619: The Next Big Thing in Dentistry - Dr. Christian Coachman&Philippe Salah - a podcast by ACT Dental

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The Next Big Thing in Dentistry

Episode #619 with Dr. Christian Coachman & Philippe Salah

You don't have 24/7 access to your patients’ mouths — until now! Today, Kirk Behrendt brings back Dr. Christian Coachman, founder of Digital Smile Design, and Philippe Salah, CEO of Dental Monitoring, to introduce a revolutionary system that will help you monitor your patients’ oral health in real time. With DM, you can optimize the care you give before, during, and after their time in your chair. Prevention and maintenance have never been easier! To learn more about the next big thing in dentistry, listen to Episode 619 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

Remote dental care is possible and powerful.

Dental Monitoring cuts down wasted appointment time.

DM will detect problems much faster than standard appointments.

Using DM, you know exactly when and what treatment patients need.

Remote care is already the standard in medicine. Start using it in dentistry.

Quotes:

“When you are doing treatment for your patient, you never know what is happening when you don't see your patient — when the patient is at home. And you all know, especially in orthodontics, that the clinical relevance, the clinical action, is happening outside your practice. [Dental Monitoring] brings you back necessary information to be able to drive the treatment in the best direction possible at every moment during the treatment. So, how does it work? It’s very simple. Your patient gets a smartphone. From that, we take several pictures — more than 100 pictures, automatically with our system, with a pretty cool way of taking them. From that, we use these pictures — taken by the smartphone, not your patient — and we triage lots of clinical notifications where we indicate to you, to the orthodontist, if there is some concern or great achievement that you want to communicate with the patient. Or maybe it will trigger an appointment. Or the opposite — it will trigger, ‘No need to see my patient.’ So, for the first time in dentistry, we really synchronize the delivery of care with the need of care. You see the patient as much as you need to see them, and at the right moment. Never less, never too much.” (3:53—5:11) -Philippe

“[Dental Monitoring is] like taking care of the patient before they are sitting in your chair, and after they are sitting in your dental chair. If you count all the hours that somebody lives in a full year, maybe the patient is one, two, or three hours in your dental chair...

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