10 Reasons Why You Should Invest in New Dental Equipment

To buy or not to buy! If you are still undecided whether you should invest in new dental equipment either on account of the cost it involves or the fact that new equipment will mean extensive training for the staff to be able to use the equipment, here are 10 reasons why you must make the buying decision. The fact that there are a host of advantages to be reaped with respect to offering patient safety, improving employee morale as well as improving business efficiency, speaks a lot in its favor.
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Reduced breakdowns
The first and foremost advantage of new, state-of-the-art equipment is that there is reduced risk of breakdowns. With old equipment, you tend to struggle with breakdowns that can turn out to be very costly especially when you have scheduled back-to-back appointments. Even if there aren’t breakdowns, customers experience also suffers on account of factors like the old equipment making a whole lot of noise or simply being slow. All of this tarnishes your reputation as customers are left disgruntled. What you contend with, therefore is a dual loss, both in terms of current as well as future business prospects. This is something that can be easily corrected with new, updated equipment that ensures that you do not have to turn customers away on account of inherent inefficiencies in the system.
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Make routine checkups easy
There is a lot of time to be saved especially when it comes to routine check-ups and procedures, with new equipment. Older equipment tends to slow down the process leading to loss of precious time at your end as well as a general feeling of annoyance at the client’s end. With new, state-of-the-art equipment you save on time and improve efficiency besides of course earning client trust, an invaluable asset!
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Patient safety and comfort
Improved dental equipment also goes a long way in offering improved safety. This is especially true for large dental equipment such as new dental chairs, which are designed in a manner such that accidents can be avoided. Also with new technology offering early detection of oral problems and being less invasive, patient comfort is a given. Now that is one factor no business can afford to compromise on!
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Reduced risk of infection
With new dental lab equipment, particularly sterilization equipment, you significantly reduce the risk of infection. That is something your patients will truly value and it will enable you to live up to your patient first policy.
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Renewed confidence
A natural corollary of all the above factors is increased confidence in patients on your dental solutions leading to them coming back to you each time as their preferred dental destination. Also as there is no better advertising than word of mouth, you are likely to gain a host of new customers basis the positive feedback from existing ones.
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Improved reputation and brand equity
The biggest benefit you can reap, therefore, is that of improved reputation and equity as the business grows from strength to strength.
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Staff motivation levels
Training staff on using new equipment means that they get to upgrade their skills. Now that is something they value as it leads to learning and growth for them. Overall this also leads to an improved sense of pride in their work and improved motivation levels, which go a long way, in turn, in delivering not just customer satisfaction but customer delight. After all, happy employees lead to happy customers!
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Data streamlining
New techniques also mean putting in place digital systems which take away the need to input data manually. This has multiple advantages from improving efficiency to reduced need for maintaining paperwork. Most importantly the errors that can arise with manual data input are mitigated, making your offering robust and error-free.
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Competitive advantage
Overall the use of new equipment and systems can give you a significant competitive advantage. With the ability to digitize records you can offer both speed as well as reduced possibility for manual errors. Think also easy access to patient data, easy referral of reports to specialists etc. This is likely to give you a significant advantage over competitors who still follow the old paper-based approach that lends itself to both plausible errors as well as significant delays.
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Improved Operational Efficiency
Overall what the new dental equipment will, therefore, ensure is that you run your practice extremely efficiently with reduced breakdowns and happy patients. Now isn’t that the perfect formula to take your dental practice to the next level?
To sum up, new, updated dental equipment and systems will offer sizeable operational efficiencies besides bringing in a competitive edge and above all enhance the patient experience. All extremely valid reasons to buy new equipment and see your practice soar!
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