Start Off the New Year with New Systems Seize opportunities to organize and systematize your practice The new year is a great time for practice owners to pause and reflect on the previous year's missed opportunities. It's easy to fall into patterns of doing things the same way because you have always done them that way. But those missed opportunities create stress and cause the practice to lose patients and income. The majority of the time, practice owners have not created workable systems and put them in writing for the team to learn and follow. The only way for a practice to produce predictable results and avoid missed opportunities is to have the team create consistent actions that align with proven systems. Here are five of the most common missed opportunities in dental practices, along with how you can expose them and take control. 62 JANUARY 2018 // dentaltown.comhttp://www.dentaltown.com