The benefits of truly understanding your patients

Quality of life is significantly lower for the completely edentulous patient, and truly understanding the reality of this can be beneficial for your practice. “Same Day Teeth: 12 Months of Nurture, Two Hours in the Chair” will be presented by Pravesh Solanki in the Team Programme at the ADI Team Congress 2022. He gives an insight into why dental nurses, hygienists, therapists and practice managers should have a shared understanding of the implant patient’s mindset:

“With respect to any treatment, including same day teeth, it’s important for the whole team to have a true understanding of the technique and clinical side of things. As well as this, an understanding of the day-to-day problems that the patient faces without a solution is integral to ensuring patients have a positive experience in practice. Typically, these patients are denture wearers who walk around with a stick of denture glue, embarrassed to smile, lacking in confidence, and unable to eat the foods they want – this presents a functional problem and can lead to poor diet and ill-health.