Are your transfer-in patients a financial loss? Are they difficult to treat with the other orthodontist’s mechanotherapy? Is there patient/family resentment that you or the other orthodontist might be taking advantage of them? This pearl may help you to avoid all that.
You need to deal with your transfer-in patients in such a way as to avoid loosing money, frustrating yourself and making the patient feel that they have been taken advantage of.
You need to avoid the pitfalls of providing their treatment with their mechanotherapy and philosophies. You must have the satisfaction of providing your treatment with your mechanotherapy and philosophy.
Unless you are treating a transfer into retention treatment or a patient with numerous siblings who need treatment, you need to have a consistent manner of dealing with transfer patients—see the attached PDF for more detail.
If you want to provide an Ultimate New Patient Experience for that patient and yourself, then you might find “The Ultimate New Patient Experience Kit” of value to you.
