S15: Digital Smile Design (DSD) and Digital Workflows for Inter-Disciplinary Care: Making Work With Your Dental Teams Easy.

Digital dentistry is making life easier for dentists.  With intraoral scanners, radiographs, and CBCTs all going into the cloud, this presents a chance for Dentist and Specialists to provide collaborative care at a level that has never been seen before.  In this class, we will show how new technologies like Digital Smile Design (DSD) and cloud based information storage and sharing (DSCore) can assist with inter-disciplinary planning and treatment for both simple and complex dental cases.  This leads to more predictable outcomes, shorter treatment times, and less confusion in the office or between providers.

Educational Objectives:

•  Understand basic digital dentistry workflows; define the key concepts, terminology, and principles of digital dentistry
• Introduction to DSCore, a cloud based patient education and doctor collaboration tool
• Learn the basics of Digital Smile Design (DSD)
• Case documentation and details needed for a DSD case
• Introduction to understanding a DSD Report and how it helps with treatment planning complex cases
• Understanding the concept of asynchronous communication, how DSCore makes it possible, and how both can speed up treatment times
• Learning the benefits of new digital tools to open more lines of communication and collaboration in the dental team
• Collective intelligence and the beauty of truly collaborative interdisciplinary care with the dental team