11th Annual Damon Forum

More Value for Your Practice

The Damon System can help your practice reach new heights in efficiency by speeding patient treatment in fewer appointments while delivering remarkable results. That means more flexibility in patient scheduling, more opportunity for revenue growth and more value to your bottom line.

“Initially, I was concerned about the increased supply costs of the Damon System, but the reduced treatment time and improved clinical and practice efficiency more than justify the cost difference in my practice.”
– Dr. Jayme Adelsperger
Brownsburg, IN

Faster Treatment, Fewer Appointments

As demonstrated by independent studies, the clinically proven Damon System can decrease patient treatment time by up to seven months while dramatically reducing the number of patient appointments. This gives you the flexibility to streamline office hours and patient scheduling and allows you to concentrate on growing your practice.


Conventional Brakets*

Avg. Self-Ligating Brackets

Damon System*

Total Treatment Time
27.5 Months
23.0 Months
20.3 Months
Number of Appointments
31.0
20.0
10.2
Appointment Intervals
4-6 Weeks
4-6 Weeks
8-10 Weeks
*Tagawa D. Clinical Impressions 2006; 15-1
www.gacincvation.com. May 7, 2007.
“With the Damon System, 80% of my cases are 80% complete in eight months. My patients are thrilled!”
– Dr. Alan Bagden
Springfield, VA

More Growth, Higher Profits

Whether your objective is to grow patient starts, increase revenue or improve profitability, the Damon System gives your practice a distinct competitive edge. By treating patients faster and in fewer appointments, you can improve financial performance and take advantage of new opportunities for growth – without adding new staff.

  • Maintain current staffing levels and active cases in treatment while expanding annual patient starts by approximately 35%
  • Grow monthly revenue per patient by more than 35% without increasing treatment fees
  • Grow annual revenue by more than 35% while reducing overall expenses as a percent of revenue
  • Grow annual net income by more than 70%
“Our practice is far more profitable. We’re now finishing cases seven months faster and with far fewer appointments.”
– Dr. Derick Tagawa
Brea, CA

Greater Capacity, More Flexibility

The Damon System helps you increase capacity to handle a greater volume of active cases or ease patient scheduling to offer more flexible office hours. Adjust your office hours to reduce stress, accommodate a more relaxing lifestyle or provide a higher degree of personalized patient care. You can even reallocate your existing labor resources to focus on other activities like marketing your practice. With the Damon System, you can manage your case load with greater flexibility than ever before.

  • Accommodate a large volume of active cases while reducing operating hours by as much as 50%
  • Improve labor efficiency by up to 38% for greater flexibility in scheduling staff and patients
“Since using the Damon System, we’ve increased our patient starts by 40% while reducing our total days worked per year from 200 to 120 days.”
– Dr. Jeff Kozlowski

Improved Weekly Scheduling Efficiency

The Damon System lengthens appointment intervals for more efficient patient scheduling while allowing you to handle equivalent case volumes. Instead of scheduling a patient every 4-6 weeks, schedule the same patient every 8-10 weeks and free up significant time in your weekly schedule.

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“With the Damon System we've eliminated RPEs and most other auxiliary items.”
– Dr. Bob Waugh
Athens, GA

Damon Dollars & Sense

Compared with conventionally-ligated and active self-ligating brackets, the Damon System enables a practice to operate more efficiently and with greater capacity. For example, using the Damon System, a practice that averages 250 patient starts per year can easily accommodate a 36% increase in starts while maintaining the same active case load. The practice also benefits from fewer appointments per day and greater opportunity for revenue growth and improved profitability. That same practice also has the option of maintaining its current patient starts level while enjoying a flex-time schedule with fewer office days.

More Patient Starts, Revenue & Income

 

More Flexible Schedule


Conventional Brackets
Avg. Self-Ligating Brackets
Damon System
Damon System
Starts/Years
250
299
339 (+36%)
250
Active Cases/Year
573
573
573
423
Total Appointments/Day*
46
38
29
29
Operating Days/Week
4
4
4
2.5 (-38%)
Monthly Revenue/Patient**
$182 $217 $246 (+35%)
$246 (+35%)
Annual Revenue
$1.25mm
$1.47mm
$1.69mm (+35%)
$1.25mm
Annual Expenses (% of Revenue)
55% 47% 43%
Net Income $562,500 $789,902 $962,958 (+71%)

* Includes retainer checks, recalls, new consults and emergencies
**Assumes $5,000 treatment fee per patienti
Includes additional expenses for auxiliary appliances