The Clear Path: Mastering Aligner Therapy in DSOs with Dr. Christina Blacher & Angela Severance RDA
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Group Dentistry Now Show: The Voice of the DSO Industry
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What is the purpose of using education as a strategy rather than a one‑time event in DSOs?
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Hey everyone, welcome to the Group Dentistry Now Show. I'm Bill Newman, and as always, we appreciate you joining us. We uh are gonna talk about a topic that I think has been the focus of DSOs and group practices, for the past two or three years, everybody seems to have gone from a focus on acquisitional growth to organic growth and trying to figure out solutions uh to grow each individual practice organically. Easier said than done sometimes. But we're gonna really focus on clearliner therapy today and how You can use that to grow your practice, your group practices. uh and also um talk about some techniques and some challenges when it comes to really educating uh younger clinicians and and also Um, just challenges when we it comes to consistency and predictability, but we're gonna have fun with this.
I think there's a lot of opportunity and we're gonna talk to two experts. really understand the strategies that can really help you all out. So we've got a returning guest here. We have Angela Severance. It's great to have you back, Angela. She is training and education manager for DSOs at IvaClar. And for the first time ever, and she might not be on not she might be familiar to you, especially if you're on Instagram. Um apparently she is the Queen of Invisalign on Instagram. You can tell I'm not an Instagram person, but you have twenty four thousand followers, which is which is crazy. And uh we have Doctor Christina Blocker on. She's the founder of Christina Blocker Consulting. Practicing clinician at Ideal Dental and Orthodonics in Frisco, Texas.
And they're part of dental work. So it's great to have you on uh for the first time, Christina.
Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Um yes, I I I kind of have like five jobs besides being a practicing clinician. Um I practice in decadental group with Ideal Dental one day a week. I also am in still in private practice one day a week. So I've I see both sides, which is really interesting. And then I travel around the world teaching dentists how to do a misline. I'm on a misaligned global faculty. faculty, that's where my passion comes in. I love teaching. I love helping other doctors grow. I do online support. I do um I set up cases for doctors specifically for a misline and That's you know, and then I'm a mom. I'm a mom of two. I have a two year old and an eight month old. And so I I'm pretty busy every single day, but I love it.
It keeps me going.
Well, so t maybe you should we we should step back a little bit. You're doing a lot. Like you said, you have five jobs. We can only fit one of them under your title. So um in the share notes we're gonna include everything else. But uh What got you into the really the education and the training side of dentistry? So it sounds like You graduated dental school and started out as a clinician, right? And then what how all of a sudden did you kind of veer off and hey, I wanna actually educate and get people excited about uh clear aligners?
Yeah, so it's funny because so many people ask me, Oh, where did you do your speaker training? And I've never actually had professional training when it comes to being a a teacher, speaker, motivational leader, whatever. I was just a normal dentist. I'm a I'm a normal general dentist. I was practicing full time, doing dentistry, and then I found a love for me specifically. I love Invisalign. And so I just wanted to do more and More and more of it. So I became really successful with it. And then they actually approached me and said, Hey, what are you doing differently that than everybody else? Would you share your story? And so that led me into teaching, where I was just sharing what I genuinely did in my practice and how I was able to grow.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of using education as a strategy rather than a one‑time event in DSOs?
0:02–5:09
2
How did Dr. Christina Blacher transition from clinical practice to becoming a clear‑aligner educator?
5:09–11:37
3
Why is a replicable, standardized treatment‑planning system essential for multi‑location clear‑aligner therapy?
11:37–17:50
4
What role does Ivoclar’s digital workflow and material selection play in improving predictability and consistency?
17:50–24:22
5
How can DSOs implement treatment‑planning services to achieve consistent case outcomes across clinicians?
24:22–30:49
6
What are the key benefits of Ivoclar’s Learning Pathways and on‑demand CE for group practices?
30:49–37:24
7
How do specific Ivoclar materials (e.g., Tetric Evo Flow, Viva Pen) enhance clear‑aligner case efficiency and attachment stability?
37:24–44:14
8
What does the future look like for general dentists and DSOs adopting clear‑aligner therapy as a core service?
44:14–49:39
Speakers
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