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opinion 25th EAO Annual Scientific Meeting 5 Keep improving your implant treatments by going digital. Take advantage of the TRIOS® intraoral scanner and Implant Studio® software to enhance patient experience, reduce chair-time, unlock the widest range of treatment opportunities and achieve predictable and esthetic results. KEEP IMPROVING GIVE patients a great treatment experience GET more open options GROW your practice Implant Studio® must be purchased before December 31, 2016 to be eligible for free subscription GET1YEAR FREE SUBSCRIPTION OF IMPLANT STUDIO® FIND OUT MORE AT BOOTH #G07 www.3Shape.com/implantology DIGITAL IMPLANTOLOGY with Implant Studio® and TRIOS® AD I admit that I love conventions. We meet old friends there, discover a for- eign city and generally have a good time. We also learn and discover small details and new facets about clinical issues we had not thought of previously, but that have the poten- tial to improve the way we practise and allow us to better enjoy the end-results we strive for in treating our patients. The other day, a speaker re- marked that, through all the new changes and developments we expe- rience in our profession, half of the things we do today we did differently only five years before. What a provoc- ative idea it was! His assertion, how- ever, was not wrong. I actually do very little of the things I learnt in dental school 40 years ago. The essence of that idea is that happiness lies in all the challenges and discoveries we encounter and overcome on a daily basis. In my humble opinion, our professional lives closely resemble a moving train: we can either choose to be on it and enjoy the passing landscape, which changes constantly, or stand of the side of the track watching the train move away. For me, a changing land- scape has always been more attrac- tive. Reading the biographies of our clinical gurus, it is always wonderful to see that they have remained pas- sionate about their profession until old age regardless of their other, pri- vate interests. At conventions, we regard out- standing lectures the same way as we appreciate an excellent movie. The knowledge and clinical results we ob- tain through the presenters’ intelli- gence, innovation and courage are of- ten impressive. This is where our work starts. Having returned to our practices, we need to optimise our newly obtained knowledge for the benefit of our patients and in order to compete with our ever-more compe- tent colleagues. We must be able to recognise the best of what we have learnt and integrate it into our profes- sional lives. Our personal experience is essen- tial to understanding the implications of those messages and to overcoming our own biases, which are often diffi- cult to identify. There is the risk of a speaker presenting an average result Optimising clinical excellence By Dr Jean-Nicolas Hasson, France „…happiness lies in all the challenges and discoveries we encounter and overcome on a daily basis.” © maziarz/Shutterstock.com