It's much cheaper if you can get the client to do all the work.
The best example of this are online forms for information.
It used to be the case that the company had to pay someone to sit down and write your details on a form but now they get you to fill out the form yourself and make sure it's correct which takes no man power at all once the website is set up.
You can expand this concept dramatically to make more and more money regardless of the level of care you provide. It's worth checking out this website right here for the best example of that. It really is important that you click that pink link before you carry on with this.
So now you've returned from reading the link it has inspired me into a new concept for self-service dentistry called 'Yank your own Wizzies'
It's directed at people who have had significant problems with their wisdom teeth yet don't have the time or particularly the money to invest in having the teeth taken out 'properly' by someone allegedly calling themselves a qualified dentist.
The format is as follows:
1. You qualify if you're a patient who has sore teeth somewhere round about the back of your mouth which might be the area of your wisdom teeth.
2. Take a photograph of the wisdom teeth by sticking your iPhone in your mouth and not breathing.
3. Send us the photograph.
4. Regardless of the quality of the photograph or what it actually shows, we will send (sell) you a relatively disposable diagnostic kit to diagnose your own wisdom teeth. This will include the following:
- A plastic, bendy dental probe.
- A plastic, bendy dental mirror that doesn't show anything.
- An 'on loan' hand held x-ray device with a film to provide a lateral oblique x-ray and some toxic disposable chemicals.
You will be able to probe around the tooth, look at it the mirror and take a lateral oblique x-ray.
5. Using the x-ray and a template that we give you, you will be able to decide whether it is actually the wisdom tooth that is affected and how difficult or easy it would be to take it out on a 1 - 10 scale.
6. If it falls below 9 we will allow you to take it out and send (sell) you a removal kit.
The removal kit itself contains:
- One cartridge of local anaesthetic (barely in date).
- A disposable needle which probably hasn't been used by anyone else.
- A plastic, bendy disposable scalpel from China which is as cheap as possible and not sharp.
- A wheel brace.
7. We will give you a step by step diagram guide on how to take your wisdom tooth out using the kit, after which you will be required to return the hand held x-ray unit or you will be liable for a fee of £5,000 (which we will have already collected on your credit card).
It's a simple model to remove the strangle hold that these 'so-called qualified professionals' have over the wisdom tooth market. It puts the power back into the hands of the consumers and de-regulates things.
(As an aside - we sit outside of the legal framework of your native country and therefore you have no come back in problems occur)
Dentists in the UK are being raked over the coals for utterly ridiculous, trumped up charges apparently provided by people who have little knowledge on clinic care while people from barely outside our borders are able to do complex Orthodontics by post.
Blog Post Number: 1090
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