When patients are looking to establish a dental home, what factors lead them to you and keep them with you? What prepares them for a great patient experience? Is your practice appreciated more for its technical expertise and esthetic excellence, its ergonomic and emotional sustainability or for its pain-reduction strategies and sense of humor?
All are important but, at the end of the day, which perceptions do you value most?
Dentistry is physically and emotionally demanding. The delivery of local anesthetics impacts both patients and clinicians as we strive to minimize discomfort. To deliver optimal dentistry in a gentle, pain-free manner, the value of treatment strategies must be considered from all perspectives, including the patient’s and the clinician’s.
Seasoned clinicians have preferred distraction strategies when it comes to administering local anesthesia, but these strategies rely on subjective factors. Most clinicians use manual syringes, for example, and strategies involving manipulations when using manual syringes can lead to poor ergonomic positioning, possibly worsened by individual factors.
Rate, fluid pressures and adequacy of aspiration are just a few of the factors that may vary. While we benefit daily from the explosion of technical advances in devices, materials and techniques geared to deliver high-quality dentistry in a positive and comfortable manner, manual syringes can compromise not only our success but our ergonomic well-being.
When considering technology that can enhance patient and clinician well-being, the Wand STA All-Injection System (sold exclusively through Aseptico Inc.) is a win-win.
This computer-controlled, local anesthesia delivery (CCLAD) device can reduce stresses on the hand and wrist (ergonomic advantage — clinician) while providing accurate and controlled flow rates, fluid pressures and aspiration capabilities (comfort and safety advantage — patient).
In today’s busy practice environment, creating sustainable practice patterns that recognize the importance of every practice’s two most critical assets, patients and clinicians, calls for integration of new technologies into the daily routine.
Technologies that enhance technical excellence in a pain-free manner while supporting ergonomic principles are good for everyone.
Note: This article was published in Implant Tribune U.S. Edition, Vol. 9, No. 10, October 2014 issue.
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