Digital Dentistry - What is it Really?
Pinhas Adar MDT, CDT ☆☆☆☆☆
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Pinhas Adar MDT, CDT ☆☆☆☆☆
★ Master Ceramist ★ Keynote Speaker ★ Adar Success Academy ★ Million Dollar Coach ★ Author ★ Esthetic Restorations
Part 1 in a series of articles on Digital Dentistry
The digital age has made knowledge plentiful. With a click of a mouse, our patients can take an active role in their own dental health. How wonderful it would be if knowledge were the only requirement needed. Proper processing of newly learned knowledge is needed to form an action plan or the knowledge will help with nothing. Keeping up with the latest products in the dental field is a full-time job in and of itself. The different options change the demands of our patients, making our job of knowing, with a certain accuracy, all of the products as well as the options and possible implications of the dental care that we choose for that particular patient.
Since the mere action of telling a patient what is needed in their particular case is not just “selling” a product, but we are actually asking them to invest in our expertise in the procedure. So we owe it to our patients to know which product is best for their particular case but also how that product works, what is the preparation design needed for that product and what are the limitations of it. Knowing all of this is necessary to know what is needed to get the best possible result and make for a happy patient, doctor and technician.
A treatment plan is anything said prior to doing the treatment. Once the treatment is done, everything said is an excuse. If a dental professional offers a patient a treatment option and does uotknow how the product will react in that patient’s particular scenario, a disservice is done to all involved.
Digital technology is definitely a time saver and source of profit. But technology is also constantly changing and quite expensive. So to be successful in investing in technology pieces, several things need to be considered. Things like what makes this piece of technology unique? hat is the learning curve? Will the patients like it? Will the manufacturer be around when they are needed? Will it be reliable? What is the return on investment on that particular piece of technology?
Stay tuned for part II in this series on Digital Technology.
Thanks to my Atlanta team Ash, Mika, Debby, Marcia and Jenny. See chapter 25 for my entire write up in this book:
