How To Get The Most From Your Patient Compliance Tools

A complimentary printed version of these instructions comes with Invisible Aligner Care & Cautions™, Flossing and Brushing With Braces™, Preventing Problems With Braces™ and the Palatal Expander Guide™ to help you get maximum impact from your purchase.

Follow these instructions to shorten treatment times, have nicer finished cases, reduce overhead and have happier patients and referral sources.

The Invisible Aligner Care & Cautions™,  Palatal Expansion Guide™, Flossing and Brushing with Braces™, and Preventing Problems with Braces™ are designed to work in tandem to reduce problems and misunderstandings between patients, parents, and your office team. Here are some easy instructions to get the most from these innovative practice resources.

1. Don’t just drop these patient instruction tools into a bag of other items that are handed to the patient or parent. Always review this material with patients and parents and ask the adult to place these at eye level on the bathroom mirror where they will serve as reminders – every day.
2. Make a brief notation in the patient’s chart that he/she was given the Invisible Aligner Care & Cautions™, Palatal Expansion Guide™, Flossing and Brushing with Braces™, and Preventing Problems with Braces™. These could be useful legal tools in the unlikely event of a dispute at the end of treatment.
3. Keep a copy of Flossing and Brushing with Braces™ and Preventing Problems with Braces™ by the phone in the front desk area so that your team can communicate more effectively with patients who are experiencing problems.

Strengthen Relationships with Hygienists and Dentists

When you visit dental offices, show the dentist and hygienist what your practice is providing patients to help with their homecare –these compliance guides, brushes, floss, floss threaders, etc.

1. Tell them about your approach to homecare instructions and how your practice is managing compliance problems concerning homecare.
2. Show them all three guides and mention that you’re having the patients put these at eye-level on the bathroom mirror. Give a few to referring professionals.
3. Point out to them the reminder for patients to “visit your dentist regularly while you have braces” printed on Flossing and Brushing with Braces™. And, tell them that getting their patients back to their office is a top priority with you. 
4. Point out to them the reminder for patients to “visit your dentist regularly while you have braces” printed on Flossing and Brushing with Braces™. And, tell them that getting their patients back to their office is a top priority with you. 
5. Briefly review those things that your practice is doing to encourage patients to return to their dentists and hygienists. 
   Examples:
   - Any incentive programs that encourage preventive visits 
   - Verbal or written reminders at the banding appointments 
   - Any signs in your office that remind patients to continue visits to their dentists regularly 
   - Electronic or other periodic reinforcements 
   - Reminders at the deband/debond appointment 
   - Other methods that your practice uses to encourage preventive visits 
   - If it’s part of your contract with patients that they visit their dentist regularly, mention that, also. 

Ask dentists and hygienists to call you if there’s ever a problem with one of their patients concerning homecare or returning to their office for preventive care.

Thank them for the support they’ve given your practice and/or how much you’ve enjoyed working with them and their patients.