dr amanda with straight smile solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and today we're
going to do another clearcorrect video so anytime there's something new are different
with various aligner companies i like to do an updated video these graphics obviously
this infographic is mine but these graphics i clipped from a newsletter that i got today
in an email from directly from clearcorrect i was actually so impressed with their video
and what they're doing that i decided to make a very positive video for once about their product
so i say for once because if you look at the history of my content that i've been making for
goodness going on six years now and posting on youtube and blogs started out with a lot
of blogs and then it went more to youtube videos um i'm super super i guess you call it bearish
about clearcorrect initially in the earlier videos and i'm starting to become more bullish
about my goodness part about clearcorrect and i'm liking it more why well i mean it was never a
bad product it was just a clunky product and their dashboard was just terrible just so bad that once
i mean invisaligns kept getting better and better and better other people came out with ones and it
was just like for this price i just can't deal with your dashboard i can't deal with that i
can't deal with how slow your turnaround time is it's just not worth it to me and a lot of other
doctors not just to me but they really i have to initially when strauman bought clearcorrect
i was like oh okay this is good you know it's a high quality product or a high quality company
um they're gonna make it better but it took them a really long time to make any changes it seems
like they were just supervising for a while i know from talking to a lot of the initial
team i was friends with a lot of the initial team at clear correct i got to know them really well
about six seven eight years ago doing some collaborative projects together way back when
and they were so awesome so nice i've taken a tour of their facilities and then strawman went
and either they ran off all the good team members or a lot of them left just because
they it was really toxic from what i've heard um the culture at the nuclear correct i don't know
whether they've finally gotten things more balanced or if it's still a culture issue
but regardless the product is better so this is clear prior like 1.0 um they didn't start doing
clear pilot until stroma took over and this is clear pilot 3.0 basically the dashboard is
really user friendly and it's pretty similar to using invisaligns dashboard right now they're
klitsch 6.0 i think is the most recent invisalign that's out there it's very similar i mean it's
not the same thing obviously you have to learn where things are but there's a lot of features
like we've got better gums we can see the ipr we can see the engagers which are the
attachments there's different types of shapes now you've got better pontics i like the tmt or
the movement chart we call that invisalign tmt uh treatment overview is just like a summary um
you can see this from variety of different views the grid is helpful they have that with invisalign
that way you can you know kind of measure super imposition is really helpful you can see where
it moves the occlusion is probably my favorite feature that they have um it's really really
helpful i mean they needed this like last year two years ago five years ago ten years ago um
the comments is helpful photos x-rays documents dr edits is nice so you can see your history of
your edits but mostly the main two things that i really like that they're doing now
is that there's a variety different shape of the engagers the occlusion the grid and the tmt or
movement chart is the most helpful because i like to see if there's an extrusion i mean it looks
like there's an extrusion but really is there an extrusion how much is the extrusion and if
you want to know more about using a tmt you can go into or anything else about clearcorrect but
you can see i've made so many content videos about all these features for invisalign and how
to use them and it's basically the same thing so you just have to call it a different thing like
this is called tmt right um occlusion you can see that you can look it up it's called a clues
on invisaligns thing so you can go into my youtube channel which and to access that there's over 3000
free educational videos in there about all different types of orthodontics from braces
to aligners to phase one to airway to omt if you want to look up a specific keyword let's say if
like tmt or clues all you're going to do is go to my youtube channel to find that go to your
youtube channel go up in the search bar put in straight smile solutions from there you'll get
to my youtube channel which has a green banner from there you'll see a tiny little magnifying
glass towards the right towards the top but not in the top right hand corner put in that keyword
and it should come up and you can watch all the content or on the home page of my
youtube channel you're gonna have a variety of different playlists there's one for alternative
aligner companies there's one for invisalign at this point clear collect is getting so much
better that you can pretty much watch the entire invisalign playlist which has over 150 different
pieces of content this literally will take you like a month to watch everything that i've
created it'll take a long time and some people legitimately do it which i'm really impressed um
but things change right so yeah decent product again just a quick refresher why do i like clear
correct now more than i ever did well first of all they take any scanner which is huge for me
it i that's my number one beef with invisalign and every other doctor who doesn't have an itero
it's like why why not i know you've got a lawsuit with them with these different scanning companies
because you own your own scanning company but it's not fair to the doctors that you use it's bs you
should you should be agnostic like clearcorrect if you own your own scanner you know like like um
invisalign does align technology hey then charge an extra 10 bucks to use a different scanner i
mean i don't think most doctors would be opposed to that it's better than what they're doing right
now because honestly what's going to happen online technology if you're listening to this video
is that clearcorrect is getting so much better i mean there's still some more things they need to
do before they win my love back again well they never really had my love but um before they i
would actually consider using it over invisalign we're not there yet um and i'll go over that in
a few minutes but the i mean if clearcorrect keeps making these improvements the invisalign
is about to take a major hit and and i'm going to be the first one on the bandwagon once they
finish the stuff that i asked for now what's the stuff that i've asked for that they've done um
certainly clearing up the turnaround times it's much much better i don't use it very often i don't
have many doctors that are using it i probably have more doctors using white label for sure
so it goes for me for terms of what the doctors i work with use number one of course is invisalign
way high up then white label which is in-house or you can outsource everything if you want to know
about that i'm glad to explain it to you crazy cheap a fraction of the price of clearcorrect
and the exact same quality and you can use any scanner it's just not packaged all pretty and
you don't get the cool dashboard so and now the clearcorrect dashboard is getting better okay
um then beyond that would be sure smile then would be probably reveal then would be clear correct
so i would put correct clear correct as number five in terms of the ranking what my doctors do
and at one point they were number two but they've now that other ones have come up and
the white label products are so cheap and so much better why i mean the only reason
i'd use this over white label because it's so much more expensive would be for the dashboard
which is like i said getting a lot better it is really easy to keep things organized
um so what things would i like what what would cleartech and i you know the the team at strawman
is not friendly to me so i have no loyalty to them i had loyalty to the initial team but
you know whatever so these are the things i've asked for and these are the things that they've
done so number one thing i asked for was better turnaround times they've definitely improved that
um dashboard they've improved it's a lot lot better um they have put in the clues feature that
was a nes total necessity i refused to use their product until they had that the clues feature in
there that's huge um better pontics they've done that the movement chart they've done that okay
so and the comments and stuff like that what else do they need to do oh also they are now allowing
anterior and post allowing anterior and posterior bite turbos you have to ask them a funky way
but that's huge i would like it if they made it easier to ask for it i feel like right now
when you ask for it you have to ask 100 times and half the technicians don't know what it is
and it ends up wasting several weeks you have to call customer service you have to phrase it
a certain way they should know what this is and it should be easy to use like it is with invisalign
so that that's one beef i still have with them maybe it'll get better um what else what else
let's see only other thing that they really just have to do i would say besides clearing
up that bite turbo thing because bite turbos are like standard on ninety percent of my cases
um and theirs are still a little too small because they're basically engagers but we're
using them on the palette and we're just not filling them only other thing that i
would probably do is i would want them to be able to actually do the elastic punch outs
and i know with their trim line it is not going to be possible to do slots and that's fine because i
hate slots anyways i actually like button cutouts there's no reason you cannot do button cutouts
with the clear correct aligners and yes i've punched them in but it wasn't the movement
wasn't built into the treatment plan so yeah you can manually punch them in but it's not
going to work properly because the movements aren't built into the movement simulator right
so that would be nice if they would actually punch those in for you and build the movements of the
elastics into the treatment simulator that would be awesome i would also really like for them to
have a better phase one product i love love love love love clear correct for phase one yes i know
and i did it on my own daughter so i have no problem saying that um i was pro i don't know
if i was their first case because i kind of was kind of beta testing with them it's certainly
they never published it i gave them the records at the end but um it turned out really really
well and the reason why i actually think that clear correct is superior to invisalign for
phase one product um and by phase one just a friendly reminder we're just talking about
closing up the spaces from seven to ten from 22 to 26 and or opening the spaces if you know
correcting crowding if you've already done an expander first you'd have to do the expander
first most likely um to make the space yes you could tip the teeth but that wouldn't be ideal
um to make space so i use expanders all the time and then go on to do phase one aligners afterwards
clearcorrect is so much more superior so much superior to invisalign because it has a higher
trim line so you can do less attachments which works way better on primary teeth but they don't
have their primary their phase one product built into their system you know as a i don't know
whether it's because invisalign might have some type of proprietary stuff on phase one aligners
i don't know i mean because they clearly don't i do them all the time i don't know why having
things on kids would be considered proprietary it's just moving teeth but perhaps it's the
branding or perhaps they just don't want to deal with invisalign coming after them so yeah plenty
of people have done phase one aligners with clear correct i do them with white label all the time
um but they don't directly offer it nor do they have a price point that goes with it so what you
can do is you can do the unlimited plan which is five years you can which is actually a really good
deal you can start out doing the phase one they won't say no and then you can take a pause for a
year or two while the rest of the teeth come in not have an eyeliner just put a bonded retainer
or create your own thorough retainer or order a throw retainer from a local orthodontic lab
it would be nice if they made thoreau retainers too but that's a whole nother thing
and then you could go on to finish the case obviously timing would be ideal because you
only get that five year window but it would be incredibly affordable um and the great thing about
clearcorrect relative to invisalign is that they have because of their trim line because of the
strength of their material yes it's a little less comfortable
but you can use way fewer attachments way way way fewer attachments so it's a lot more aesthetic
so and it's way better for primary teeth it would be my choice hands down over the
invisalign primary teeth it's such a hassle to bond attachments to primary teeth nor would i
ever want to deal with bonding attachments on a seven eight or nine year old what a hassle right
i did my daughter's case with the phase one aligners without any attachments and it tracked
just fine you know how easy that is you know how much chair time that saves you being able to
just deliver that phase one aligners without attachments hours taking them on taking them
off in a kiddo is tricky right so anyways yes this was a favorable review of clearcorrect pilot 3.0 i
think they're well on their way and you know what i might just buy some stock and trust strawmen
because i think this really was this was something you know and and if i were online technology i'd
be a little afraid and i hope that they're looking over their shoulder because they get
really cocky you know a linetec does and yeah their stock's pretty low right now so definitely
this is on its way and it's about to take over real fast unless a line tech either lowers their
prices or changes the way they pay it or or is willing to take different scanners those are the
three things they have to do otherwise they're sunk as far as i'm concerned all right thanks