You don't need a different practice management system. What you need is a way to make the one you have better! That's what PLZ does. You need practice management extension software. That's what PLZ is.

You want your practice to be more profitable, right? Or maybe you want to work less, but be just as profitable. In today's competitive environment, you can't get there doing things the way you've always done them. It takes a comprehensive approach to managing your practice. You need:

  • 100% automated communications directly with your patients
  • External marketing through traditional and electronic media for a healthy new patient flow
  • Systems that work better than what you do now, but that take significantly less staff time
  • Better management information, along with analysis of that information, delivered to you automatically

There isn't a single practice management system ("PMS") in dentistry that provides even one of these four things! All of the major PMS's were designed more than 15 years ago, before most of us ever heard the word "Internet". Back when it was easy to make money in dentistry. When having a computer print insurance forms and statements was still pretty amazing. The world has changed a lot since then, but dental PMS's have not.

Unfortunately, if you switch from one PMS to another, you will: 

  • Spend a lot of cash, lose a lot of production, and disrupt your practice for months 
  • Trade one set of deficienies for another set (they ALL have significant deficiencies) 
  • Lose whatever features about your current PMS that you do like 
  • Lose a lot of history and other valuable information in the data conversion

Introducing Practice Management... EXTENDED!

Lighthouse PMG has decades of experience in creating practice management and patient education software, hands-on management of a million dollar practice, and consulting for hundreds of practices. We've used that experience to create an exciting new kind of software for dentistry - "practice management extension" software. We call it PLZ (just say "please").

PLZ is the world’s first practice management extension system. It integrates with your existing PMS, greatly extending its capabilities and preserving its value to your practice. You continue to use your PMS for most things - patient data entry, scheduling, billing, insurance - the things that PMS's are good at. Every ten minutes, key data from your PMS is synchronized with PLZ, so it can do:

  • Things your PMS was never intended to do (example: Direct Mail Marketing to attract new patients)
  • Things your PMS can't do because, technologically, it's ancient (examples: sending text messages; giving you access to your appointment book on an iPhone)
  • Things your PMS does, but that it does very poorly (example: managing your recall system)
  • Total automation of things your PMS does OK, except for the fact that they have to be started by a human being (example: perform regular "chart audits" that identify patients who have slipped through the cracks of all your other systems)
  • Actual practice management tasks (example: constant monitoring of your most important practice statistics, and automatic alerts to you when any of them indicate a potential problem)

We've learned a few things from all of our consulting: it's difficult to get people to do new things; it's very difficult to get them to do things consistently; it's practically impossible to get them to do things without errors. And all of these are even MORE true whenever there's staff turnover. They're human, and that's just the way humans are. That's why virtually everything PLZ does is 100% automatic: once it's set up, things just happen! (examples: all external marketing mailings, all routine patient communications, daily, weekly and monthly management reporting.)

Everything PLZ does... it does better than your PMS does it!

Click here to see exactly what it is PLZ does

CAESY and PracticeWorks ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF PATTERSON DENTAL SUPPLY, INC. AND CARESTREAM HEALTH, INC. RESPECTIVELY. LIGHTHOUSE PMG HAS NO AFFILATION WITH EITHER COMPANY.