amanda with straight smile solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and i wanted
to revisit the topic of a liner pontics i have a ton of videos on a liner pontics if you want
to watch them how to do them what the options are this is just one of the options i have other ones
i have paint on ones things like that you can go into my youtube channel and watch the videos
to access those go to your youtube channel put in the search bar at the top straight smile solutions
from there you'll get my green banner that's my youtube channel from there there'll be a tiny
magnifying glass towards the top towards the right but not in the corner top right
and put in the keyword aligner pontic or just pontic and all the videos i have on
how to do a liner pontics will come up of course they are always free cost me
money to make them but i don't charge you guys to watch them yet so in any case um
this is probably my favorite one just because it takes zero chair time away from me or my team
i can basically outsource this to patients as needed um one box is about
20 25 bucks i mean it's it's not cheap um i think my husband just bought a pack of six so i accepted
this from him um and he said it was over a hundred and twenty dollars for the pack of six and this is
just one pack it comes with sixteen so that's six times sixteen so you can do the math so comes out
to about a dollar or two per tiny little bitty piece of putty um that's per a liner because
one of these is per aligner a little bit expensive what he does and i hate to throw people under the
bus but he said i could talk about this is he says that he has his patience he gives them one pack of
four at delivery you know per visit and if they ask for other ones he'll give it but he also it
comes with this little tool which is basically like a glorified toothpick with a flatter end
and a pokey end you could just use a toothpick a q-tip um or a toothpick and he has them dig it out
and put it back in it means their own mouth so um he says it's really easy to dig out he says
after about eight to ten times of digging it out um it doesn't kind of falls apart that's
what he said so he says one of these squares of four will last pretty much a whole case of up to
30 to 40 outliners if it's a longer case you give him two that's what he said some other people are
giving the whole box to the patient a lot of times patients don't care about the pontics and
it really depends on what tooth it is too right i mean if it's if it's a molar they can just fill
the buccal side they don't have to fill the whole tooth it's not necessary although i find and my
daughter has a pontic on her aligners her invisalign it's number 11. she doesn't even
bother filling it she says nobody notices she goes yeah it fills up with spit nobody notices
why bother so not everyone cares you know but some people do and obviously if it's a lower incisor
and you're closing the space it's lower and sizes tiny right so you could probably do three of them
for one of these little things you know and this this might take up the whole case and you may not
have to dig it out and as the space gets smaller it's really not necessary to keep putting it in so
you know just think about it but yeah it's not cheap i have other doctors who give one of these
packs and then they direct the patients to go to the website to buy more so you know to me it's
like okay if i drop five to six grand on something and the doctor's nickel and diming me over
five bucks ten bucks i don't know that's a little tacky to me but you know you guys do
what you guys want to do but um in any case it is a really nice product why spend i mean if i had
to do the paint on paint yeah maybe the piton paint's a little cheaper but i'm out to open
every single aligner bag and open it up which makes it no longer sterile pull out that aligner
paint it like you're in between clothes and then put it back in the bag what a hassle that would
probably take me hours to do a whole case you know and that's a waste of staff time in my opinion
and sometimes patients don't like it they think it looks ugly so why bother all right thanks so much