Now we have entered a new year - what has changed? Have you kept your New Year's resolution; eat better, drink less, and those unnecessary extra weights have disappeared from your frame? How about your dental office? Have you implemented your ideas to improve your training and the level of care you provide to patients? Maybe you don't plan to change yourself, and are satisfied with complacency, but dentistry is constantly changing and our patients are constantly changing not only their dental health needs, but also their knowledge and the care they receive.
The Internet and social media are powerful tools for our patients to learn and educate dentistry and technology. We must be prepared to change the way we provide care for patients, and we must continue to develop as we practice. Now I know that some of the principles of dentistry have been shaped and provide a good foundation all year round, but technological changes and continuous improvements have allowed us to improve and provide better care to patients. I believe that change is good. Every January, I sit down and list how I can improve my skills, improve my practice, and improve dental care for my patients. Some typical ideas that emerge year after year are great, but they have never been established, and some ideas are useless. Some duds include: changing our time to adapt to our patients (this never worked); buying supplies on the internet (transactions never sounded as good as they sounded); and services (no). However, some ideas are good ways to improve our practice, such as taking part in innovative continuing education courses or finding new dental equipment - you can only put so much tape on your dental chair! Then there is technology, I believe:
New technology is what our patients expect
New technology makes dentistry better
New technology is the cause of dental pleasure
Every year we are studying new technologies and how they can be improved; if the price falls; or if it is really effective. One technique that continues to be at the forefront of dentistry is the clinical use of lasers in dentistry. The efficiency of laser cutting of hard tissues (Grades 1-6) can now be compared to high-speed mobile phones without damaging side effects. The programs they can use cover the entire dental spectrum and the price has now entered every dental clinic. So why do so many dentists continue to postpone what I think is the standard of dental care? As a dentist for 25 years, I believe I know some of the answers to this question. One of them is the fear of change. How do we overcome the fear of change and possible technological failure?
Advances in laser technology make this the best time to introduce this technology into your practice and make this year your best year.
So let's take a few minutes to see how dentists drive technology, how dentists fear technology, and how lasers can help improve the quality of care we provide to patients. I believe that every dentist can benefit from laser technology and I will outline how they can achieve this goal and improve their bottom line. As a dentist and have trained thousands of dentists using lasers, I can provide a unique perspective on how lasers change your practice this year.
I believe most dentists (most people) are a little scared of change. The old proverb "If it is not broken, it will not repair it" still resonates in many offices. This can lead to complacentness or a degree of comfort, but usually some degree of comfort can cause the same frustrations over and over again, for example, because the tissue or submarine margins are too large or can't properly fill in and contour down the V class. How we treat periodontal disease and our dental predictability can also cause stress in the daily practice of dentistry, and the evolving challenges of providing the best aesthetics in our cosmetic surgery can sometimes be difficult to achieve. We know that there are ways to improve patient care, and the most common method is to use lasers. Laser technology has a place in the arena so that we can execute a large number of programs to complement the tools we use every day. Examples of useful laser programs include:
Tissue profile and crown extension, minimal bleeding or tissue damage.
Revealing the profitability of your underworld makes the impression of the crown and the bridge more predictable.
Cosmetics provide extra special aesthetic effects.
Assisted periodontal treatment provides a new level of periodontal treatment in a less invasive, patient-friendly manner.
Laser pulp sterilization technology has been shown to greatly enhance the disinfection of apical 1/3 canals.
More and more routine surgery can be done with lasers, but perhaps the biggest breakthrough in laser technology is hard tissue cutting. The laser has already achieved the "co" as fast as "high-speed mobile phones." In most cases, lasers can cut enamel and dentin with the same efficiency as high speed, with little or no local anesthetic.
After teaching thousands of doctors to use all tissue lasers (YSGG), I can say that most people are skeptical about the speed at which we start training, but believe in their ability when we finish. The most common response after the patient's first preparation was "It is much faster than I thought." Overcoming this hurdle, seeing all the day-to-day applications of dental clinic lasers, time and time again to add laser dentists to the front of the most desired technology list in their practice.
As lasers become more affordable, which dentists have incorporated laser dentistry into their practice? I believe this is a fear of change. All dentists have this fear - some people are more easily overcome. The laser is safe, easy to use, and the learning curve is not difficult. There are so many benefits that we cannot continue to ignore this technology. Plus our patients like new technology and want to be part of it, and you have a win-win situation. This technique allows us to complete more surgery (less referral) more efficiently (without anesthetic multi-quadrant dental surgery) and to impress patients (recovery surgery for uninfed infants). Amazing - now you can use it.
Now that we have entered the new year, our commitment to ourselves has largely disappeared. I feel that it is time to start work and reflect on our commitment to patients - continue to provide the highest level of dental care and self - to continue learning and new technologies Openness, self-education, and above all, elimination of complacency that we sometimes fall into.
I believe that dentists are the most compassionate people on the planet and have been providing their patients with the best dental supplies and treatment, but sometimes we need a little push; we need a little change - laser dentistry can provide this change. Advances in laser technology make this the best time to introduce this technology into your practice and make this year your best year.
