For practice owner and general dental practitioner Sanaa Kader, clear aligner treatment is not just about straightening teeth – but a gateway to life-changing multidisciplinary dentistry.
Since adopting ClearCorrect at its UK launch in 2007, Dr Sanaa Kader has integrated it into complex treatment plans, combining it with Straumann implants to achieve remarkable results.
Sanaa highlights an award-winning case that perfectly illustrates this synergy. The patient presented with severe crowding and a discoloured tooth, leaving no space for a dental implant.
‘We removed the tooth, used ClearCorrect to align the teeth and cleverly placed a pontic within the aligner during treatment,’ she explains. This approach created the ideal spacing for a dental implant, which was placed using a fully digital workflow with Straumann’s Smile in a Box.
The result transformed the patient’s life, giving her the confidence to secure a job as a teacher. ‘She is confident, living her life and sends lots of referrals to us,’ says Sanaa.
Seamless collaboration
This level of treatment is underpinned by a powerful digital ecosystem. Sanaa points to tools like Smile Cloud, which allows for seamless collaboration with labs and other clinicians on multidisciplinary cases, describing it as a ‘game-changer’.
ClearCorrect’s free case setup has also been instrumental, enabling the practice to demonstrate treatment possibilities to more patients without obligation, says Sanaa: ‘Free case setup has meant we’ve been able to smile-design a lot more patients, which has led to a bigger uptake of patients.
‘We’ve done a better quality of work. We’ve created a reputation. We get lots of referrals from family and friends, and other dentists in the area who’ve seen the work we can do.’
For dentists inspired to expand their clinical horizons and explore the full potential of multidisciplinary treatment, the next step is the two-day ClearCorrect accreditation course.
Visit ClearCorrect’s website to find out more and book your place today.
This article is sponsored by Straumann.
