice.
It’s designed for private practice owners who are serious about improving their systems, developing their team, and building a stronger practice.
Answers to help you move forward
Practices often see improvements in periodontal diagnosis, hygiene production, patient education, and treatment acceptance.
We track hygiene analytics throughout the program to monitor improvements in production, diagnosis rates, and overall department performance.
Yes. We help practices introduce a performance-based compensation model that rewards hygienists for delivering exceptional care.
Setting expectations creates alignment and calibration with team members and INCREASES team retention. In our experience, high performing Dental Hygienists who want to serve at their highest level feel empowered, rejuvenated and motivated to grow professionally after coaching.
Your hygiene team should participate, and in many cases the doctor and leadership team are also involved to support the systems being implemented.
Most of our coaching programs run for about 6 months. This allows enough time to observe your hygiene department, implement systems, train the team, and track progress.