In November of this year, a friend, colleague and collaborator, Vincent Fehmer, will come to provide a masterclass at The Campbell Academy for the 2nd year in a row.
This year, Vincent will attend on his own, and he is undoubtedly one of the most famous, most charismatic and most approachable dental technicians on the planet.
Vincent is way more than just a ‘dental technician’. He's a visionary, a researcher and an extraordinary educator, and what it will provide in terms of implant dentistry in conjunction with technical and prosthetic knowledge is beyond what you can expect from almost anyone.
What Vincent will present is a concept centred around the death of the technicians.
He will present us with the global figures related to the reduction in technicians around the world, and the fact that while the existing technicians become more and more valuable as they become more and more scarce, that does not help clinicians who are trying to find assistance with technology and technical knowledge.
The price of the technician increases, the lab work increases, and the price for the patient increases.
Vincent will present solutions to this using technology to reduce the cost of lab work, providing high-quality results, particularly in milled ceramics and in the use of standard developments for implant dentistry to provide extraordinary work.
It's an interesting concept as we consider the fact that in the United Kingdom, some reports suggest we have 50% fewer technicians than we had even before COVID. It's becoming a massive pinch point in the provision of high-quality dentists.
Put this together with the fact that many of the people who built implant dentistry into being in the United Kingdom (and in the wider field) were men and women who are entrepreneurs and visionaries in dentistry themselves.
They were able to create practices and services that provided hundreds of implants provided by themselves, year on year, decade on decade, and many of those have reached the age of retirement or beyond retirement.
The demographics around the world of implant dentistry from a clinical point of view and a technical are changing rapidly and out of sight.
The inability to adopt technological solutions (hardware and software) to increase your efficiency and effectiveness will undoubtedly slow down your ability to do the things that you want to do, to earn the money that you want to earn, to treat the patients that you want to treat.
This is only part of what Vincent will present, but it's a good discussion for all of us, something to understand as we future scope, the potential challenges that exist in the world moving forward.
Blog Post Number - 4315
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