Dr. Arash Zarrinpour
• Doctor in Dental Surgery
• Master of Biological and Medical Sciences
• Postgraduate Certificate in Biomaterials
• Postgraduate Certificate in Fixed Prosthetics
• PhD in Biology and Biomaterials of the oral and bone environment
• Centre for Orthodontic treatment studies
• Postgraduate in clinical advance orthodontics (NY University)
How does Smilers® integrates digital workflows?
Smilers® Expert has a very clear goal of making it simple and efficient for everyone. You upload oral scans STL files from any scanners brand, CBCT DICOM files, jaw tracker data, and photos or face scans on a web-based portal called LaGalaxy. From there Smilers® and Biotech Dental teams will integrate and overlaid all the records to your patient files and make them available for any kind of planning regarding your prescriptions. Very easy and convenient.
They have a top-notch team of orthodontist experts that take care of the setups and do treatment plans for all the cases.
What makes Smilers® different from other aligners brands?
Well, one of the main differences between Smilers® and other aligners brands is that Smilers® is part of the Biotech Dental Group which offers not only orthodontic solutions but also other dentistry solutions such as surgery, implants, prosthetics, smile designs and more. As a result, the treatment planning made by Smilers® team integrates a complete multidisciplinary solution. So, the practitioner becomes some kind of project architect, simulating the whole treatment plan. This is much better for the patients who don’t need to consult several different doctors, different specialists using many different brands and systems, which is often confusing and time consuming.
What are the advantages of CBCT and photos superimpositions, or bone and root segmentations, on treatment plannings?
Thanks to NemoStudio software owned by Biotech Dental, Smilers® has been one of the first brands to offer CBCT, STL and photo superimposition for almost 5 years now. This is allowing to have root and bone segmentations which lead to a much better simulation and accuracy of teeth movements and intelligent calculations of mandibular and condylar positioning.
The result is a better predictability of movements, better 3D orientation of models and plans, and a much more precise inter maxillary planning. A whole new world of possibilities for us.
What is the Smilers® Expert’s Smile Set Up software?
The Smilers® Expert Smile Set Up software is a web-based solution allowing orthodontists to check the 3D treatment plans dynamic simulations, and do any modifications needed on the patient’s setups. It is a wonderful, simplified version of NemoCast free of charge for Smilers® Expert clients. Orthodontists can do the whole setup by themselves if they want, or let Smilers® Expert orthodontists prepare one for them and then if needed, modification of attachments, movements, IPR, incredible staging possibilities.
Doctors will also have access to the whole solutions offered by Smilers® through LaGalaxy and check everything with the Smile Set Up software: bone and root segmentations, mini screw or implants positioning, smile designs and mock-ups, overlays, mandibular repositioning and more.
Dr. Zarrinpour, you have been working with Smilers® for more than 7 years, in your opinion how do you think digital technology has revolutionised the aligners market?
The I have treated more than 3,000 cases with Smilers® for 7-8 years I believe, and I saw the digital technology evolving at a tremendous speed. Nowadays using oral scans, CBCT, photography software and monitoring, 3D printers is becoming common for many offices like mine. It has completely changed our way of working and serving patients. We changed our organisation, our chair time, delegate more, the prices are getting lower, competition is tougher, and patients can buy aligners over internet now, as if it was a game! The everyday challenge is very interesting, we focus on giving the best and Smilers® is truly helping us for it.
Could you share an experience in which working with Smilers® was truly useful?
I am thinking of a difficult 16-year-old girl case. She had lot of issues with her smile, missing teeth, remaining temporary teeth, TMD with clicking, opening restriction and pain: no one knew exactly what to do and so prevented from treating her. Thanks to the Smilers® experts we did a complete outcome smile simulation, including new vertical dimension, bite, orthodontics, extractions, implants, crowns, and veneers.
Then they sent us a digital 2D photo simulation of her future smile, and a 3D mockup model with a try on template that we could adapt to her teeth for motivation and validation! Then we did all the different treatment steps with a multidisciplinary team. All the element – bite, aligners, surgical guides, temporary prostheses, permanent ones – were prepared and sent by Smilers® for over 20 months or so, it was hell of a great job with a fantastic result. No other brand of my knowing is offering this kind of complete and integrated solutions.
