Insites Issue # 1 - May/June 2021

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INSITES Your Centaur Bi-Monthly eMag

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Hello & welcome to Centaur's very first bi-monthly eMag.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

Here you'll find all things dentistry, with highlights on industry trends & news, helpful tips & tricks for your practice, upcoming events and webinars and the inside scoop on the faces behind Centaur!

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FROM WINDOWS TO WEB IN 2021 GET TO KNOW DENTAL4WEB INCREASE TREATMENT PLAN ACCEPTANCE AND IMPROVE PATIENT EDUCATION

OUR WEBINARS

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Michael Sokol and Yuri Tsimbler worked from the back room of the Hurlstone Park surgery.

Dental4Windows started out by being shared with fellow dentists and improvements were made to the software on the feedback that was received.

Fast forward to 2020, Centaur Software has become Australia’s leading provider of practice management software products and services and is showing no sign of slowing down.

The champion product, Dental4Windows, has expanded greatly in recent years with full integration with eAppointments (online bookings), eForms (electronic forms), Centaur Software Co-Founder, Dr Frank Papadopoulos

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS FROM WINDOWS TO WEB IN 2021

by Rebecca Elms

In today’s world, we are always looking for ways to be more efficient with our time. Most of the time we can implement software or an app to assist with time management.

When Dr Frank Papadopoulos started his practice in Hurlstone Park in 1989, practice management software was created by companies who did not understand the needs of Australian dentists. With that in mind, Frank began designing a practice management software system that would come to be known as Dental4Windows.

Centaur Software, which was established in 1992, had very humble beginnings. Dr Frank Papadopoulos and his partners,

National Dental Plan powered by Humm (interest free finance) and D4W Marketing (marketing portal) – all of which are webbased services.

“As computerisation in dentistry showed its business value, it became almost a standard tool to help run a dental business. However, this comes at a cost of time and money.

"With the advancements today, web-based software offers many advantages.”

Dr Papadopoulos.

The way practices use Dental4Windows is also set to change again in 2021, with the popular practice management software, expanding into a web-based platform.

Dental4Web will give flexibility to dental practitioners, allowing them to securely access their practice management system from anywhere, at any time...

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GET TO KNOW Dental4Web includes the features you know and love - now with more benefits to the practice to enable your growth and success.

Lower Running Costs D4Web delivers low upfront costs, with predictable monthly costs, without the need for any additional hardware (e.g expensive servers).

Flexibility No need to be chained at the office to do work. Work from anywhere there is internet - Freedom to log in at home, work or at a conference, at any time of the day or night when it suits you.

Security Over 50% of businesses with computers neglect to run updates to their local PC OS, and these updates contain many security patches. D4Web will encompass frequent security patches in real-time.

Data Backups No more manual data backups, D4Web will automatically backup your data, stored securely on Amazon Web Servers.

Anytime, Any Device Web based systems can generally operate on Windows, Mac OS, or Linux and Android, PCs or Tablets even.

Want to find out more?

Watch our explainer video & register your interest HERE

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INCREASE TREATMENT PLAN ACCEPTANCE AND IMPROVE PATIENT EDUCATION

by Kath Lewis Dental patient education can be one of the most impactful steps to guiding an individual to better oral health outcomes and converting treatment plans.

The following are five distinct ways to give your patients more information about their conditions and potential treatment options in ways they will understand and appreciate.

1. Educate your staff members extensively 2. Offer online patient education resources 3. Create a great waiting room experience

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4. Augment chairside education with technology 5. Get patients’ senses involved

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OUR UPCOMING WEBINARS //

MAY - JULY

All Webinars are FREE to attend and a recording of each webinar will be sent to everyone who registers!

MARKETING MYTHS EXPOSED

BEST WORKFLOW TO PROCESS PAYMENTS

Dr Jesse Green - 12th of May

Ana Ogier - 2nd & 3rd of June

Discover how to take a strategic overview of your marketing

Learn the importance of understanding how the payment process works within D4W

Dr Jesse Green will cover:

This webinar will cover how to:

Why most marketing agents are better at marketing themselves than your practice Common marketing mistakes The 3 R’s of a marketing plan

Apply discounts and allocate payments Create deposits Receive Health Fund and Medicare payments Apply installments to an invoice

Building marketing assets that work 24/7 5 Marketing rules to follow

Register here

Register here

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ENHANCE YOUR PATIENT EXPERIENCE WITH ONLINE BOOKINGS

HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH TREATMENT PLANS

Linda Hunter & Daniel Hill - 23rd & 24th June

Ana Ogier & Linda Hunter - 27th & 28th July

Online services are dominating any market in today's world and dentistry is no different

Discover how to use and create treatment plans

During this webinar you will discover how to

During this webinar you will discover how to

optimise your online bookings for your

use and create treatment plans that allow for

practice and how to measure results.

easy management and reporting within Dental4Windows.

If you do not have an online presence, you are most likely missing out on many

We will also cover how to present Treatment

opportunities to increase your business and

Plans to patients to increase acceptance and

create a relationship with your new and

grow your business.

existing patients.

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