hey it's dr amanda with straight smile solutions street smile solutions.com and today we're going
to talk again about scanners the itero and specifically which eye tarot should you get
and i have a lot of videos already made about scanners like i think i have my own playlist
so if you go to my youtube site not youtube in general my youtube site straight smile solutions
you can search through the playlist on the home page or you can go to that little magnifying glass
and search by keyword you could put in itero you can put in scanner and all the information
will come up today i'm specifically on the itero website and thank you invisalign for letting me
make this video actually i didn't ask permission but i'm making it anyways as always invisalign
you know how to reach me and people's out there i do not work for invisalign never have never will
i just make content videos you guys ask questions i answer the questions my way
my answer is my opinions if they're wrong or if anything i'm saying in this video is incorrect
invisalign you are more than welcome to contact me and i'll be giving me the correct information
because you haven't responded to my inquiries on this question when i've reached out to your team
members on linkedin and other places nobody's responding to me so i'm just going to make my
video based on my knowledge like i said if it's incorrect or you want it remade feel
free to send me the proper information and i'll remake it so um all right which eye tarot should
you get so let's say you decided on the itero so watch all my other videos on the why behind that
obviously it's not always the right fit for everybody but if you have decided on the itaro
here's some tricks and tips to get the lowest possible price which one you should pick
obviously everybody wants new and shiny things and the latest the greatest but is that the best thing
for you so basically it's almost impossible to get a price quote without getting a demo
um so here's what i've talked to so many doctors and here's
basically i'm compiling all their information so a lot of it depends on where you live regionally
depending on the price quote it also depends on maybe what your rank is within invisalign
obviously if you're a little bit higher they know that you're going to do a lot more cases they can
maybe come down a little bit on the price but for the most part this plus or this 5d is running
more around 37 to 41k is my understanding and a little bit more if you're getting the
fancier screen the bigger screen you can get those portable options and other stuff obviously those
are going to cost more so somewhere between 37 and 41k if you have an existing meta scanner and some
other scanners they do have a trade-in program which is around 15 000 i think it depends on what
scanner you have and the quality of the scanner but that will help to lower that keep in mind that
there is a support fee so it's not a completely open scanner you do have to purchase the support
you can pay for the you can bundle the support in and finance it all up front like a five-year
support is an additional 21k or so that makes it about 50 000 unless you have the trade-in
uh you get pretty good financing on that because you know you're gonna anyways otherwise it's
about 360 a month in support so you do need to factor that in you also need to factor in the
price of the tips um for the 5d and some of these other ones i believe they're about five dollars
per tip which is a fair amount i think most of their tips are disposable it's pretty expensive
i wish you could buy it in bulk um they might have some autoclavable ones but i heard they're
very fragile and obviously it takes labor to autoclave them but i don't really know
i don't think they last very long someone said they had them i didn't even know they had them so
if you for certainly if you're listening to this video and you have more information feel free
to post the correct information in the comment section because i don't mind that at all because
i'm always learning um another option is the two the two is basically the workhorse it will
do pretty much everything the five can do just a tad slower like a couple seconds slower maybe
not as pretty graphics aren't as pretty it doesn't have that neri technology so the neri technology
certainly if you were a pediatric dentist or if you saw a ton of kiddos it would make more sense
to get the 5d neri because it has the caries detection which is incredibly powerful to show
parents and you know um to catch early decay to catch things that the patient you know isn't gonna
be able to sit still for x-rays or something i mean i think that's that's a no-brainer for a pedo
um or for a practice that is general and does a lot of kids for a regular orthodontist
i mean i think you could just if you're just using it only for restorative and aligners i would just
get the two because it's way cheaper so the two is running around 21k is my understanding somewhere
around there 20 000 i don't know if they have a trade-in program for the two that would be cool
but my understanding is at the moment the trade is only for the fancy new one um but you know
twenty thousand twenty one thousand is not bad plus the tips for the two are only about three
dollars each of course i think you still have the support i don't know if it's the same price or not
i'm assuming it is so basically your cost for the support is almost the same price for five years
is the cost for the two so i mean it's going to be almost the same price right so if you can i know i
hesitate to purchase support up front because i think these things can totally change the other
thing that is kind of cool is that you they have a try it to buy it option and i think this is really
quite tempting it's a 90-day program you get it i think you can get the i know you can get the
two i don't know if you can get the five i'm assuming you can i know if you get the two you
can try it and you can upgrade to the five i know the five has about a two month wait to get set up
but i think you can get that or to get it delivered i'm telling people or maybe it's
not that maybe it's just for the training and like onboarding it takes two months it's not immediate
i think the two is faster don't know if that's true this is just what i'm hearing people are
telling me once you decide to pull the trigger it takes many months before you're up and running and
i think that's unfortunate um but you know again if i'm incorrect on that feel free to let me know
not sure why that is but someone said with the two you can get it really really fast
so personally unless you're a pediatrics or somebody who saw tons of kiddos and we're
using it for cavity deduction to me it makes more sense to get the two unless you got the trade-in
and then you can trade in for the five but all right that's pretty much all i have to
say but remember the benefit of the itero is of course you can use it for invisalign
and also it's got that outcome simulator which is incredibly powerful in order to sell the case
because seeing is believing once they see what it looks like you know without having to even submit
for the clinch act just right on the spot you know oh wow that's my teeth but they're straight
you know um very very very powerful and i also heard that you can switch out the wand on the
two you can pay a little extra to get the super slim lighter wand so that might be a good idea too
and they also have a laptop version and i'll have it on here but i'm not sure if it's only in the
5 or if they have it in the 5 and the 2 and what the price is but it's just i believe the wand only
and then you plug it into any computer but it's nice because in that case it's portable and you
can just take it from opt op office to office instead of having it on a gigantic rolling cart um
so that's really really you know if you've got multiple offices that makes a lot of sense
um i know some doctors that will just basically have a certain day in each office be an invisalign
day and they bring the i tarot in for that day and if you're scheduled for a consult then
you know they do it on that day i mean it's always better to have it in every office because i think
for general pediatric dentists you really should be scanning every single patient in your office
every single time they come in well i mean not that but at least once a year you know
because standard of care is fixing bites and pretty much everyone needs something
so unless you present the patient the options they don't really understand it so
it's always great it's non-invasive scans don't irradiate or anything like that so
it's just a series of photos basically you know like a hundred thousand photos
you know it just it just meshes those photos together into a seamless scan so it's pretty
totally non-invasive you know for me i don't see any problem with everybody having a scan once a
year but all right thanks so much and i always say challenge me show me your clinchack with
your records challenge me i will find a reason this patient needs treatment i'm not saying that
i'm overselling i'm just saying that i have a set of eyes that can explain the why very rarely will
i say they do not need treatment and that would be somebody that was already treated probably and
has retainers so i mean anyone from age basically seven on up is a potential candidate in my world
it might be something minor but that doesn't mean just because you think it's minor doesn't mean the
patient thinks it's minor and so often patients don't even know they're offering treatment and
they don't even know that they're a candidate they may not even know that they have insurance
benefits for that so all you can do is just educate your patient give them options don't
be super salesy just explain the why and let them make their own decisions alright thanks so much