Working document
The Overdue Hygiene Recall Reset Checklist
Four stages and twenty steps for taking a neglected hygiene recall list and turning it into seated patients without breaking a rule or annoying a patient.
Free resources
Resources for One to Three Chair Dental Practices
Working tools for the people who run small dental offices: two calculators, a recall reset checklist, and straight comparisons against the platforms you are probably also considering.
Everything here is built for the same reader: an owner or office manager in a practice with one to three chairs, where the hygiene column is the production engine and nobody has a marketing department to lean on. The calculators use numbers from your own fee schedule and payroll. The checklist is a document you can print and work from. The comparisons name real alternatives and describe honestly which kind of office each one suits.
None of it requires a ChairGap account. If the calculators tell you your overdue list is small and your front desk has the hours to call it, that is a useful answer and you should keep doing what you are doing. The material is here because a small practice deciding how to handle hygiene recall deserves the arithmetic and the trade offs in plain sight before anyone talks about software.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Small Dental Practices
Two quick tools that put numbers on the two things a small practice argues about most, the value sitting in the overdue hygiene list and the front desk time it takes to chase it.
Comparisons
How ChairGap Compares to Dental Patient Communication Software
ChairGap does one job for a one to three chair practice and the bigger platforms below do many, so the right pick depends on how much of your front office you want a vendor to run.
Main guide
How to Run a Same Week Hygiene Gap Fill in a Small Practice
It settles exactly how a small practice turns tomorrow's open hygiene hours into seated patients, step by step, from pulling the overdue list to confirming the last seat.
Magazine
The Open Chair
Hygiene recall, scheduling, insurance and the working economics of a one to three chair dental practice in the US.
About
Who writes all of this
The publisher behind ChairGap, why the product exists and the standards the writing is held to.
When you want the tool rather than the worksheet
Fill tomorrow's empty hygiene chairs by texting the patients who are already overdue for a cleaning.