When I first heard about clear aligners in the early 2000s (the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of clear aligners to straighten teeth in 1980), it must have sounded like science fiction. The fact that it was created in Silicon Valley by people who had nothing to do with the dental industry, in seeking solutions that do not require complicated appliances in the mouth, is really an incredible story.
Why do we need to straighten teeth? How do we do it? What is the best way? These are the big questions nowadays, and I think that the answers to these questions, as well as how we actually do these treatments, have changed over the past decades.
On June 9th I had the honour of stepping on stage at the Payt Forward Congress in Amersfoort, in the Netherlands.
For those who have been paying attention to the latest news in the technology space, you will most certainly have noticed that OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. It is amazing to see how this technology works and how quickly it can do incredibly complex tasks and have virtually all the information that is online at your disposal in a matter of seconds.
In an interview with Maxillaris, the vice-president of the Digital Dentistry Society – and member of several international scientific and academic institutions – predicts that in the future “it will be the patient who will be making more conscious decisions, assisted by artificial intelligence”.
In the last decade, we’ve seen the food industry change the way it markets what we consume. Nowadays there is much more concern about how our food is produced, packaged and distributed, and the whole organic food industry, free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and pesticides has really impacted this process.
This past weekend was dedicated to the Bone & Tissue Days in Opatija, Croatia, a congress organised by Botiss Dental, where the focus is on dental hard and soft tissue regeneration.
Leading experts on CAD-CAM dentistry will be converging in beautiful Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, on October 3rd and 4th, for two full days of software education, partner shows and international guest speakers.
Ever since I opened the doors of the White Clinic in 1999, my team and I have always had a “start-up” mentality. Why? Because no two days are the same and we need to be prepared for anything. We always need to be on top of our game. Why? Because experience matters.
I am beyond excited to be speaking at the 50th Annual Ernest M. Jones Memorial Lecture at Washington State University in Seattle, on September 16th.
Ekaterina Miheeva reached out to me all the way from Australia after about 3 years of battling a series of physical and psychological symptoms that not only did not go away, but that more than 10 doctors, 15 naturopaths, and multiple exams, including a brain scan, endoscopies and colonoscopies, simply could not solve.
Dr. Miguel Stanley, considered one of the top 100 dentists in the world, is the founder and clinical director of the internationally-recognized White Clinic, a leading Dental Center based in Lisbon.
