hey it's Dr Amanda with straight smile Solutions straight smile solutions.com and I wanted to recap
a little bit more about the in-face smile feature if you aren't familiar with this is one of my
favorite favorite buttons that is in Invisalign so you aren't familiar with this feature you need to
start using it it looks like this I made it pink so you can recognize that it's at the top of your
grid I call it in face smile features is what I do but it is so cool it uses AI in order to show
you the doctor and also the patient with their smile is going to look like afterwards now that
sounds like a gimmick and I know you're saying oh it's kind of like the iOS simulator on the itero
but it's more than that so I love to use it on harder case especially where the mid lines
might be off or moving the mid lines or there's a lot of spaces or there's a lot of crowding or
there's a gummy smile or really anything where there's a lot of movement on the front teeth
um where we might have to make decisions you know should we move it this way should we move it that
way should we move it up should we move it down and it helps me with the treatment planning to
make sure that I do it right now obviously this feature didn't exist you know even just a few
years ago and we did plenty of Ortho but a lot of times we'd have to reboot right we'd kind of get
started and then we'd check and then we do another refinement and then maybe we change things and
we do another refinement with this I I mean I've seen enough cases now start to finish that I feel
really confident When I See This looking good like I feel really confident it makes me more confident
on my treatment plan and it also helps you explain it better to the patient because they can see you
know why do you like this version you know version five better than version six especially when they
have different options because you can use this feature and show them now there's a few caveats
and this if you are from Align Technology and if I'm explaining something wrong or as always you
guys have been really cool lately you're more than welcome you have my email to contact me
and say hey can you re-record this you said something wrong not a problem this is based on
my questions and my understanding and the webinars I've gone to and the classes I've gone to is that
two things have to be done in order to be able to use this feature and I'd say only probably 30 to
40 percent of the clients I work with have this feature enabled because they're not all doing it
correctly or they don't have the right technology number one you have to be using the Invisalign
practice app I might be calling it the wrong thing but the new app used to be called the Invisalign
photo uploader app and now it's called The uslank Practice app that is on your phone or on your iPad
to take the photos you can't be using a regular DSL or camera can't use it so this is going to get
you to get a little bit more modern and get rid of that DSLR camera and I mean I know you guys like
them and they're fancy and they're nice but sorry even photographers Now can do everything with an
iPhone now remember you shouldn't be using the doctor's iPhone because that's not HIPAA compliant
or a staff's iPhone that's not HIPAA compliant you need to have a separate you know iPhone
without all kinds of apps and stuff like that and internet and search search and email and texting
that is only on the office Wi-Fi and if you're not sure about HIPAA and iPhones you should contact
someone who's specialized in HIPAA because that's not me okay but this is based on my understanding
um separate or an iPad you know it's even better because you're not gonna make phone calls from an
iPad um and just take your photos and it's going to go ahead and sync directly from that app into
the portal so you don't have to email them or text them or anything like that or transfer
them or anything like that and then you have to have that okay and then the other thing that you
need to do with your photos is that you also sorry your photos the other thing you need to
do is you need to have a pretty modern version of the itera so it can't be an old I Tara like
a one or a two I think it has to be the five I think but I'm not entirely sure which five so
um if you're not sure about that call and design call online technology call itero and ask them
which ones you can use for the smile or in face smile feature so once you're doing both of those
things you will be able to use that feature and it's going to help you with way more accurate
treatment planning it makes you a lot more confident it helps you sell the case helps
you explain the case it helps you make the right decision um and you're just going to get better
and faster outcomes I think it's definitely worth it so check it out all right thanks