In 1990, Dr. Hans Herchen purchased his first office in Kingsway Garden Mall. In the preliminary years of his practice, Dr. Herchen provided both dental care and periodontal care to his patients. He hired his first hygienist in 1997, and from then on starting building a top notch dental team.
Dr. Herchen saw value in investing in his staff’s development and also in sharing his overall vision with his team as it pushed them to work towards a common goal. He knew early on that he had more to offer than dental services; his strong leadership skills and passion for business pushed him to attempt recreating the success at Kingsway. He decided to buy his second dental office and try to replicate his operations, business strategy, and vision. Then the rest of the offices followed…
Development
Dental Choice story is a true Canadian success story that proves team work, patient care, leadership, and courage can build a successful health care company.
In his early years of practice, Dental Choice founder Dr. Hans Herchen quickly realized that attention to detail and dedicated patient care leads to long term loyalty and to great success. Patients, staff and dentists all aligned in the Dental Choice culture which focused on attentiveness in practice, transparency, and open communication.
Over the years, business systems, leadership skills and entrepreneurial drive were all developed and combined together to build the Dental Choice group practice which resulted in increasing office numbers, patient numbers and stakeholder satisfaction. Dr. Hans Herchen’s models of management and operations became easy to be replicated, making running an office a simple process to follow for all dentists and practices looking for support.