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CareCredit Adds Free Practice Management
Audio Program to Educational Library
CareCredit is expanding its educational library with The Art of Successful Patient Conversations, a new audio program by Katherine Eitel Belt, CEO and founder of LionSpeak, a company that aims to help professionals communicate in a powerful and authentic way.
In the program, Belt provides insight and practical tools that enable teams to have comfortable and effective financial conversations on the phone and in the practice. She shares how to uncover the team’s belief systems about money and how those belief systems can affect financial conversations. She also shares how teams can inadvertently discourage treatment acceptance, and how to effectively respond when a new patient’s first question is, “Do you take my insurance?”
Practices that currently accept the CareCredit health care credit card can request a free copy of this audio program by contacting their practice development team at 800-859-9975, Option 1, then 6. Practices that don’t use CareCredit can call 800-300-3046, Option 5, to request their free copy.
Align Technology Introduces Invisalign Clear Aligners for Phase 1 Treatment
Align Technology is extending the Invisalign product family with Invisalign First clear aligners, designed with features specifically for younger patients with early mixed dentition. The new aligners are designed to address a broad range of younger patients’ malocclusions, including shorter clinical crowns, management of erupting dentition and predictable dental arch expansion.
Invisalign First clear aligners expand on key Invisalign innovations with new features and functionality, such as optimized attachments designed for younger patients with shorter tooth crowns and improved and expanded eruption compensation features that make it possible to treat erupting or changing dentition.
Invisalign First clear aligners have been used to treat more than 600 patients and will be commercially available to Invisalign-trained doctors in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the EMEA region beginning July 1.
Ormco’s Insignia Global Users Meeting Set for September in Amsterdam
Ormco will host its eighth annual Insignia Global Users Meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the Beurs van Berlage from Sept. 20–22.
Featuring clinical presentations, interactive discussions, mentoring sessions and networking opportunities, the meeting aims to arm doctors and staff with the clinical dialogue, case presentation and global expertise needed to grow their practices and provide the best possible patient care.
From discussing digital technologies to successful clinical and business objectives in orthodontia, the meeting’s program provides personalized workshops and highlights the latest insights from top orthodontists around the world. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in numerous workshops addressing advanced approaches and techniques to increase practice productivity with Insignia. The program will also focus on the latest software upgrades and advancement for Insignia.
Several notable speakers from around the world are scheduled to present, including Drs. David Sarver, Chris Chang, Sonia Palleck, Timothy Bandeen, Leon Verhagen and David González Zamora.
For more information, visit ormco.com/education.