A select group of DSD Planning Center customers are now using DSD's Treatment Planning Service (TPS) for Invisalign® providers, which is part of DSD's longstanding partnership with Align Technology.

It's a service that allows Invisalign providers to integrate DSD's tools into ClinCheck® to help with the designing and planning of smile designs using aligner treatment. And you could be using this service too!

Treatment Planning Service solves problems

“Mastering the ClinCheck® software has become a new sub-specialty within orthodontics; it requires a thorough understanding of the technology and knowledge of how the biomechanics are different,” says Christian Coachman, DSD CEO and Founder.

“Thanks to the TPS, any dentist is able to deliver exceptional Invisalign® cases,” Christian adds. “I believe Invisalign® has been especially forward thinking by addressing this gap between dentists and Invisalign® technicians through the provision of the TPS. Despite the fact that the platform’s artificial intelligence and technicians make good initial suggestions, the responsibility still lies with the dentist to make the final evaluation, approval and modifications.”

“Using a TPS makes a lot of sense for dentists who don’t have the time or additional skills to do their own extensive treatment planning. Using TPS is like having an orthodontist and Invisalign® technician on your team, producing top quality treatment plans while you get on with seeing your patients,” explains Dr Francis Coachman, DSD Planning Center Director. 

More time to grow your business

“By utilizing the DSD Planning Center for treatment planning, you can be confident that our specialists will develop high-quality digital treatment plans to achieve great outcomes that save you time so you can have more time growing your business,” Francis says.

“Anyone running a busy dental office will know that mastering a new system can take some time. That is why we are excited to offer this valuable time-saving service that will ensure high quality treatment plans” he explains. 

The DSD Planning Center TPS can accommodate customer requirements as follows:

• Consultant for quality assurance on ClinCheck® treatment plan
• Detailed clinical assessment and case summary

The DSD Planning Center offers dentists this flexibility to help them gain further understanding and experience in orthodontic treatment planning. “You can become proficient in ClinCheck® software by using TPS until you are comfortable and confident in the protocols yourself,” he elaborates.

The DSD Planning Center difference

“What we offer through our service is very similar to the smile design support that we provide to all our Digital Smile Design customers; comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment planning by a team of dedicated specialists,” Francis says. 

What are the advantages of using DSD Planning Center?

Our DSD Planning Center team includes extensively trained orthodontists, who create high-quality digital treatment plans to achieve great outcomes and give dentists more time to grow their Invisalign business.

• Its collective experience in treatment planning and smile design for a wide range of cases
• Its skills in using 3D treatment planning software
• Its qualified orthodontists on the planning team
• Its internal quality assessment protocols
• Its position to gain continuous insights from treatments following case acceptance
• Its interaction with dentists worldwide on a daily basis (Collective Intelligence)

“This is another opportunity for us to help our clients to deliver better treatment,” he adds.

“The DSD Planning Center is particularly well placed to offer orthodontic treatment planning services. And the more Invisalign® cases we work on, the more our expertise develops. At the same time we are also adding new members to our team, adding to the breadth of our experience and range of skills.”

Christian believes that innovation thrives when there is a sense of community. “Our approach has always been to connect with and learn from great opinion leaders in all areas of dentistry. We work with hundreds and thousands of dentists through our courses and planning services, which allows us to learn from everyone. We bring this know-how from the world into our DSD Planning Center and then share it through the diagnostics and planning services that we provide. We take on the role of a dentistry ‘curator’; we sniff out the trends, assimilate, filter and develop the skills to pass on to other dentists.”

“We have been collaborating with Invisalign® providers, experts and orthodontists for some time now to design and refine our services at the DSD Planning Center. Through this process, we have built up our know-how. As a result, we can officially deliver a top quality ClinCheck® experience to our customers through TPS.”

“This approach isn’t anything new for me; since my technician days, I have been doing the same with smile designs. I was learning from the best and applying this knowledge to every new case, multiplying and sharing the knowledge,” Christian explains.

How Invisalign® providers can use the service

“I want people to understand that this TPS we offer is completely independent from DSD and Invisalign® treatment. When submitting a new case through the Invisalign® platform and after receiving the first ClinCheck® treatment plan, dentists are given the option to select the DSD Planning Center for desired treatment planning services,” Francis explains. The steps in this process from start to finish are:

• Step 1: Submit Invisalign® case
• Step 2: Receive initial ClinCheck® plan
• Step 3: Select DSD Planning Center
• Step 4: DSD Planning Center provides detailed treatment plan
• Step 5: Dentist evaluates ClinCheck® plan and approves
• Step 6: Invisalign® case delivered to clinic

How DSD customers benefit

“We are constantly improving our DSD workflows and becoming a TPS will have a direct and positive impact on our DSD Invisalign® workflow,” Francis says. 

“The idea in the first stage was to quality control what they were receiving. We want to make sure the information inside ClinCheck software, our DSD design, the face, the overlapping of the files and the ortho movements suggested by the design is following what we suggest,” he continues.
“This was an opportunity to really understand what the customer needs are and where we can meet them in better ways, on the Invisalign and DSD fronts. We worked with a group of DSD dentists who did a test drive of the system and helped us ensure that it runs as smoothly as possible.” 

Helping dentists to grow their Invisalign® business

The goal of DSD in this endeavour is simple: we want dentists to grow their Invisalign® practice and deliver quality cases, regardless of whether they are a DSD member or not. “If you are an Invisalign® provider or if you're planning to become one, you can count on us to help you in that process,” Francis explains.

We offer clinicians of all levels the advice and support they need to achieve safe, predictable and reliable results in the treatment planning process.

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This article was created in partnership with Align Technology.