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Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.

It’s your weekly mentoring session.

We live in a digital world, we communicate online, kids can use computers better than most adults and I don’t think I’ve used physical money in about a year. So, where do you think dentistry is going? I tend to agree with Dr Ahmad Al-Hassiny – it’s going digital and the time is now.

But where and how do you start? What if you’re an associate? Dr Ahmad is from the Institute of Digital Dentistry and he lives and breathes this frontier of Dentistry. If you’re in NZ, you can go to Wellington and do his live course. If not, his online academy will kick start your digital dentistry career. It’s not just pros and aligners, Digital Dentistry is the cutting edge of almost all facets of dentistry.

In fact, I had a scan of my teeth done, digitally set up and am just about to approve the orthodontic plan. In this podcast we speak with Dr Geoff Hall from OrthoEd for the final run down on my ClinCheck. Want to see what we’re talking about? Find it on Youtube or dentalheadstart.com/orthoed. Want to learn more? Get 10% off the entire range of Orthoed courses if you’re 5 years or less out – find the code on our site.

For now, let’s start this journey with what we all hate about physical impressions – it brings back some suppressed memories for me that’s for sure!

Dr Ahmad Al-Hassiny

Dr Ahmad Al–Hassiny is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Digital Dentistry (iDD), which is a leading and future focused online training academy, with a mission to ensure dentists globally have easy and affordable access to the best digital dentistry training possible.

Having graduated from the University of Otago with First Class Honours and being awarded many clinical and research prizes, Dr Ahmad has continued his pursuit of excellence in dentistry. He has seen first-hand through his own work how CAD/CAM and digital dentistry can positively change daily dental practice. He has carried out many aspects of complex digital dentistry including CAD/CAM full mouth rehabilitation and smile design.

Dr Ahmad is a global leader in digital dentistry and intraoral scanners, carrying out lectures fo