 Hello everybody, Andrea here. So let's talk about why you cannot not afford a dental hygiene software Okay, or a dental software however you want to think about it So a dental software for your computer that will schedule patients and book in patients keep track of everything Keep track of patient info will have your own dog to grab you can write your chart notes right in there You can send claim forms Electronically you can take payment accept payment however you want to say it why you need a dental hygiene software When I first started my practice I did not want one because I went to the convention and software prices were $25,000 plus you had to pay every three months plus you had to pay for support. It was ridiculous. I'm sorry I still think it is ridiculous. I have worked in dental practices as well Their software is $20,000 plus it breaks down every week. They have to call in to support. Oh my goodness is crazy So that's why I had said before I can't afford a dental software I didn't want one. I mean I did want one because it's so nice to be organized But I wasn't going to pay that plus have issues where I would have to be on the phone with them Well, I found a software that was or sorry is $3,000 to buy the whole thing and that if you want the yearly support That is $800 a year, but that covers it for any updates if you have to call them they answer you right away They're very helpful that type of thing. That's a lot better than $25,000 right and then however much they have to pay for support but how has it really changed by practice I wish I had it from day one and I tell everybody who will listen how amazing it is So the main thing that it changed for me was getting organized as I was seeing more and more patience What I had done before is I would type up all of my chart notes on my laptop into word I would organize everything by patient file And I would have it all on my computer, right? But but then I also kind of wanted to pay for copies So I would print it sometimes and I realized no, that's way too much paperwork Your medical history was all done on paper But then I did switch it to online But then I always had to put it into their patient file, right? But then guess what? What if you have to look for something? what if you have to look for a claim form or The response from insurance of how much was covered then where do you put in how much is covered is it? 80% oh wait, they're never covered for the exam only once a year Where do you put all of that in? Well, I would just put it into that patient folder But it got too big too fast and too disorganized So what a dental software does is it keeps everything organized? It's the best thing if I need to quickly look up a patient look up their address I don't have to scroll through hundreds Sorry guys, I have allergies Hundreds of folders to look for this patient click a couple times click on another folder to open their address No, no, no, it was just too much work you guys So a dental software everything's right there Check out the video that I have on the dental software that I use and actually shows how easy everything is But even more importantly than just being able to pick up patient info right away is sending claim forms electronically I always thought that would be way too much work to sign up. I wasn't interested. I was perfectly fine just mailing in claim forms But then I got more patients more patients more patients. I was spending like five hours a day I'm not kidding you guys. I'm not kidding just writing out claim forms It was insane because when you do things on paper You have to print out a blank claim form or you can put in the information on the computer But it takes so much time because you always have to put in your address Your everything put in their address put in the codes blah blah blah on their insurance info. It's crazy But that's what I would do. Where has this dental software? It has a template for you So your name office number everything is already there the patients info is already there because you put it into their patient file before Their insurance info is already there. So you just have to put it in like it was already there You just have to put in the actual codes that you had done that day print done or send electronically done amazing But then what if that claim form gets lost? What if you realize three months from now? Oh the insurance never did pay me You have to send it again or as before I'd have to print off another claim form It would be blank. I'd have to go back to see how I wrote their claim form in the first place Hopefully I saved it and then do it that way but with my dental software, they're all saved So if you have to reset something you just have to click on that date and it prints for you or you can send electronically right away It has saved me so many hours so many headaches you really can't afford not to have one It's a business expense do it right away. I'm telling you another easy thing is taking payments I love that in my dental software. It keeps track of all of the income that I'm making all of the insurance checks all of the cash It keeps track of if a patient hasn't paid or if I haven't submitted their claim form or something it keeps track of everything for me And the exciting part too is let's say I want to know how many new patients I got this month Well there is actually like a back office part where it has all of that info for you so I can check how many new patients I had this month Month how many new patients I had this whole year how many new patients did I have last year it keeps track of all of that and that's just a lot of fun to look at And you can plan accordingly you can change things you know you might say to yourself oh wow I have a lot of new patients this month Oh this month I've been posting a lot more on social media I bet that's it so it's just nice to look at the reports you guys it's great Charging all of those notes makes it so much easier the medical history is done right there it's just really easy Please make sure to look at the video that I did post on the dental software that I use in case you want to see like all of the different things But it's amazing get a dental software you will thank me later it's the best okay you don't have to get the one that I have But I did do my research because I'm frugal and I didn't want to spend $30,000 when I can spend $3,000 for the same thing I've been using it now for about a year and I wouldn't go back to anything else so thank you guys for watching let me know if any questions and I'll talk to you in the next one