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Translating a Dream Into a Practice
In a way, Patterson Dental Office Design is a dream translation service.
Each step in the process of building a new office requires a different language, and the Patterson team speaks them all – translating a dentist’s dream practice into reality.

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First, Patterson Dental equipment specialists work closely with dental practices to gain a better understanding of the dentist’s wants and needs, and ultimately what their dream practice would look like.
“We start with a dream,” said Tim King, office designer at the Patterson Greenville Branch. “Some things we may have to trim down over the course of the project, but we like to start by working with the doctor’s dream.”
Members of Patterson’s office design team, like King, work together with equipment specialists to help dentists identify a space for the practice – whether it’s a renovation in a current space or a relocation. Once the space is chosen, Patterson Dental team members serve as guides every step of the way.
Using expert knowledge of the square footage required for a practice to function optimally, and an Office Design Checklist detailing the equipment selections and layouts for each room, office designers craft an initial design for the practice. Then, with feedback from the equipment specialist and dental team, they rework and perfect it until it’s unanimously approved. They’ve designed thousands of dental offices of all shapes and sizes, improving traffic flow, increasing productivity and profitability.
Because equipment specialists partner with the practice, the Patterson team doesn’t just blindly force a dentist’s dream practice into reality. They offer input along the way to ensure the end goal is both an advanced practice and a wise investment.
Finally, through their relationships with contractors and architects in local markets, the team evaluates how to make that refined, translated dream come true. There are three ways that Patterson makes that happen: installation, integration and innovation.