The 3-Step Process in Adopting Digital Dentistry

The 3-Step Process in Adopting Digital DentistryEpisode #620 with Dr. Daren BeckerWhether you know it or not, you're using digital technology somewhere in your dentistry. It’s time to embrace it! To reveal how adopting digital dentistry will transform your practice, Kirk Behrendt brings back Dr. Daren Becker from the Pankey Institute to share three important steps to successfully modernize your workflow. If for no other reason, go digital for your patients! To learn about the advantages that digital can offer, listen to Episode 620 of The Best Practices Show!Episode Resources:Send Dr. Becker an emailJoin Dr. Becker on FacebookFollow Dr. Becker on InstagramLearn more on Dr. Becker’s websiteSubscribe to the Best Practices Show PodcastJoin ACT’s To The Top Study ClubJoin ACT’s Master ClassSee our Live Events Schedule hereGet the Best Practices Magazine for Free!Write a Review on iTunes<br/>Links Mentioned in This Episode:Register for Dr. Becker and Dr. Cranham’s Digital Workflow course (June 13-15, 2024)Main Takeaways:Master the tried-and-true occlusal, restorative, and esthetic principles.Figure out where digital technology fits into your practice.Find a mentor or people that will support you.Start by getting an intraoral scanner.Go digital for your patients.Quotes:“Pete Dawson said in 2005, ‘Digital dentistry in the absence of sound, occlusal, esthetic, and restorative principles will only allow a dentist to screw up mouths even faster.’ To me, that's everything because everybody is jumping on the digital thing. He's right. The same way you could screw up a mouth if you didn't pay attention to sound occlusal principles, or good biologic principles with your margin design, and good restorative principles with your prep design, and good esthetic principles — if you didn't do that in the analog world, you're going to screw things up.” (9:36—10:19)“For most people, the start [to adopting digital] is an intraoral scanner. We've had conversations about this on the podcast before. There are lots of scanners out there. I'm not here to tell you which is the right one. I happen to use iTero. I love my iTero. I have two of them, actually, and we use them for everything. We do wellness scans in hygiene. Once a year, we scan every patient, kind of the opposite of having radiographs made. It's a great way to monitor changes. It's incredible because you put the screen up in front of a patient — I think it's called TimeLapse. It'll flash between the two years ago scan and the new scan. They can see the change. They can see the shifting of the teeth, or the w