An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics Onto Your Dental Practice

Book excerpt: Of the over 200,000 primary care dentists in the U.S., most have little to no formal educational training in orthodontics. Those who do seek training often have to resort to expensive and time-consuming weekend services. You learn on the job through trial and error, but those errors can be expensive and unfortunate for both patients and doctors. An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice fills that gap by helping you reduce your cost and your trial and error period by providing valuable solutions for doctors and their teams.Author Amanda Wilson, MDS, DDS has been in the field of dentistry for nearly two decades. She is an orthodontist, dental consultant, and dental advisor by profession; she previously served as dental director for SmileDirectClub and is the founder and CEO of StraightSmile Solutions. Wilson has seen almost everything, wants to give back to the field, and has made it her mission to help doctors build out their practices, educating them on how to create healthy and happy smiles for their patients. That's where the idea for An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice was born. Within the pages of this book you'll learn about how to start up, what machines to buy, training a competent dental assistant and treatment coordinator, how to maximize time and revenue, various kinds of invisible aligners, IDB and functional appliances, diagnosing and treatment planning, how to upsell necessary services to your patients, how to market your new orthodontics menu of services in a variety of ways, and so much more. If you're looking to make your practice more lucrative and need practical tools, tips, and tricks of the trade then you need to pick up a copy of An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice.