The practice built for people who hate the dentist
Empty chairs are the most expensive thing in dentistry. Here is how one practice turned recall, triage and reminders into a system that fills them.
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A waiting room with no smell
Dr. Ellis spent her twenties watching patients apologise for being frightened. The clove-and-antiseptic smell alone would empty a chair.
When she built Meridian she started with the air, the light and the chairs — then the dentistry.
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The patient who waited eleven years
A man came in with a broken molar and a story: eleven years since his last appointment, after a bad experience at nineteen.
We did nothing on the first visit but talk and take one photograph. He came back four times that year and finished treatment with no sedation.
First practice that explained the cost before doing the work rather than after.
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Start with a conversation, not a chair
Almost every anxious patient asks the same three questions: will it hurt, what will it cost, and how many visits.
We answer those on a ten-minute call, before anyone books anything. Most people are surprised by how short the answers are.
My son actually asks to go. I have no explanation for it.
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