dr amanda with straight smile solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and pretty much every
day i'm bugging my clients to send me big cheesy smile photos and so many times you know you're
rushing through those photos using the invisalign photo uploader or just taking photos and your
your team may not understand why we need that big cheesy photo and these are all examples
of what i call big cheesy photos i want to see the the eyes kind of going up i want to see some
folding around the mouth um dimples you know if it's just a half-assed smile i can't tell where
the lip position is where the gum positions are upper and lower gums and especially on cases with
deep bites or open bites um i don't know where to move the teeth so remember if you've got a
deep bite case we've got a vertical issue whether the patient's growing or not we got to decide how
we're going to fix that deep bite are we going to do absolute intrusion of incisors max incisors are
we going to do absolute intrusion of mandibular and sizes are we going to do relative extrusion
of the molars and if you don't know what any of this stuff is guess what i have content you can
make on that really really easy to find it and you need to understand this before you do any ortho
and guess what all my educational videos are free it costs me money to make them but i give it to
you for free why because it's the right thing to do and there's a lot of bad orthodontic education
out there so i am correcting that by posting my stuff for free if you love what you hear hey you
can get help with your invisalign or any type of ortho cases will help implement it in your
practice will help support you we have as little as help with one case or help with all your cases
tell a friend tell your classmates we'll be glad to help you so in order to access all those videos
to watch those videos remember i told you those keywords absolute intrusion or relative extrusion
or you can just look up intrusion and extrusion to find those you need to go to my youtube channel to
get there you go to your youtube channel put in the search bar straight smile solutions
from there it's going to take you to my youtube channel which has a green banner from there you
can put in the keywords as a little magnifying glass towards the right of youtube and put in
absolute intrusion or relative extrusion or just intrusion or extrusion and those videos will come
up and you will fully understand what i'm talking about and why i need this big cheesy smiling
photos in addition there's another cool value add that's within invisalign if you're using
invisalign called invisalign in face and it's a relatively new product or feature or widget
and i love love love in face especially for these kind of cases as well for any cases that
are restorative cases or as well as for midline cases that's when i really really need i need the
in-face feature and it will not let you use the in-face feature unless you have that big cheesy
photo somehow their software knows when it's a real smile and when it's a half-assed smile so
please please please take a good photo so i don't have to send you back home to tell the patients
to retake the photo and remember even if you have to retake a big cheesy smile photo it's not a big
deal you don't have to have the patient come back in they can just use their phone and grab
a selfie at home and you have to tell them it has to be a big fake cheesy smile okay like it's
the funniest thing in the whole world don't worry we're not gonna post it we know it's not what you
want but guess what we're using it for a reason so just have them send a selfie have them emailed
to you this is not hipaa this is just a smiling picture okay get that and then you can repair it
with invisalign you can contact invisalign at records aligntech.com and say hey can you swap
out the photo with this new photo or you can put in the comment section with a modification hey i
need to swap out the photo can you please put this in photo needs photo status i'm going to upload
a new photo for a new smiling photo so i can use the in face feature boom very easy they'll do it
for you doesn't cost anything let's just get it done so we can get accurate treatment planning
remember invisalign technicians don't give a rat's beep if you're doing absolute intrusion relative
extrusion whatever they don't know they don't care they're not even educated on this maybe a few of
them are but most of them aren't so you're going to get a very erroneous treatment plan that's
going to look bad on your patient unless you do these things accurately so you need to not rely
on the technicians i cannot say this enough you are the doctor i don't care if this is your first
case or your millionth case you need to rely on the doctor and treatment plan accordingly
do not just take any clinch act that comes your way it's going to be a half ass clean check okay
learn to do clean checks correctly and you will get great outcomes all right thanks so much