hey it's dr amanda with straightsmilesolutions www.straightsmouthsolutions.com
and today i want to talk about our dentist moderated braces and orthodontic
support group and wow that's a long title but for any
of you who are patients who are looking for a support group
either before your ortho journey during or
after your ortho journey this is the place to be so it's
sponsored by my company straight smile solutions but i
have hand-picked some really amazing orthodontist and
dentist to be moderators on this um some really good advice going on solid advice
um we heavily screen the the attendees or the members of our
group um very very carefully so um no spammers no
scammers and um dentists are only by invite only
so if dentists want to join or join the
group you know you have to be real patient
but if dennis won't join the group they have to talk to us first to make sure
that they're there to behave responsibly and
give kind of like-minded advice so anyways yeah please join our
group but mostly today i really wanted to
open up a topic of conversation is like how do you pick
the right orthodontist or how do you pick the right dentist but we're
focusing more on ortho like you know you're a consumer you live
in nebraska how do you find the right orthodontist and sometimes people just
go with whomever is the closest or has more convenient
hours or is the cheapest but those are three pretty poor reasons
to choose so i would really ask here's some
questions that i would ask if since i'm pretty educated you know
obviously i'm orthodontist i'm educated in the topic if
i had to go find an orthodontist for my kids
there's certain things i would be asking okay so
um you know age has nothing to do with it sex has nothing to do with
it mostly i would a question i might ask is do you believe in phase one treatment
you know what is your opinion on that and
everyone will say yeah i do it but my question would be like what percentage
are your patients are phase one phase two
patients as opposed to comprehensive patients so that's a really good
question there um obviously somebody that
is willing to do phase one treatment is probably a little more interested in
like airway and total body health
and also i'm interested in probably non-extraction non-surgical
so somebody that's saying they mostly do comprehensive is probably going to be
more focused on fixed appliances surgical do a lot more
extractions things like that so that's a good question
another good question would be to ask the ratio of plastic to metal
and i know you're probably wondering what i mean by that but plastic meaning
aligners doesn't just have to be invisalign
to metal being metal braces or fixed removables you can say that too
i would want to see someone who's 50 50. you know
anyone that's saying they're almost all metal is telling you they're pretty old
school so they're old school and you know
that's the way they do things and it works for them
but many younger dentists that are coming out are much more focused on
plastic and removables but i i don't want to i mean there's older dentists
that are great at it too so you know good question and if you're at
all interested in removables then that's a good question if you are like
totally knowing you want braces braces then you know no need to ask that
question i don't think so those are two major questions that i
think you should ask um maybe have some other ones come up
soon but definitely those are the questions and
then um what else what else ask if they have
virtual consults and virtual check-ins that's another question like how often
do i need to come back to the office you want to find people who are using
technology and ai to try to streamline the experience so you don't have to
spend every month in the office so um that that will tell
you that the doctor is pretty um tech savvy and sophisticated so all kind
of things to think about and anyways please just join our facebook
group we hope to talk to you soon thanks