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season's greetings I'm Jim glidewell here to reflect briefly on another remarkable year
for Dentistry like most years 2022 had its ups and downs global conflict social unrest record
inflation skyrocketing interest rates with so many challenges around us it would be easy to
get discouraged but times of trouble are often fertile ground for positive change adapt or die
they say well that suits us that glidewell just fine you see we live for Innovation despite our
many advancements our eye is fixed constantly on the future because the only way to meet our
mission of increasing patient access to Quality Dentistry is to improve the speed quality and cost
effectiveness of the methods and materials available to you their dedicated providers
so as we turn the page on another year I thought I'd take a moment to share a few of our recent
examples the biggest story in dentistry continues to be the rapid adoption of digital Technologies
we've met this demand in the lab with our shift towards digital cases
the development of CT impression scanning increased use of 3D printing advances in
artificial intelligence and proprietary software and the continued growth of Brookshire Factory
we're also working feverishly to bring the lab chair side with glidewell.io with services and
support no other company can match our introduction of the fastscan.io scanning
solution was another important step in partnering with dentists at the point of treatment and we
have a lot of exciting developments planned for the future instead of losing lab business
as some of us once feared we're finding that helping dentists control their own restority
workflow is actually increasing their willingness and ability to reach out to us in other areas
of course bruxer zirconia and all of its forms remains our bread and butter this
year we added the Berkshire now Bridge block to our family of no oven weight materials we
also made Brookshire aesthetic Milling blanks available to outside labs for the first time
next year expect new formulations of our signature material brand to set even higher standards of
beauty and performance our implant Department continues to show strength on the shoulders
of brux or demand but also saw noticeable upticks in implant retained removables and advancement in
digital treatment planning more and more dentists are taking advantage of the 20 everyday savings
we offer for glidewell Restorations over Han tapered implants enjoying our lifetime warranty
that covers the entire restorative stack from implant to Crown and we continue to add more
and more implant systems to our comprehensive line of inclusive prosthetic components so the
clinicians can save up to 78 percent over the cost of OEM Parts like screws and abutments
digital Dentistry was again the prevailing theme in our preventative care departments
with a tremendous rise in additive manufacturing demand for Comfort 3D
the end snores sleep Appliance launched exclusively at New West and early 2023.
we'll see this technology expand to mandibular advancement devices and we're still just grassing
the surface of what will be when it comes to 3D printing materials and services speaking
of sleep appliances we introduced the silent night sleep Appliance with glidewell hinge the new hinge
feature qualifies for Medicare reimbursement reducing the cost to the patient's 65 and
older so that more of them can find relief from snoring and obstructive sleep apnea these are
just some of the areas that paid big dividends in 2022 and there's much more in store for 2023
as always I'd like to commend our incredible r d teams including engineering manufacturing business
development and other support departments despite skyrocketing prices lingering supply
chain concerns and other prevailing challenges these proud folks continue to innovate and bring
exciting new products to Market that will ensure our continued success not just today but tomorrow
in 2022 we came back full force after a quiet calendar during the pandemic clinicians were
eager to return to in-person learning and our clinical education department met the demand
and with an incredible supply of industry-leading Education including three symposiums in our brand
new glidewell clinical Education Center we hosted an implant Symposium in June and an
aesthetic Symposium in October followed the very next week by the first ever glidewell.io
experience dubbed iox we welcome 600 dentists and staff to our campus for these events providing 5
400 hours of continuing education credit many of you might have seen us conducting visitor
tours of our facilities during these events let me tell you the response was dramatic
dentists simply cannot believe all that we have going on here and their amazement is
a key driver in generating additional business and loyalty these events were so successful in
fact that we plan to host no fewer than eight symposia next year in addition to these wildly
successful symposia we welcome clinicians to the glidewell campus to attend a wide selection of
live courses from implants to mastering aesthetic Transformations and more globally we provided over
a hundred and twenty thousand hours of continuing education units to dentists throughout the weekly
glidewell online Study Club and we offered sixteen thousand hours of continuing education through
our online training videos and chairside magazine education offerings have long served as a gateway
to working with glidewell and will continue to be a principal driver in our new future growth
our construction teams were as busy as ever this year as we continued our campus expansion which
now stretches across 30 Acres most notably we unveil the brand new glidewell clinical
education center as well as the new Dupont Center restaurant which offers delicious dining to both
the public and our glidewell employees the glidewell clinical education center is a
world-class state-of-the-art facility designed to support our extensive clinical education calendar
they also developed an amazing new glidewell.io training center in our Von Carmen building
after 52 years of consistent growth I've learned not to let external forces rattle my focus
rather than obsessed over factors beyond our control we take our destiny into our own hands
with an ear to your needs and a vertically integrated operation
we're dedicated to helping you simplify treatment optimize results and improve more lives I hope you
too have found Focus amid this year's distractions and managed to take meaningful strides in the
advancement of your practice because these days the world needs all of the smiles you can provide
to you and the pace that you serve I wish you a safe and prosperous New Year
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