dr amanda with straight smile solutions straight smile solutions.com and today we're going to
talk about the deception that goes on within the invisalign doctor locator and as you all
know i do not work for line technology i have never worked for learning technology no where
will i ever work for a line technology however i do like the product but i branded myself as
someone that's direct straightforward and tells the truth especially you know related to anything
having to do with orthodontics so you know a lot of i do have a patient or consumer-facing facebook
group that i just do as community service because my core client is not at all a consumer in fact
i don't work with consumers at all i only work with dentists and dsos dental professionals so
but i get so many consumers that try to ask me questions so i created a facebook group just
that just kind of runs itself and i moderate it just so that there's truth but one thing i
see a lot is they're all looking for invisalign doctors a good one you know and they're looking
for referrals and stuff and i'm glad to moderate that discussion but a lot of times people get hung
up on this deception that is oh my doctor is platinum or my doctor is diamond plus so they
must be super experienced that is bs to the max because i can tell you the shady stuff that goes
on that doctors and there's nothing okay it's really not necessarily shady because it's like
it's a loophole if doctors find an opportunity to either save money or to raise their status and it
doesn't cost them more they're going to take it that means they're just smart so but that doesn't
necessarily mean they're more experienced or better and that's what i want you all know to know
um there's all kind of sketchy stuff that goes on so what a lot of doctors will do is they'll work
in a group with other friends around the country and they'll run their cases through another
doctor's invisalign portal so that it's almost like crowd sourcing you know like in a group we
have 10 times more cases so we'll be diamond now we'll get the um we'll get the discount you know
a 35 38 lab discount which means that and and you know we rise in the doctor locator rank and
we'll get referrals through that so that's going to get us more patients and lower costs
i don't really know how this works and it seems to me like and i i know people personally who do
this so you know there's a lot of it that goes on there's orthodontists and i think
i don't invisalign must know because they see these sub-accounts in these sub-accounts so
maybe it's legal for these orthodontists to run all the cases through them and then have
general dentists do it but a lot of times the orthodontists are not doing the treatment plan
nor do the general dentists who someone else does their treatment plan know what's going on
so i guess for me i do have my own invisalign consulting company but my ultimate goal i mean
yes we we help doctors do their clint checks but i use the word help because we don't want to do
them for you we want to teach you how to do them you know and there's always sometimes when doctors
are super busy hey can you just do this for me but ultimately we're going to explain the why behind
it and not just do the work for them so that way your doctor super understands what's going on
there's nothing worse than a doctor that just has someone do it's like cheating doing your homework
for you you know if your doctor did not do their own clinchack you know then or at least be part of
the discussion and doing their clint check they don't know what they're doing so just because
your doctor is a diamond or a platinum doesn't mean they necessarily do their own clinchex it
also doesn't necessarily mean that they know what they're doing so anyways so i guess my question
if if you look at your bag and you see a different doctor's name on the bag of your invisalign that's
not your doctor that's a sign that your doctor is using a sub account which it's not illegal
as far as i know i mean invisalign allows it but it's really not fair to the doctors that actually
play the game properly and are working their way up with experience but in any case there's a lot
of that going on there's also that going on in big managed care practices um a lot of times
it's even general dentists that that team up and one general dentist and then there'll be lots of
sub general dentists but anyways i'm going on and on but you get the idea basically to me invisalign
doctor locator means very little because it's so easy to bypass and skirt the rolls so
do not pick your doctor based on where they are on the doctor locator i don't recommend that at all
you should ask questions and i have a really great blog on what questions to ask to know if
your doctor's experience and i believe i've also turned that blog into a youtube video
so can't remember the title of it you can put in like invisalign provider
braces and it probably will come up if you go to the blog you can go to my website straight
smile solutions click about us click blog and you can put that in if you can't find it about
how to pick an invisalign provider how to pick the right doctor you can email me and i'll send
it to you info straightsmilesolutions.com just let me know specifically what you're
looking for and i will send you that video all right hopefully that was helpful thanks