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What Technology Is Right For Your Practice?

What Technology Is Right For Your Practice?
by Louis Malcmacher, DDS, MAGD

Integrating new technology in your practice doesn’t have to be painful.

It’s time to take a fresh look at dental technology. There are a lot of technology choices available to dentists today. Whether you’re in practice for the next 30 years or retiring within the next five years, you’re going to have to make a technology choice.

The right choice of technology can rapidly improve your practice’s bottom line, provide better treatment and patient outcomes, and grow your practice. The wrong choice of technology can complicate clinical care, provide for poor treatment outcomes, waste your time and money, and bankrupt your practice.

I want to make one point very clear — technology is not just a piece of capital equipment that you invest in. Every dental material and technique that you choose for your practice is also a result of new technology. Rapid dental innovation drives technology, which constantly improves patient care through new techniques and procedures that are able to be accomplished for better treatment outcomes than ever before.

When we look at new technology choices for our practices, I break it down into two categories of dental technology choices.

Integrative technology

Integrative technology is any procedure, material or capital equipment that can be quickly and efficiently integrated into the present office structure and schedule. In other words, if I adopt something new for my practice, I don’t have to change the physical structure of my office or the personnel to adapt to the technology. There are two subsets of integrative technology:

Capital equipment integrative technology includes dental lasers — like the Solea® Dental Laser from Convergent Dental — scalpels and high-speed handpieces. Most certainly, training for you and your team on using the actual technology is essential, but after that it fits into your present physical structure quickly and easily without any other disruptions.

Read full article on Dental Products Report.