Dr. Josh Austin and I agree that our handpiece is the main thing we must have to be able to produce the dollars that we need for everything else to happen in our practices. One way to do this is to opt for a quality handpiece, but that doesn’t always happen.
When a handpiece goes bad, our first instinct is to wonder why it went bad in the first place. Frankly, the maintenance may not be as good as you think it is. Since there are no single-use handpieces, we simply need to maintain them, even the quality ones. It’s an ugly part of dentistry that we’re probably rushing through, but we must change that attitude. We should educate the team and set them up for success to keep our handpieces in top shape.
One system we recommend is the KaVo Quattrocare, and we explain why.
