Inspired Hygiene - Helping Dentists Tap Into Hygiene's Profit Potential

08/06/2026

While most people are winding down the summer our coaches are hitting the road.

August is one of our busiest months and we love that. Because the practices investing in their hygiene departments right now are the ones who are going to finish the year strong.

Here is where the Inspired Hygiene coaching team will be in August:

Emme Sanders, RDH will be delivering in person coaching with IH clients in Hanover, Massachusetts and Bingham Farms, Michigan.

Kathryn Kamish Gilliam, RDH will be speaking at Ensign Academy in Provo, Utah and then heading to Cincinnati, Ohio for a calibration and coaching visit with one of our amazing client teams.

Connie Simmons, RDH will be coaching a large team in Woodstock, Georgia.

Every visit is a practice deciding that they are done waiting for things to get better on their own and ready to invest in real, lasting change in their hygiene department.

If your practice is thinking about what the last quarter of the year could look like with the right support behind your hygiene team, now is a great time to start that conversation.

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08/04/2026

In this episode of Season 5 of the Inspired Hygiene Podcast, Rachel sits down with Katherine Eitel Belt, founder and CEO of LionSpeak, to talk about one of the most overlooked barriers to growth in dental practices. Limiting beliefs.

Beliefs like our patients will only accept what insurance pays for. Or I do not want to diagnose treatment I cannot schedule for months. These beliefs feel like facts. But they are not facts. They are walls and on the other side of those walls are possibilities that most hygienists never get to see.

Katherine shares that the worst case scenario of challenging a belief is that you challenge it and decide you still believe the same thing. There is no downside to asking the question. But there is a very real cost to never asking it.

This is the mindset element of the Inspired Hygiene System coming to life in the most practical and powerful way.

New episode is live. Listen to it here, https://inspiredhygiene.com/podcast/

08/04/2026

Fantastic team looking for a fantastic team member in Ohio.

08/03/2026

08/03/2026

Hiring a hygienist right now? The practices finding great candidates aren't waiting — they're showing up everywhere. Here's what's working (and one thing to stop doing in your job posting). Resources in comments.

07/30/2026

Great clinical care runs on great systems behind the scenes.

Florida Probe Corporation and DentalHQ are two of the partners making that possible. Thank you both for supporting Inspired Hygiene and for making it easier for practices to deliver exceptional care to their patients.

07/29/2026

Clinician driven in-office care paired with patient driven at-home care is the best recipe for healing and prevention.

We’re proud to recognize Philips Oral Healthcare as a long standing partner of Inspired Hygiene. Philips supports practices in elevating patient care by providing homecare tools and technology that help hygienists reinforce strong clinical recommendations and support better outcomes beyond the dental chair.

Thank you, Philips, for your continued support of Inspired Hygiene and the teams we serve!

07/28/2026

A well-run hygiene schedule doesn't happen by accident, it happens when the team has the right tools behind them.

MaxAssist gives practices exactly that: AI-powered scheduling and the systems that keep schedules full and running smoothly, so clinicians can focus on the patient in front of them.

Thank you, MaxAssist, for supporting Inspired Hygiene and for helping practices operate at their best.

07/27/2026

Here's something we don't say enough: financial barriers shouldn't be the reason a patient doesn't get the care they need.

That's why we're grateful for CareCredit. Their support helps make treatment accessible — which means more patients saying yes to the care you recommend.

Thank you, CareCredit, for supporting Inspired Hygiene and for helping close that gap for practices everywhere.

07/24/2026

Your clinical standard of care should never be written by an insurance company.

And yet it happens every single day in dental practices across the country. A patient needs treatment. Insurance denies it. Someone on the team says we cannot do that because insurance will not cover it. And just like that the recommendation stops.

Here is the distinction that every dental team needs to understand. Benefit criteria and diagnostic criteria are not the same thing.

What an insurance company will pay for and what is clinically appropriate for your patient are two completely different standards. When we treat them like they are the same we hand our clinical authority over to an insurance plan.

A real example. A patient was treatment planned for a crown due to bruxism. The plan only covered crowns for traumatic injury or significant decay. Insurance denied it. But the clinical need did not change. The tooth still needed that crown.

The same thing happens in periodontal care all the time. Radiographic calculus may be required for an insurance benefit for scaling and root planing. But radiographic calculus is not required for you to diagnose periodontal disease. Those are two different standards.

Document the clinical case. Present what the patient needs. Let the insurance conversation be separate from the clinical recommendation.

You set the standard of care. Not the insurance company.

Rachel dives deeper on all of this in our latest blog and video including three things your team can do right now. Read it by heading to the link in our bio.

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