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The Cutting Edge By investing heavily in technology, Edge Dental provides its patient base with quality – and convenient – dental care. : By Graham Garrison
Being able to think outside the box is important, but not easy, especially in dentistry. “Not everybody can do it,” said Dr. Marc Faber, CEO of Edge Dental Management. It takes a combination of risk, trial-and-error, and investment (i.e., time and money) to make unconventional ideas a success.
Look no further than Edge Dental’s commitment to same-day dentistry. By using the latest technology in-house, Edge Dental provides its patients services in one day that would usually take several. Edge Dental’s commitment to same-day dentistry was born out of challenging the status quo. Dr. Faber said he and his partners at Edge
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Dental – Drs. Joseph Faber and Jeffrey Kay – were frustrated with how much time it took from prep to completion for things like crowns. The way it was always done – taking an impression, sending it to an offsite lab, bringing the patient back in and hoping the crown fit, or needing 45 minutes to make adjustments – was too slow.
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So, they began to work on the problem. To reduce the time it took to complete procedures, Edge Dental started with scanning back in 2015. And it worked – crowns were coming back in three days. But after a few months, they started to wonder, “why don’t we just mill it ourselves?” Edge Dental started a process of trial and error among its offices and made a significant investment in the equipment to mill what they needed. The organization also spent time and money on continuing education courses for its doctors and staff to learn how to mill and develop the
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