Dr. Ann Sielicki Increases Case Acceptance with Real-Time Cosmetic Smile Simulations

Dr. Sielicki (00:00) When patients see the simulation that Preview is able to provide for them, they are excited, surprised. You can imagine all of the emotions. It's eye-opening what the possibilities are. So it really makes a difference when they see their face and how much it enhances the way they look. They look younger, they look more vital. It's really cool. It's heartwarming. Hello, my name is Dr. Anne Sielicki, My practice is in Scottsdale, Arizona and it's primarily a comprehensive practice fee-for-service. I'm doing a lot of cosmetic cases and Prevu's been great on sharing with the patient what is possible for them. Some of the challenges that we were facing when we were sharing with patients with their possibilities having them actually see what it looks like in their face. We would show them photos of other cases that were similar to them. Sometimes I would outsource their new patient photo that we would have taken a profile picture and I've used another company in the past, but it would take, you know, like a week to get it back. So it's really nice that prevu is something that our team can upload while the patient is still in the office and then have the picture side by side. That's been a game-changer. I wanted to invest in this because it was something that was easily accessible for my team to learn and to be able to show the patient what they would look like if they invested in themselves to enhance their smile. I did some research to see what kind of products were out here where we could do this in the office versus me shipping it out to somebody else to handle. I felt like this was the easiest and best investment financially out of some of the other options that are out on the market today. I've had a couple patients where they're all about, I don't care how my teeth look, it's more about function. I want them to be healthy. And we'll do the prevu because we do it on all the new patients too, just for the possibility. And I think they're really surprised. then they get bought in on, well, what does that entail? They start asking more questions. So it gets beyond just fixing what's broken. I want to make myself look more youthful and healthy and have a nice smile and invest in themselves. Prevu definitely has saved time because they can see what is feasible in their smile and we can explain their options on how to get there. Obviously everybody's different and needs different things. So it opens and it starts the conversation to explain to them how we can get that end result if that's something that they desire. Showing patients the prevu and as far as what I feel more comfortable treatment planning, I do two-hour new patient comprehensive exams, so I make patients aware of all of their options. It's just really nice to be able to show their before and after so they can see what it would look like if they invested the time and money doing the steps to get to the final result that they see in that prevu. The prevu team was really, really good. My big thing was I didn't want to be investing time and money in a software product that I bought and then no one in the office was using. So we definitely pre-booked everything. I set up our schedule in the office so we had training with the whole team, and everybody knows how to use it. So that was a big thing for me. having this and actually utilizing it. We do use it. If you have any hesitations or you're on the fence on using it, I think it's a game-changer. I don't know why you wouldn't. I really wanted to make sure that my team was on board when I invested in this. You just have to use it. And you have to have the team members that know how to do it and are excited to do