The Align communication effect: How better consultations build thriving practices

What to expect

One connected platform transforming digital workflows, clinical planning and patient communication into a first-class patient journey and sustainable practice growth.

This webinar, delivered by Colm O'Loghlen, will develop delegates understanding of how Align’s connected digital platform can support patient communication and consent, visualisation of potential treatment outcomes, clinical treatment planning and, through practice differentiation, drive ethical growth.

Learning objectives

• Explain how Align Oral Health Suite can support the communication of oral health findings and treatment recommendations, helping patients better understand their oral health and participate in informed treatment decisions.

• Describe and evaluate how Invisalign Outcome Simulator Pro and Smile Architect can be used to visualise potential treatment outcomes and support patient communication, treatment discussions and shared decision-making.

• Outline how the Flex Rx treatment plan submission tool can streamline the submission process, reduce administrative steps and improve workflow efficiency when preparing Invisalign treatment plans.

• Identify practical ways to integrate Align’s connected digital tools into the patient journey to improve consent, support clinical planning and ethically drive practice growth.

Development outcome

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Meet the speaker

Colm O’Loghlen qualified from University College Cork in 2002 before emigrating to the UK to work in a mixed private/NHS general practice in Wymondham, Norfolk.

Eighteen months later he moved to a fully private practice in the coastal town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk where he remained until returning to Ireland in 2007.

He started his first Invisalign case in 2003 and has been steadily building experience and evolving his treatment style as Invisalign cases have grown. He has now treated over 1000 cases.

During his time in the UK, Colm completed a certificate in implant dentistry at the University of Manchester and also attended the Eastman Dental Institute (UCL) where he completed his Masters in Restorative Dental Practice.

Colm also completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation in Trinity College Dublin in 2012.

Bridge Place Dental Practice was opened by Colm with the support of his father in 2007. He has pursued a course of using the latest proven technologies to deliver minimally invasive treatment. He is particularly interested in digital dentistry including iTero, Invisalign, CAD-CAM, CBCT, implants, 3D printing, lasers and adhesive dentistry.

Since opening, the practice has grown to a staff of 22 including 6 dentists and a regular visiting periodontist and provides a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment. Modern dental consumers expect all dentistry to be aesthetic. Invisalign has been at the core of meeting this expectation and consequently the growth of Bridge Place Dental Practice.