amanda with straight smile solutions straights mass solutions.com and i just wanted to pose this
subject what is a healthy invisalign or clear aligner refinement rate do you even know what
your refinement rate is you should know what your refinement rate is it's not that hard to find out
you can just audit say a year's worth of cases that were completed and then backtrack to see how
many had refinements and how many nailed it on the first go and what your percentage is or if you're
only doing invisalign my understanding is that there is an analytics button that you can opt into
that will give you the exact refinement rate on your um completed cases i know where it is however
i haven't figured out how to opt into it they no one from invisalign has ever returned my inquiries
on this and my tm doesn't know either but um you should know and what do i think is healthy well
i think a refinement rate should be less than 30 um if yours is more than 30 you're doing something
wrong basically so we can go more over this on how to avoid it what the issue is i mean obviously if
you're using a main company like invisalign or clearcorrect maybe reveal i'm not going to put
suresmile in that bucket because i've seen all kind of manufacturing issues with their stuff
so i'm pretty much going to put just say invisalign and clear correct um even global
i'm using global white label laners in our practice and they're great at twenty dollars
a pot they they i have no problems with their with their manufacturing um so you got that the
manufacturing that shouldn't be an issue if you're using a main one so take that off the table as
what's going on if you're having refinements and refinements could also be mid-course corrections
warranty fit all that stuff kind of goes into all the same bucket you know occasionally there's one
offs but it should be a very random thing second thing is your treatment plan most commonly it's
one of two things it's either the treatment plan or it's a lack of accountability loop compliance
accountability loop compliance program you gotta have all these things if you don't have all these
things lined up it's not gonna work out you're gonna have a high refinement rate there are plenty
of orthodontists that have less than 10 refinement rates i mean that's how good they are at a doing
really good treatment plans accurate predictable treatment plans be picking the right patients of
course and c creating an accountability loop let's talk about that what is an accountability loop an
accountability loop is exactly what it sounds like i mean hey i've got kids at home and we we
do accountability loops all the time you know uh did you do your homework yes no i mean there's a
you gotta show it to me you know how do we how do you demonstrate that things were actually done
accountability loop i don't care if it's a sticker chart if it's i check we do inspection whatever
same thing with aligner patients i don't care if they're 10 7 70 50 everybody needs
an accountability loop that just means how do i know that they're actually doing what they saying
they're doing and that always cracks me up when you guys are like my patient says they're wearing
them i call bs on that because i look at the pictures and i'm like well do you have pictures
every single aligner of them checking in i don't care if you're using dental monitor
i can't even say the word dental monitoring system what was now called a line flow which is now
called in hand orthodontics that's their new company name um i don't care if you create your
own in-house program there's all kinds of other new they're always spotting up new companies that
are out there that basically use apps or phones or scan boxes or whatever it is to snap pictures
at before every aligner change to send it to the doctor or the team or send it to ai i don't really
care who's doing it to say if you can change the aligner or not it's that simple it can be done
manually it can be done with ai if you don't want to deal with it if you want to pay for someone to
do it really really really easy go no go change no change yes you're ready to change no you're not
that's all you do is you create an accountability loop it's actually quite easy to do to create
an in-house one or you can purchase one of these programs i know that the in-hand orthodontics the
one i said used to be called the line flow i think it's looked on their website and i think it's 140
a month for 30 patients i mean that's not bad if you do the math on that that's just a few
dollars per patient per month to not have refinements why not so anyways just wanted
to pose this topic to you discuss if you have questions we're glad to help you out thank you