smile Solutions straight smile solutions.com and today we're going to talk about Bean readers and
you guys asked me to report back on beam readers I've actually had quite a few of you a lot of you
have cbcts so let's talk a little bit about that how that works specifically with ortho and how it
works with those harder cases or even cases with pathology so remember if you're taking a cbct for
whatever reason you are responsible as far as I know you can check with your liability insurance
and you can check with your own dental practice act in your own state or country but as far as I
know if you are taking a cbct you're responsible to have either you need to read it even if you're
taking only looking at one area say for an implant for number 14 if you take a full cbct of the whole
area everything every area that you image you are responsible for interpreting so if you don't
know how to interpret it you need to upload that image and have somebody interpret it for you okay
because if there's some pathology at another site and you don't report on that or you don't notice
it you are liable so that is my understanding if you're not sure like I said check that out so
for Ortho you've seen some of my other reports you know whether it's like a supernumerary tooth
or an impacted canine or some random strange pathology that shows up for Ortho you know same
thing goes you do not want to start moving teeth unless you're sure that you're in the
clear to move those teeth okay and especially if you're doing braces because you didn't have
you have no control in braces as to how things move with Invisalign now that you can upload the
cbct you have a little more control although I find that there it's not great you know for
things like pathology that's not going to show up supernumerate teeth that doesn't show up very well
it's okay for like impacted third molars and stuff like that but everything else it's not great so
um and remember it's it's relying on AI and stuff it's a new function I still would rather that you
get that report officially read I want the all clear from the dental license omr or maxillofacial
radiologist to tell you yes it is okay for you to treat even though there's a super numerator yes
it's okay for you to treat even though there's an odontoma in that area or yes it's okay for you to
treat even though there's or yeah there's some condensing osciitis around that area but it's
okay you can go ahead and move the teeth you want to have that in writing from The omr Who and let
me clarify not all of these reading services are U.S license it is critical that you again check
with your liability insurance you must have a U.S license if you're in the U.S if you're in Canada
you must have a Canadian license one if you're in Australia and you'd have an Australian licensed
one because if and when something goes wrong something heads South and you just said oh I got
this report from this guy who's in Pakistan you know that's not going to count you are not liable
now it's different if some guy who's in your state or your country of licensure says signs off say
is fine for you to go ahead and treat with that supernumerator that pathology or that odontoma or
that condensing osteitis you're okay you know that person is more specialized than you than that area
they did an official report they said it was okay something happens it's on them it's not on you
so and I see this stuff all the time you wouldn't believe how many people just start treating saying
oh I think it's okay you know so anyways so that's the underlying idea and I know the price point
is you know in the hundred ish range and they kind of asked me I talked to the team at beam
readers today and I agreed that I wasn't going to give exact prices just because when I make
these they may raise their prices you know and they said there's you know special circumstances
depending on the situation that might be a little bit less also depending on your volume could be
less could be more so it's an ish thing but um you know I want this video to be able to live
on for a few years so just give you some idea of some of the stuff they do so basically they have
they do have volume discounts but they have two major buckets of reading so one of them
is what they call an image technician or an image portfolio so this isn't an omr or a Mac or not a
dentist reading it it's just an image technician giving you what you need so you can do this with
um if you upload you know a cbct that where the field is big enough and let's say you need a
ceph slice they can take a self slice out of it and from the stuff slice they can turn it into a
ceph and that price point is more than 50 less than 100 let's put it that way and it takes a
few days if you need it faster within a day if there's a rush chart it's still less than 100
unless you have volume but there's definitely more than your snap X is definitely more than
I've been sending a lot of them to like olindor stuff like that it's definitely more okay so
um but it is it is what it is so you don't have to purchase a bundle or anything like that and if
you do volume the price goes down so that is the image portfolio Okay so again and they said you
know it is somewhat negotiable depending on volume so that's the image portfolio image technician to
you can either upload a you know a whole cbct and get a Seth slice or you can upload if you
just have a 2d stuff you can just upload that um and have them get you know whatever type of
stuff analysis you want takes a few days price point more than 50 less than 100 okay so the
other thing is the what I was talking about where the oral Mr the license omr so they're going to a
couple years of residency after dental school they have 60 omrs on staff today um when I publish this
um and the price point to have that um the actual report done on pathology or you know the question
and can I move this tooth in this area or I see some type of strange thing in the bone what is
it you know whether it's Ortho related or not is going to be 100-ish 100 plus would be in there
um they said that there's five states where you have to have someone specific in that state but
the other 45 States um is is it doesn't matter so it depends on they they keep an eye on the
um on the dental practice act and how it works but anyways regardless what's dating you're covered
is what they're getting at and same thing with Canada so they cover Canada and then they cover
um the United States all 50 states so in some ways it almost works like direct to Consumer
aligners I mean just that's what I'm familiar with where there's one you know so many doctors in each
state and everything like that no I'm not saying this is directing consumer because it's not but
um it's actually but in terms of like there is someone licensed in your state at least one person
that will do your reading and it takes a few days for them to go ahead and write up that report
um you know giving you the okay um to go ahead and do whatever or to read for pathology and
they do lots of other things that are not related to Orthodontics so you can ask them what they do
but this is the stuff that I'm interested in so yeah I strongly recommend that you check them out
um I get no compensation there's no affiliate link anything like that you know I just said hey you
know it looks like a cool service I've seen some of the reports I have a lot of doctors that are
already using it um and I was like this is really well done you know like um before I used to always
send them a patient because we don't have a cbct way back when so we would send our patients to
um you know just the omfs and then they would read it and they're pretty good at it you know
but that always took a lot of time so if you have the technology this is you can knock this out in
a few days and get your answer ASAP can I go ahead and start the case you know is it okay
for me to distalize um you know is do you know is this is this pathology something that's concerning
that needs a biopsy et cetera Etc so yeah check them out beam Raiders all right thanks so much