Building Long Lasting Relationships

I have been practicing for over 25 years. And I have been treating many of my patients the entire time that I’ve been practicing.

I’ve developed many great relationships with my patients.

I have been invited to weddings, retirement parties, and funerals. Specifically, I had a patient instruct her son to call me to invite me to her funeral. She was very organized.

Another time, I had a patient that was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He called to let me know how much he appreciated our relationship and the many talks that we had in the dental chair. I was very moved.

I always feel honored to be included in those important events in someone’s life. These are their milestones, accomplishments and momentsin their world, and they want to share it with me.

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I always feel honored to be included in those important events in someone’s life. These are their milestones, accomplishments and moments in their world, and they want to share it with me.

This part of my job I love most, the building of relationships.

Many people will ask me if I always knew that I wanted to be a dentist, but the reality is that I could see myself doing a lot of different jobs. The one thing that I would need in a job is the building of relationships. If I fulfill that aspect, then I could see myself liking the job.

I’ve always been apprehensive to the idea of expanding the office because I felt that it would pull me away from my patients and I would need to focus more on business development.

In reality, the part that I love most is the patient-dentist relationship. This is extremely important to me. And this is how I expand my business.

I think a lot of our patients can feel that within the office and that is whythey keep referring their family and friends to us.

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Unfortunately that business model is a dying model. Dentistry is becoming a commodity, and offices have multiple practitioners/dentists seeing the same patient.

Meaning that on any given day, you’ll see one dentist for a procedure and another day you’ll see a different dentist.

This growing business model is the way dentistry is moving towards, and a lot of patients hate it. They are not able to build a relationship with their dentist.

Now, for some people, they don’t care who they see. But for a lot of people, dentistry is a scary thing for them and can cause anxiety. Having consistency with their dentist is essential to having a positive dental experience.

If you are fearful of or have some anxiety about going to the dentist and would like to be treated at a relationship centered dental office, please visit us at mydente.com or call 773-292-1911 to schedule your appointment.

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Floss Like a Madman!

Emilio “Patients = Friends” Couret