Quality of Care
From start to finish, dental practices who choose glidewell.io for their digital workflow gain an incredible boost in the level of quality care they provide. Since every restoration is created in-office, doctors and their staff can exercise greater control over each stage and make customizations according to each patient’s unique needs.
During the design phase, doctors have the choice of designing the crown from scratch or using the highly accurate AI-generated proposals created by CrownAI™ software. This level of control keeps clinicians involved in determining details such as margins, occlusion, and shape of the restorations, resulting in better-fitting, more esthetic results.
Training is also provided to doctors and their staff to ensure that every clinic maximizes the potential of each piece of hardware and software in the glidewell.io system. Additionally, glidewell.io offers ongoing continuing education on both scanning and milling techniques. With access to the annual IOX symposium and Glidewell Clinical Education across multiple channels, dental practitioners can continuously improve their knowledge and skills, thus providing the best possible treatment for their patients. For DSOs who invest in ongoing training, continuing education, and quality assurance programs to support their affiliated dentists, glidewell.io is a great choice.
Operational Efficiency
As DSOs strive to find new ways to make their dental practices more efficient, glidewell.io has proven to be an ideal way to improve productivity while reducing overhead costs. For one, digital impressions are more accurate than traditional ones, and doctors can expect to have significantly fewer remakes needed. This applies to doctors who pair their fastscan.io™ Scanning Solution with the fastmill.io™ In-Office Mill as well as those who send their digital impressions to a lab.
Additionally, BruxZir® NOW is a fully sintered zirconia, which eliminates the need for an additional step of oven firing, thus saving time. In fact, creating a durable, lifelike restoration using glidewell.io requires only half the steps required compared to conventional chairside zirconia. Even a crown design can be completed in just a few clicks of the mouse—with MarginAI™ and CrownAI™ in the fastdesign.io™ Software and Design Station, the AI-enhanced software draws on a database of millions of crowns to generate high-quality design proposals. This not only saves doctors considerable time by eliminating the need to design crowns themselves, but also eliminates the time spent waiting for a lab to fulfill the order.
By exploring and embracing everything that this innovative technology has to offer, staff members will also feel less pressure to meet tight deadlines and enjoy a more positive work environment with less stress.
Growth and Performance
The glidewell.io In-Office Solution includes data-analytics and metrics that provide valuable insight into the performance of a practice. Tracking platforms can show the total number of cases milled in a given timeframe, the quantity of materials used in a mill, the time spent creating designs, type of restorations milled, and the tooth number that was treated. Data from the intraoral scanner can also be collected and analyzed at an office or corporate level to show the number of scans per location and the types of cases being treated. For DSOs who manage revenue, expenses, and financial metrics to ensure the viability of their operations, this data can be used for measurable targets and benchmarks to work toward. By tracking key information, dental practices can set goals, monitor their progress, and compare their performance against industry standards or competitors.
According to a survey conducted by Exevia GmbH in 2015, 85% of patients prefer single-visit dentistry and 50% are willing to pay more for the convenience. Furthermore, 67% of patients stated they would be willing to travel farther, and two out of three patients would consider changing dentists to receive same-day crowns. This shows an industry trend that undeniably favors digital-powered, same-day results. The opportunities that glidewell.io has to offer could mean the difference between leading the industry or falling behind.