NADS Annual Meeting, Dinner and CE Program

▣Overview

1. Identify common daily clinical workflow barriers—such as time constraints, patient comprehension gaps, periodontal assessment demands, education needs, examination flow, documentation, and dismissal—and describe how digital systems can reduce friction during patient appointments.
2. Explain the ethical and clinical relevance of patient autonomy in dental care, including the dentist's responsibility to involve patients meaningfully in treatment decisions while protecting confidentiality and respecting patient values.
3. Describe how intraoral scanning, radiographs, intraoral images, CBCT, and cloud-based patient records can be combined to create a multidimensional “digital patient” for diagnosis, treatment planning, education, collaboration, insurance documentation, and follow-up.
4. Compare traditional impression and analog communication workflows with digital acquisition workflows, including how scanning and real-time visualization may improve patient experience, case presentation, efficiency, and interdisciplinary communication.
5. Discuss the role of cloud-based and related digital platforms in centralizing patient images, scans, radiographs, CBCT data, treatment plans, and shared communications across clinical and administrative team members.