As a company, DSD has authored, co-authored and contributed to numerous articles in clinical journals while our services, training and workflows are all evidence based.
In this post, Luken de Arbeloa - DSD Education Strategy Maestro specialized in prosthetics, implant prostheses and esthetic dentistry - examines one of these clinical articles to highlight the most important takeaways.
‘Interdisciplinary guided dentistry, digital quality control, and the “copy-paste” concepts’ was co-authored by Christian Coachman and published in the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry. In it, the authors propose three concepts to overcome the limitation in dentistry of making final outcomes similar to initial planning.
Read Luken’s thoughts on this article below.
What is the most important thing a dentist should understand about this article?
Luken de Arbeloa:“Achieving predictable and consistent results is one of the great challenges of dentistry. Taking into account that once the treatment is approved by the patient we must comply with what was agreed, this is something that commonly causes stress in our day-to-day practice due to the problems or challenges we can encounter during the execution phase.
The concept of ‘copy paste’ together with ‘guided dentistry’ is the result of a series of steps and workflows that allow us to gain the control and predictability we want in our cases and use digital quality control to verify that we have achieved what we expected.”
Does this article link to any other papers that DSD has co-authored or other researchers have published?
Luken de Arbeloa:“Yes, it links to the following papers co-authored by Christian Coachman:
Coachman C, Sesma N, Blatz MB. The complete digital workflow in interdisciplinary dentistry. Int J Esthet Dent. 2021;16:34-49.
Coachman C, Calamita MA, Coachman FG, et al. Facially generated and cephalometric guided 3D digital design for complete mouth implant rehabilitation: a clinical report. J Prosthet Dent. 2017;117: 577-586.
Coachman C, Calamita MA, Sesma N. From 2D to complete digital workflow in interdisciplinary dentistry. J Cosmetic Dent. 2016;32: 62-74.
Calamita M, Coachman C, Sesma N, Kois J. Occlusion vertical dimen- sion: treatment planning decisions and management considerations. Int J Esthet Dent. 2019;14:166-181.”
How does this knowledge influence how we teach at courses or our services at the DSD Planning Center?
Luken de Arbeloa: “The cases we receive at the DSD Planning Center go through the design and planning process as a starting point, which allows us to create realistic and possible treatment plans.
Once we have this initial starting point (where we want to go), we will then reverse engineer it to work out how we can achieve it and design devices that guide the execution of these treatments with the greatest possible precision.
Another service we offer at different phases is quality control. This enables us to ensure that the procedure was carried out as expected or, if there are any modifications, to be able to make adjustments without altering the expected final result.”
In our ‘Clinical Articles’ series we’ll be looking at clinical articles co-authored by Christian Coachman alongside other notable clinicians to highlight the topics we believe are relevant to dental professionals today.
Interdisciplinary guided dentistry, digital quality control, and the “copy-paste” concepts
Coachman C, Bohner L, Jreige CS, Sesma N, Calamita M. Interdisciplinary guided dentistry, digital quality control, and the “copy-paste” concepts. J Esthet Restor Dent. 2021;1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jerd.1...
