Gum grafting is the soft tissue skill many GPs skip on the way to implants. Periodontist Dr. Fadi Hasan explains why it should come first.In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Dr. Fadi Hasan, a board-certified periodontist at Sculpt Center for Implants & Periodontics and one half of The…
Digital smile design founder Dr. Christian Coachman explains why the workflow should come before the technology, and what that means for 3D printing.This episode includes a sponsored message from SprintRay.In this interview, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny talks with Dr. Christian Coachman, the dentist and dental technician who founded Digital Smile Design (DSD). Christian walks through the…
Dental 3D printing went from niche to normal in a decade, and SprintRay led much of it. Co-founder Hossein Bassir on what actually changed.In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Hossein Bassir, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of SprintRay, for a wide conversation on where dental 3D printing has…
The Chicago Midwinter Meeting president on why dental expos are getting harder and how AI and 3D printing are reshaping dentistry. In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Dr Phil Schefke, President of the Chicago Dental Society, for a candid conversation about where the dental industry and its biggest…
Cosmetic dentistry has changed more in the last decade than in the twenty years before it, and Dr. Jameel Gardee has lived every step. In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Dr. Jameel Gardee, cosmetic dentist and Smile Design educator at Avant Garde in the UK. Jameel trained under…
Cosmetic dentistry case acceptance is a communication problem, not a sales problem, and Dr. Brian Harris breaks down exactly how he closes cases.In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Dr. Brian Harris, a Phoenix-based cosmetic dentist with more than 300,000 Instagram followers and 22 years spent placing porcelain veneers….
Shining 3D just launched the Ceramix-Nano, a chairside pod printer the size of a Nespresso machine that aims to print permanent resin crowns in minutes. In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Da Chen, R&D manager of the 3D printing division at Shining 3D, to talk through how it…
Dental 3D printing is growing fast, but only 15% of dental practices are actually using it. Formlabs Dental’s Georgio Haddad joins Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny to share the data behind what dentists are really printing, where the technology still falls short, and what it will take for chairside 3D printing to go mainstream. Georgio has spent…
Chairside 3D printing adoption is stuck. Pac-Dent’s Ayush Bagla explains why CAD is the bottleneck, and what his team is doing about it. In this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny sits down with Ayush Bagla, Managing Director at Pac-Dent and former CEO of Ackuretta, to unpack the real numbers behind 3D printing…
Bite-Finder CEO Björn Zäuner joins Dr. Ahmad to reveal what the data from millions of scans actually shows — and the number is worse than most dentists want to admit. Björn built Bite-Finder from the inside out. Starting with his family’s dental lab, he identified that occlusion, shade, and contacts were the three leading causes…