If you want to incorporate these types of cases into your practice, you will need to do a few things before starting to identify patients.

Everyone in your practice needs to know that you want to offer these types of treatment plans. At your next team meeting, let your team members know what your intentions are, and use this website to educate them.

Your team members all have a role to play, therefore it is important for them to be educated on the concept, vocabulary, and most importantly, the flow of the treatment plan. It is difficult to be enthusiastic about a treatment you know nothing about.

Your team members have an incredible influence over case acceptance as they spend most of their time with the patients. In many instances they are trusted even more than the doctor.

Your receptionist needs to have the right training and script to answer the phone. He/she is your front line and needs to be well trained. Your Dental hygienist needs to recognize future candidates and begin introducing the patients to implant dentistry. Your front office manager should look through all your patients’ files for both edentulous patients and patients with terminal dentition.

Your waiting room should have marketing pieces promoting your services and your website needs to feature these types of treatment plans. Ideally you want to feature patient testimonials.

Your case presentation to the patient will require models to outline the difference between restorations, featuring their advantages and disadvantages.

Case presentation a crucial element of high case acceptance, and is often overlooked, but it is not as important as the entire “Patient Experience” within your practice.

Candidtates

Although fully edentulous patients are obvious candidates for a Conus treatment, patients with failing dentition also benefit from such a procedure. In fact, you may find patients with failing dentition more open to the treatment option.

Edentulous patients are often accustomed to life with dentures, and in many cases have accepted that fact. It is much harder for a dentate patient to accept the fact that they are going to lose all their teeth. Because of this, you may find these patients more motivated to embrace this type of treatment.

Other potential candidates for Conus: