Well I survived the Townie meeting once again! What a great time. Between taking some great classes, having the honor of teaching a class myself, and seeing some of my best friends in the world, it has once again lived up to its billing for me.

What I'd like to relay to everyone is feedback on the Six Month Smiles course I took - it was awesome! I have been an Invisalign user for many years and still do a few cases a year. I wanted to be able to offer something to my patients that was similar but didn't take quite as long, and would be more cost effective for both of us. Taking this course will allow me to do just this. It focuses on the movement of the teeth in the cosmetic zone. Bites are not readily changed.

This will help a variety of different people in my practice. It will help those that come in with a minimal cosmetic complaint of some crowding or spacing and I can address it quickly. It will help me when trying to do a case using porcelain; I'll be able to quickly get the teeth in better position to allow me to be more conservative in my preparations. It will also help me to attain a great result on those patients who just know that they won't be compliant wearing the aligners.

Dr. Ryan Swain, the founder of Six Month Smiles, was our instructor. He reminds me of a really good CEREC trainer. He is so passionate about the product he is delivering to his patients. He had a vision to create a practice that was limited to this cosmetic orthodontic procedure and people thought he was nuts a few years back! I think of all the people who thought that getting into CAD/CAM was crazy, too. I just know how I felt doing offering the procedure. I know how my patients felt receiving this very different kind of treatment. I was doing something that I loved and it showed.

I really enjoyed taking this class; it has added another tool to my ever-growing tool belt, and it was a privilege to learn it from a person who is as passionate for what he teaches as I am about CEREC! I would highly recommend it to any of you looking to offer something new to your patients.