Clear aligners

Reimbursement don't cover the costs of pulling a tooth or doing a crown.

They have to sell up all the time, whitening caps and Invisalign.

Botox with your HRT.

Viagra with your amlodipine.

Closed systems like Serac, Serona, you know, it was all the same parts.

and some dentists they like to mix printers and this and that and I noticed that Align Technology which is right in my backyard in Tempe and the CEO comes over every five years and does a podcast and he's got a closed system and you know it's all You know, you got to have Invisalign and it doesn't work with other stuff.

And I know a lot of dentists complain about that on Dentaltown or Orthotown.

And I'm confused because you have your own scanner, but you have Medit too.

system?

We're all for open systems.

There's pluses to iTero, the scanner from, you know, Invisalign or Inline Technologies.

We just opened up an office in Rawlick, North Carolina.

I've seen my orthodontist do a meeting with me on their plan for a patient.

He'll send me a short video of that, and I'm like – and all it is is him talking about – you know, he shows me the Invisalign setup or whatever and show what he wants to do with it, which is pretty impressive.

Honestly, it's, it's a lot of information in a short amount of time.

That's very helpful.

The first four, let's just say happen in no particular order.

But number one, you know, one of the five is referring dentists who do Invisalign and think they're doing it well, right? Or do braces and think they're doing it well.

Drives me freaking crazy, right? And they'll sit there and defend you how they're just helping patients and patients don't want to drive and, you know, access to care and all that other crap that goes along with it.

And you just gently try to remind them that they suck, that they're terrible at it.

Well, I'm trying to think, but also I'm a bit stressed.

I've kept my Invisalign in, which I don't know if it's a very good idea because I think I'm a bit lispy.

Okay.

I've taken mine out.

Yeah.

You'd be able to get implants as soon as the Invisalign is right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's a thing called Angel Liner Pro.

So it's similar to Invisalign.

But I wear one set for seven days and then another set for three days.

And then I'm at a loss.

Invisalign.

Didn't even notice.

See that? I love these things.

bottoms are like, some things are kind of getting a little wacky down below.

So, um, and my fraternity brothers is my dentist here actually and Chandler.

And he's like, dude, why don't you just do Invisalign and clean this shit up? So I'm like, all right, I'll do it.

And he gave it to me for like 50% off.

Yes.

I started doing Invisalign.

Do you know what Invisalign is? Yeah, it's where you put that thing to get your teeth.

So here's what you saw me do.

Oh, got it.

And I went like this.

So here's my Invisalign thing.

Yep.