it's dr amanda with street smile solutions street smile solutions.com and a lot of you
are asking why we're not having um lecture courses on elainers and i'm gonna explain
the why to you first of all why because i have over 3000 pieces of content on my youtube if
you want to know about aligners put in the type of aligners in the search the little you don't
know how to do youtube there's a little looking glass it's on each channel so you have to go
into my channel which is straight smile solutions the looking glass is in the middle to the right
kind of middle right top and it's super tiny little looking glass if you don't know where it is
you can email me info street smile solutions.com or send me a website message at my website and i
will send you a screen grab of where it is it's very small and you can put in any topic you want
if i have 3 000 videos it's gonna come up you can put in rpe invisalign clin
check and probably 20 videos will come up at least on each topic if not more
and just watch them and there's my lecture it's so easy it's free for you it's free from well
it's not free for me because i spent a lot of money on making these editing them and um time
and infographics and stuff and you know graphic design but in any case who wants to actually go
to a lecture it doesn't make sense so in any case but also you got to keep in mind from my point
i have individual consulting client the doctors are very very busy they like me to be available
and the more i travel and i'm gone the less i can be available for them when they need me so i try
to keep myself as flexible and as available as possible um also these type of lecture courses
are always sponsored by an aligner company and i've gotten myself in trouble before where i've
you know collabed or i've been a kol for a certain company just because i mean i it's
really fun and i love working with a team and i love growing a brand i love it i love it so much
but the problem is is they always make you sign your life away you have to sign your
life away you you sign these things called ndas or not non-disclosure agreements i get that but
non-disparagement agreements where and then it turns into these companies have a lot more money
than i do i'm a small business right i'm a doctor i'm married to a doctor yes i have kids i have a
family i'm not a millionaire you know i'm just a regular doctor just like you um i don't live
large i don't overcharge my doctors i think i keep my fees really reasonable for the value that they
get and the time i spend on them because i want my services to be available to the average doctor
and not be something that you need a ton of money in order to assess i also you know i'm
open to working with new grads and things like that so i try to make reasonable fees anyways
um i'm digressing but what i'm trying to say is that if i take one of these kol positions sure
great i'm getting paid more that sounds really really nice i would really love to have a regular
salary but i've done that before and then whenever i disagree with something that they say like
you know i'm a doctor i have 20 years experience sometimes these companies want you to say stuff
then i know isn't right and if i don't say it or if i later post a youtube video and they get
upset then they come after me with their legal team and this has now happened three times to me
three times and i'm not gonna name who the companies are but you can tell i'm very upset you
know they're very nice oh yeah yeah yeah and then later they try to come after you so i no longer do
kol you know so i'm happy to do a lecture with if if the company is really nice and wants to collab
but i don't sign any documents saying what i can say what i cannot say what i say is my opinion
and i'm not gonna sign my life away to collab with these companies so anyways that's why i don't do
lectures so basically they try to control what you say what you do what you can say later what you
can post i mean no i'm not even gonna go into that so i have over three thousand videos everything's
free just have it just use it just watch it enjoy it and you know what if there's something that i'm
not teaching let me know remember the boundaries of what i teach and what i do in my consulting is
regular simple ortho i don't teach surgery i don't teach exposures i mean i have a little bit on
exposures but you think you shouldn't you should know about it but it's not something i actively
work with doctors on i don't do tads i don't do jaw surgery cases yes i've done all these
things but it's not something i teach because i want my doctors to do simple predictable ortho
hard cases need to go to the orthodontist i believe in that too many ways you can screw up
and you really shouldn't be taking those cases to begin with and you know what if you're doing early
treatment in phase one treatment you shouldn't even have those cases anyways in your practice
if you're doing things correctly so because you do things correctly these things usually won't be
needed so hopefully that was helpful but thank you i'm glad you guys i'm glad you guys want
to hear me speak so you know if there's ever an opportunity and if someone's listening to this and
you know um and you want to have me come speak and you want me to be a guest and i don't have
any restrictions and i can freely speak i'm up for it all right thanks so much but i will
be at ada this fall 2021 smilecon i'll have a booth come talk to me all right thanks so much