Emotional dentistry – presenting treatment options and progress to your patient

Emotional dentistry – presenting treatment options and progress to your patient

For any dental treatment, the dialogue between the professional and the patient is decisive to find the most appropriate treatment and achieve the best result.

Emotional dentistry focuses on establishing effective and beneficial communication for both parties, which results in greater patient satisfaction. Some of the pillars of this technique is the practice of active listening, and patient participation.

Salud Dental Management System has features to assist patients in seeing and understanding the treatment options and prices offered, and It also provides the patient and dental professional an overview of the treatment plan progress.

Salud Periodontal Chart:

On the left-hand side of your screen, you can see the Salud scoring categories that can be easily expanded out.

Once all information is plotted in Salud, we can check the overall score and the graphic view.

The graph view in Salud can be used as a patient education tool, where dental professionals can present all information to the patient and show the treatment progress.

In Salud, you can also easily view a comparison over time, where you can easily select any periodontal scoring category to check the patient progress.

Emotion is key – building connections with patients

Practising emotional intelligence in a dental organisation is increasingly necessary. Today, patients are looking for professionals who can listen to their needs and present practical solutions to their problems. The patients want to be fully informed and equipped to make decisions about their treatment.

Here are some tips for building a good connection with your patients:

  • Listen carefully to what the patients mean, not just what they say.
  • Empathise with patients’ struggles.
  • Offer encouragement to your patient.
  • Encourage patient participation.

Presenting treatment options to the patient to choose from is an excellent way to build a trusting relationship.

In Salud, after the patient receives the dentist’s diagnosis, different treatment options can be presented to the patient.

Salud has easy drag and drop functionality for creating treatment plan options. The patient can clearly see the treatments within each plan, and the cost associated. Once your patient has considered their options, they can digitally sign consent for their preferred plan.

Dentists use a wide variety of strategies to have some emotional connection with the patient. Listening carefully to patients and understanding their necessities is essential; the use of technologies can assist your organisation in facilitating these connections.

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Sustainability is growing and making moves in dentistry

Sustainability is growing and making moves in dentistry

The word “sustainability” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? Put simply, sustainability is all about being responsible for natural resources.

In dentistry, sustainability means that waste must be handled in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

Reducing the amount of waste produced can be tricky in the healthcare sector, but it is still possible.

Auditing how much waste is thrown away regularly should give your organisation an idea of items that are being overbought.

Additionally, switching to recyclable and compostable items that can break down naturally helps to reduce the amount of waste that is produced.

Reducing the amount of paper can also have a huge impact.

Have you already thought about the advantages of a paperless organization?

Modern technologies – good for patient outcomes and our planet

  • Running a paperless organisation will have a positive effect on the environment.

  • Creating a paperless organisation will save a lot of physical space, as most records will be stored online instead of keeping paper files.

  • Apart from saving space, another benefit of a paperless organisation is that it will also have a significant effect on expenditure.
    Less space means less money spent on renting/maintaining that space.

  • Timesaving: You will not have to go through every patient record to find a file; with Salud, you can easily find what you are looking for with a few clicks.

  • Easy access to a patient record from anywhere.

  • Far greater data capture capability with automated consolidation from all areas and locations.


Investing in technologies allows organisations to provide treatment that is quicker, more accurate, and more comfortable for patients.

With Salud, you can instantly access an up-to-date, patient record for every patient, saving hours of admin time and removing the risk of misplaced, incomplete or lost patient data.

Salud dental management software has several benefits that can increase efficiency. The software provides tools to facilitate core functions such as charting, billing, and administration.

These functions are immediately available to all departments, enabling coordination from all area’s enterprise-wide.

All dental specialities are catered for too with specialised charts which can be switched on or off depending on your organisation’s requirements.

The primary goal of Salud is to capture patient care information systematically and securely. 

Our solution allows professionals to reduce costs and time associated with physical file management and data entry; it reduces errors and allows the dental professional to focus on what matters – the patient.

Salud can help dental organizations streamline, automate, and manage data while the dentist can focus on the patient.

With easy patient registration, a flexible appointment system and easy access to patient records from anywhere, Salud ensure easy adoption by all end users.

Complete your digital transformation with Salud.

The protection of the environment is up to all of us.

Dental practitioners can make better choices to help to reduce their carbon footprint and help build more sustainable dental organisations. What change will you make?

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