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Dr. David Paquette on Henry Schein's brackets
"When I first started working with Henry Schein Ortho, I was on the sleep apnea
task force, and at one of those meetings, general manager Ted Dreifuss asked if I'd try
some Henry Schein brackets," says Dr. David Paquette. "I kind of chuckled, put them in
my pocket, then tried them on about 10 patients.
"Fast-forward a year: Whenever I'm getting ready to go to the AAO, I always ask staff
how many orders of things we need, and they emphasized, 'But we want the new brackets.'
I asked why, and they replied, 'You haven't noticed how fast our patients are finishing
treatment? They're finishing in around a year. Everyone we've put in the treatments are
almost done.' I said, 'I've got to see this,' pulled the charts and, sure enough, it was true.
"I started trying to figure out how that could be, and why I wasn't having to make as
many detailing adjustments at the end of treatment to make things right. I found the
information in two journals that said the brackets are manufactured more precisely-if
the slot depth and width have tighter tolerances, then that's less variability between
patients, which leads to more predictable outcomes.
"The other thing I realized is that I wasn't having to go through numerous wires to
get where we wanted to go. We could cut out two wires and start with an 0.015, then go
to square wire and final, finishing with three wires instead of four or five. Now, my overall
treatment times have overall significantly reduced."
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In some cases, we'd actually get the
products intended for market, six months to
a year ahead of time, so I'll tell patients, "I
have this cool new product that I'd like to
try on you, if you're game-as long as you
understand we might have a few hiccups.
Let's see how it works." We give them
consideration for the inconvenience-you
have to take a lot more photos for records,
for example-so it's a win-win for both sides.
I'd say the success rate of those products
is well over 95%. It's not as much as a passversus-fail scenario; it's more of a process
where the product you're evaluating needs
to be modified or adjusted. The only one
I remember that didn't work out well was
years ago, when a bracket worked well
for six months but then fell apart because
it couldn't endure the rigors of the oral
environment.
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