How much of the diagnostic visit time should the dental doctor actually be present versus delegated to the team? Anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of the visit in a mixed-flow practice, and 50 percent or more in a pure complex-case practice. The remainder is handled by trained team members. In a mixed practice running both routine and complex work, the doctor's time is the scarcest resource and gets allocated across many patient flows. Diagnostic visits in this environment typically have multiple assistants handling imaging, photography, charting, paperwork, history collection, and other workup steps in parallel, with the doctor stepping in [...]