GLIDEWELL DENTAL

176 experience more pleasant for the patient and more efficient for the practitioner . By compressing years of lab expertise into a small form factor , glidewell . io has attracted high demand since it came on the market in March 2018 – not surprising when the clinician ’ s investment can be recouped within a year . “ Because of our vertical integration we ’ ve been able to develop this technology at a system level , at a much lower price . To allow this , we developed our all-in cloud strategy together with Amazon Web Services about five years ago , when we began developing our CAD / CAM software on their cloud and this allows us to very easily extend the benefits into the dentist ’ s office .”

And yet the synergy between clinician and lab goes much further than this . “ glidewell . io is an ecosystem that provides the solution in the dentist ’ s office but also networks seamlessly with our laboratory ,” he explains . “ So , for the things that they can ’ t do chairside , they can communicate with us much more easily . We have provided this platform as an extension of the laboratory , as if it were another member of their treatment team . We have made

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