{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Orthodontic Products Podcast","title":"What Happens When a Practice Trades Traditional Indirect Bonding for Digital Bonding","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1854,"description":"GUEST: Sam Wise, DDS, MS\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION: Transitioning from traditional indirect bonding to a fully digital workflow can reshape a practice's efficiency, chair time, and clinical consistency. In this episode of the Orthodontic Products Podcast, sponsored by Solventum, host Alison Werner speaks with Sam Wise, DDS, MS, an orthodontist with a thriving multi-chair practice in North Canton, Ohio.\nWise shares his journey from hand-prepping bonding trays at his kitchen island to fully embracing Solventum's Clarity Digital Bonding workflow with APC Flash-Free Adhesive. He details how the switch let him combine new patient exams and records into a single visit, delegate tray prep entirely to his clinical team, cut his personal chair time for a bonding appointment to about one or two minutes, and all but eliminate the staining and micro-leakage that came with traditional bonding methods.\nKEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE EPISODE:\nCombining new patient exams and records appointments speeds up ordering digital bonding trays and enables same-day contract starts.\nDelegating tray ordering, tracking, loading, and seating to clinical staff has cut chair time for bonding appointments to about a minute or two.\nAPC Flash-Free Adhesive reduces decalcification, staining, and variability among staff with differing levels of experience.\nMarketing the \"new high-tech way\" versus the \"old way\" helps differentiate a practice to both patients and referring doctors.\nThinner trays and built-in bite turbos are already improving digital bonding, with pre-loaded trays and AI-assisted setups on the horizon.\nCHAPTERS:\n01:17 Dr. Wise's journey into orthodontics\n04:31 Bringing indirect bonding into the practice\n06:51 How digital bonding transformed the practice\n07:57 COVID, a partner's departure, and the switch to Solventum's digital bonding\n09:17 Combining appointments and same-day starts\n10:09 Life before digital bonding: the \"kitchen lab\" era\n13:33 Why the bonding appointment matters\n15:45 The role of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X7NlGtFJvqHBgyo4lxMYZd0wh7HWxd6v1dPEuUfTRFA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ0MjcwLzE2OTI2/NzUzNjYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}