The 3-Appointment Smile Makeover

Overview

Dandy’s digital workflow makes it easy to deliver life-changing, predictable aesthetics in just 3-appointments. This guide outlines each step of the workflow from Consultation to Final-Restorations

Appointment 1: Consultation

In this appointment, you will scan, photograph, and order a Physical Wax-Up + Matrix for your patient. 

1. Enter your patient’s name and then select ‘Wax-Ups & Matrix’ from the main menu screen.

2. Select Physical Wax-Up & Matrix

   
3. Select the teeth you are planning to restore.
4. Choose the Matrix material you prefer.
5. Add patient photos: Scan the QR code with your mobile device, or select files from your computer you wish to add. This step is critical to delivering a final result you and your patient love. Dandy lab technicians will use these photos to design and produce final restorations unique to your patient.
6. Scan Upper, Lower, and Bites: Scan your patient. Make sure to complete all required scans.
7. Recommended: Add a Design Preview: Dandy will digitally design your wax-up and send it to you for approval before we 3D print the Physical Wax-Up and Matrix. This Design Preview can also be used to show the patient the final outcome of their smile so you can boost case acceptance.
   • Design Previews will be delivered to you for approval in the Dandy Portal - you will receive a notification via email/text depending on your notification preferences.
8. Choose Smile Style: Determine which smile style you want Dandy to design for your patient.

Appointment #2-  Smile Test Drive

Your Physical Wax-Up+ Matrix has now been delivered to your practice. In Appointment 2, you will temporize your patient with lab-designed temporaries using the Matrix, scan your patient with a Temp-Reference-Scan, and order the final restorations. The Smile Test Drive is an exciting appointment where your patient will see their future smile in their mouth!

1. Continuing your order: Dandy’s smart digital prescriptions will recognize you are in the middle of a treatment for your patient. When you type your patient’s name in Chairside you will be presented with a screen prompting you to continue the case. Select ‘Order final restoration’. Chairside already knows what tooth/teeth #s you will be restoring from the previous order, so you don’t need to add any of this information.
2. Choose Restorations & Materials: Select the fixed restoration type you plan to restore with (Crown, Bridge, Veneers). Then select the materials you would like Dandy to produce the restorations with. 
3. Scan & prep: Follow the guided scanning workflow. Prepare your patient's dentition and then rescan the preparation. Make sure that margins are clear and fully visible to ensure an accurate fitting final restoration.
4. Seat provisionals with  Matrix: Fill the Matrix with your preferred provisional material, ensuring the material is evenly distributed without voids. Align and fully seat the Matrix over the prepared tooth/teeth, maintaining steady pressure to ensure proper adaptation. Hold in place for the manufacturer’s recommended polymerization time. Remove the Matrix once set and use curing light if needed. Now, make any necessary adjustments.
5. Temp-Reference Scan: Next, following the guided scanning workflow, scan your patient’s temporaries. This scan will become the reference for Dandy lab technicians to design the final restorations. By scanning the temporaries we can create a final restoration that looks and functions just as you and your patient planned.  
6. Recommended: Add Design Preview
7. Add Patient Photos
8. Confirm shade of restorations
9. Design Changes: You will then be prompted with options on how to proceed with the final design of your restorations. 
   • Reference my seated temporary scan: Dandy will reference the form, function, and aesthetics of your patient’s current temporaries.
   • Replicate wax-up exactly
   • Replicate wax-up with adjustments:Choosing this option will open a new screen that allows you annotate the digital wax-up with any changes you want to see in the final restorations.
   • Pick a new smile style and re-design: Choosing this option will prompt you to choose a new smile style.
10. Complete the order and schedule your final seating appointment.

Appointment #3-  Final Restorations

Your patient’s final restorations have now been delivered to your practice. Using the Temp-Reference Scan from Appointment 2, you will deliver predictable restorations that fit and function how you and your patient planned. You will now remove the patient’s temporaries and seat the final restorations.