The feel-good factor: How product quality can affect the well-being of your patients

Day in, day out you put all your commitment and professional expertise into helping your patients maintain their dental and oral health throughout their lifetimes so that they can enjoy well-being and a high quality of life. As a dentist, you are a service provider and it is in your interest that your patients feel at ease in your practice and are happy with the treatment and the functional and esthetic results you give them. This is one of the most effective ways to ensure the loyalty of patients and safeguard the success of a dental practice in the long term.

In your day-to-day work, you will be in touch with many factors that affect patient satisfaction. Product quality plays an essential part in the feel-good aspect of your dental practice. High-grade, clinically proven materials lead to lasting results and will put a beautiful smile on your patients’ face that will delight them for many years to come. Keep in mind that a beautiful smile has a beneficial effect not only on mental health, but also on the immune system and is hence a real booster for the general well-being of your patients.

The three most important “feel-good factors”

1. Reliability
2. Trust
3. Confidence
   
   

1. Reliability

High-quality, durable products that are optimally matched to one another help you establish efficient procedures in your practice and provide a high standard of care to your patients. The IPS e.max CAD ceramic material is the first choice for many dentists who seek to provide their patients with long-lasting reliable restorations – more than 15 years of clinical evidence and millions of restorations placed[1] attest to the quality of this material. Highly esthetic and strong, the glass-ceramic results in restorations that ensure lasting dental health for your patients. No wonder the material has been a firm favourite among dentists and patients for over a decade.

2. Trust

Just as your patients trust you to take care of their teeth, you want to be able to trust the materials you use to provide that care. The hallmarks of trustworthy materials are durability and reliability, borne out by scientific evidence. After all, trust is the foundation on which good relationships are built. Your patients will trust you if you are confident that you treat them to the best of your ability, using the best possible materials. If you want to know how reliable a material is, look at its survival rate. IPS e.max CAD restorations are known to offer excellent, highly esthetic results in many clinical situations and impress with an outstanding survival rate of 97.2 percent over a 10-year period[2]. This is why thousands of dentists around the world place their trust in the legendary blue block.

[[1] Based on international sales figures.
[2] The survival rate of monolithic IPS e.max CAD posterior crowns was evaluated using the Kaplan Meier method. The failure rate refers to technical failures such as fractures and chipping, R&D Ivoclar, Schaan.

3. Confidence

The requirements placed on dental products keep increasing, just as patients place ever higher expectations on you as their dentist. Trust is one thing, confidence another. Because confidence gives you a good feeling that you can achieve the very best for your patients. IPS e.max restorations come with a ten-year guarantee that provides you with a high degree of confidence – a guarantee that is as convincing as the material itself. So, trust builds confidence. It creates the foundation on which you can build positive patient experiences that will lead to satisfied patients and help ensure the success of your practice in the long term.

You want to incorporate these “feel-good factors” into your day-to-day work?

You do not want to do things by half measures when it comes to the quality, durability and esthetic appearance of your dental restorations?

And you do not want to use anything but high-quality, clinically proven materials?

Then you will want to find out about IPS e.max CAD.