Dental Spa Essay

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Dental Spa Dental Spa is the new concept of making the doom and gloom of the dental chair a thing of the past. The idea of bringing all the amenities of a day spa to the dentist, with the hopes that clients will enjoy the idea of heading to the dentist instead of loathing it. 1. Which one of the three new service requirements would a dental spa least likely pass: service experience fit, operational fit or financial impact? Why? As discussed in the text, two major trends have fuelled the growth of dental spas: improving the painful associations of dentistry and the increased cosmetic focus of dentistry that goes along with other spa treatments. The odd one out is financial impact, which prior to reading this statement was the preconceived issue with this idea. The dentist is already a very costly experience, why would an individual wish to burden that any further? I believe that the financial impact will be the least significant and will least likely pass. One may argue that someone would pay any amount to feel relaxed and happy when at the dentist instead of feeling worried or scared but it will be so hard and take a considerable amount of time and money to distinguish pain and un-comfortableness that comes with the connotation of going to the dentist. This will be a costly exercise when people are paying a premium and may not wish to stretch there budgets any further, coupled with the fact that most insurance companies are stringent enough allowing simple checkups, they are not going to be allowing a full body massage to be included in the monthly insurance premium. 2. What are some of the main areas of complexity and divergence in this kind of operation relative to the standard dental clinic? As previously mentioned the overall costs of implementing new electronics and vibrant color schemes to match will be a divergence from the traditional dental clinic
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