hey there it's dr amanda with straight smile solutions
www.straightsmilesolutions.com and we're here today with another vlog blog it's an
update or repost about uniform teeth i got contacted by their team
and i was fortunate enough to have had a nice 30 minute conversation with
megan jewett she is the ceo of uniform teeth and i'm very excited to
kind of give you an update on what they're doing and how it works and
perhaps how you fit in as either a consumer
as a general dentist or as an orthodontist and how they partner with
all three people so um thanks so much megan for taking
the time to let me interview you today all right so just high level uniform
teeth likes to consider themselves not at all a diy or dtc company they
don't also consider themselves at all even necessarily a scan shop
they consider themselves kind of parallel or on par with the company like
one medical company so almost like concierge boutique dentistry is the way
i like to think of it but concierge boutique orthodontics
so nice thing about them is that they're using technology
but they're also using ai in order to get the best
possible outcomes for their patients but also
efficiently using their time so patients aren't coming into the orthodontist or
into one of their uniform teeth stores or shops or
whatever you want to call them clinics unless they really need to so
and i've told you before that it's very possible to do eyeliner cases
um in less than three four appointments and of course they're not setting
you know a limit patients are seen as they need to be seen but they're also
using a lot of cool A.I. technology to have
more efficient treatment plans and to use
even concepts like hybrid so hybrid to me could mean putting on
braces on first and then doing some clear aligners
hybrid could mean using a combination of aligners with
buttons tads um different springs
coils stuff like that there's all kind of things that we learn in orthodontic
residency and these are things that i teach
doctors how to do all the time with straight smash solutions
you can't always just use plastic only to get what you want because you're not
always going to get the best outcome or you know it might be compromised or
it might just take a longer time or a long time yeah so sometimes using a
combination of techniques and letting the doctor or the
orthodontist do what they know what to do
best and using a lot of techniques that we use in braces can give you a better
outcome in a shorter period of time or a more healthier outcome a healthier
outcome so anyways so that was one thing i didn't realize they were doing and i
thought that was really cool also so yeah it does see here that they
see usually in three to five visits which i think is pretty standard at this
point for the doctors i work with i train them
how to do this there's just no reason you need to be seeing a line of patients
in office every four to six weeks it just makes no
sense what are you doing you know and they also said they have a really
low revision refinement rate which i think is great
um they didn't quite have that rate calculated but they said it was low
um and i think that's huge because you should be able to knock this out of
the park as long as you have a good treatment plan a good doctor you know
what you're doing you're using good plastic good
manufacturing and you have a good check-in process
and you're tracking you know and the patient's compliant
everything should just turn out first try and that's something that they
totally get and i i respect that like i told her so the
other thing they're doing is patients come in for um the checkup
or the screening or the consult and they're taking cbct standard on
every single patient just to kind of look at the perio look at the bone level
um of course they're looking for more complicated things as well and they
pretty much take every patient that comes in they are
oral orthodontists that work with them so um and i guess they're very selective
on the orthodontist that they pick so they pretty much are doing every
single type of case that comes from phase one
um exposures canine exposures it's a regular orthodontic office is what it is
that also happens to have their own brand of
proprietary aligners that uses their own brand of proprietary software and their
own brand of proprietary check-in you know checking in tracking so
pretty cool so it's like a turnkey you know what you're going to get if you go
there so they're not going to say no to treating you
assuming as long as you you know are healthy um the only thing they're not
doing right now is jaw surgery orthognathic cases at the moment
but that's subject to change they say so um
yeah i mean that's pretty much how it works so it's just that's what it is
it is what it is and they try to have a very relaxing spa-like experience
no impression impressionless um you know using cbct's what else um
we pretty much went over almost everything auxiliaries yeah that's
pretty much it so um yeah i was very impressed so we
said we'd talk about how it works if you're an orthodontist how it works if
you want to partner with them if you're a general dentist how it works if you're
a consumer so let's take each one of those
so orthodontists can partner with them you can give them a call
they are hiring as they enter new areas um
so i guess you know better to part with them partner them than have them show up
across the street from you so um you know they do hire um for the most part
the our employees the orthodontist that work
for them so um but they said if they're not in your
area yet they might be soon so give them a call if you're interested in working
for them um number two um if you are a general
dentist i thought this was cool i didn't know this about them
they are partnering with general dentists the general dentists aren't
doing the aligners of course but they would love to have your referrals
and in turn because they don't do any general dentistry they will not poach
your patient so they will send the patient back to you
um you know for um the cosmetic work and the implants and
whatever else and on top of that if you are a referral refer to them and if the
patient comes in and needs a general dentist they will send you
uh the patient you know for restorative work or whatever else so you might get
referrals back so it works almost backwards than how it does in a
private you know ortho office because i mean i
would get referrals but did i ever like randomly refer now because everyone had
a general dentist but they get people coming in that
don't always have a general dentist so they'll be glad to refer back to you
for the um you know restorative and such um
so but yeah definitely you know you need to be in network and
and connect with them if you're interested in if you have a uniform
teeth nearby you should definitely connect with them
um lastly as a consumer in order to get started you can go
on their website to go ahead and get started schedule a screening appointment
i believe it's free um i haven't looked recently
i know i did schedule one about a year or two ago when i was in san francisco
because i wanted to check it out but i couldn't
it was like they were booked out like about a month so this didn't work out it
wasn't like you could get an appointment like
last minute but maybe that's changed but um
they did say that their offices or their clinics have between three to six ops
um one doctor and one orthodontist is on the staff at all times and always in the
office to do the screenings and then they're also
doing like buttons auxiliaries um braces other things like that but the
vast majority of their patients have some type of aligners mostly either
like a hybrid or they're getting aligners plus braces or
somewhere in there there's usually some type of aligners which is cool
so um in any case yeah that's it so thanks so much to
megan the ceo of uniform teeth for taking the time to meet with me today
all right take care