How Carestream Dental is Driving the Momentum Forward for DSOs

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Emerging Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) navigate unique challenges the average practice doesn’t have to think about, like managing multiple locations, scaling operations and ensuring consistent patient care across offices. Carestream Dental understands these pain points and offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, from clinical imaging to practice management software, that tackle these issues head-on, empowering DSOs to grow efficiently while maintaining high standards of care.

Scalable, Seamless Technology Integration

Managing various technologies across multiple practices can be a logistical challenge, especially with how quickly DSOs are being asked to scale up. Carestream Dental’s portfolio of brands—Carestream Dental, Swissmeda and Sensei—addresses these problems through a technology suite that integrates seamlessly.

CS Imaging version 8, for example, serves as a central hub for all imaging data whether it’s 2D or 3D images, even STL models and JPGS. This provides a streamlined digital workflow that enhances diagnostic accuracy and collaboration across offices. For practice management, Sensei Enterprise, a cloud-based solution, provides real-time data analytics and centralized management so DSOs can forecast growth, manage resources and track profitability with ease. This is crucial for emerging DSOs as they expand and need solutions that maintain consistency in patient care, data management and operational workflows.

Enhancing Clinical Confidence through Standardization

Standardized technology that helps ensure uniform results can improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency. For instance, an imaging system that’s easy to position patients in and has an intuitive user interface means it can more reliably capture accurate images on the first try.

In a busy DSO with high patient volumes, consistent imaging not only leads to more confident diagnoses, but also cuts down on backlogs. Once these images are captured, Smop design software from Swissmeda, the clinical software and cloud services brand of Carestream Dental, makes it simple and intuitive to virtually design surgical guides. Surgical guides can simplify complex procedures and lead to more predictable implant outcomes. Perhaps the most important aspect of technology’s role in standardization is that patients receive the same level of service and care no matter which location they visit.

Improving Recruitment and Retention

While it’s important to emphasize standardization across locations, it’s just as crucial that an emerging DSO’s doctors feel empowered to make independent clinical decisions. Carestream Dental’s advanced, yet intuitive, equipment and software support clinicians in offering personalized care. For example, multi-modality imaging systems, like the Neo Edition of the CS 8200 3D, let doctors provide elevated care to patients. Its expanded FOVs lend itself to greater treatment capabilities and since its powered by CS Imaging 8, doctors can do more for their patients—like combine CBCT scans with leading intraoral scanners for prosthetic-driven implant planning or digitize their denture workflow.

And when it comes to retaining doctors and their teams, Carestream Dental improves the work environment with user-friendly enhancements to existing imaging systems, like the Evo and Neo editions of Carestream Dental’s already award-winning equipment. By reducing the time spent on training and navigating new systems and instead investing in making existing platforms even better, oral healthcare professionals can focus on what matters most—patient care. This can help DSOs improve job satisfaction, aiding both recruitment and retention efforts.

Navigating Competitive Pressures

With DSOs competing against private practices and other organizations, Carestream Dental’s innovative solutions give DSOs a competitive edge. By leveraging systems like Swissmeda’s Easy Digital Denture Solution (EDDS) for quick denture services, DSOs can offer specialized services. EDDS lets offices use their existing Carestream Dental CBCT systems to digitize denture records in under five minutes, freeing up valuable equipment and reducing bottlenecks. Streamlined, connected digital systems from Carestream Dental’s expansive portfolio let offices offer differentiated treatment, setting emerging DSOs apart from competitors to drive both patient acquisition and revenue growth.

Partnering for Success

Carestream Dental’s comprehensive suite of solutions—spanning clinical, operational and management needs—uniquely positions emerging DSOs for growth and success. By leveraging more than 125 years of experience and innovation, Carestream Dental offers DSOs the tools they need to deliver superior patient outcomes while driving business performance across all locations. Together, Carestream Dental’s brands—Carestream Dental, Swissmeda, and Sensei—empower DSOs to achieve clinical and financial excellence, fostering long-term growth and sustainability.