Dental Hygiene Production
The total revenue attributable specifically to services provided by dental hygienists, reported separately from dentist-generated production.
Full Definition
Dental hygiene production is a sub-category of total practice production, tracking the monetary value of all services performed by or attributed to the hygiene department, including prophylaxis, periodontal maintenance, scaling and root planing, and fluoride treatments. Many practice management systems allow hygiene production to be tracked independently to evaluate the department's contribution and productivity. Editors should not conflate dental hygiene production with total practice production or with collections, as these are distinct financial metrics. It appears in hygiene department reports, production-per-day analyses, and staffing justification documents.
Usage
Usage note: Clarify whether production figures cited are gross or adjusted. Hygiene production may be listed as a dollar amount or as a percentage of total practice production.
In Context
- "Dental hygiene production accounted for 31% of the practice's total adjusted production last quarter." — Quarterly practice performance report
- "Editors should flag any passage that uses 'hygiene production' interchangeably with 'total production', as these are separate KPIs." — Editorial checklist for practice management reports