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By Robert Selleck, today Staff n If you’re feeling like the complete digitization of dental practices is as elusive as the paperless office, then it’s worth a visit to booth No. 5428, where you can see just how close things are to full digitalization. Plan- meca essentially has a full dental practice on display, with all of the equipment as well as the office- and clinical-management systems linked across a common software platform: Planmeca Romexis. “I like to call it ‘practice Plan- meca,’” said Planmeca Director of Marketing Dmitry Edelchik. “What we’re doing with software is amaz- ing. … But we’re a hardware company as much as we are a software com- pany.” Andwithmorethan200,000world- wide users of Planmeca Romexis soft- ware, that’s saying a lot. The unique business model ena- bles the company to offer dental professionals a complete line of den- tistry’s most essential and advanced tools and other hardware all linked via clinical-management software. The integration enables dental pro- fessionals to skip the frustration that comeswithdealingwithmultiplesys- tems throughout a practice or even within a single operatory. When your dental chair, intraoral scanner, milling unit and X-ray system speak the same language, powerful efficiencies are achieved — not just in the operatory but across the entire scope of the busi- ness. “It’soneofakind,”saidTetsuyaShi- mabuku, Planmeca core equipment product manager. “It’s really what ties all of these high-technology products together. Looking at your equipment becomes a very different experience.” Shimabuku demonstrated the point in the exhibit hall on Sunday with the Planmeca Romexis clinical- management module. He pulled up the floor-plan view on the monitor on the central console in the booth’s operatory. The floor plan can be customized based on what equipment a practice has and where it’s located. That means that with a click on the picture representing a particular machine or tool, you’re able to see how much it’s being used, if and where it’s being used and when scheduled cleanings or other maintenance is due. Betteryet,ifyou’renotcheckingon things yourself, email prompts trig- geredbythesystem’sownmonitoring will automatically notify you when maintenance is due based on hours of use or other parameters. “It’s opening the door to a whole new way of practicing dentistry,” Shimabuku said of the software’s direct integration with virtually all of a practice’s hardware components — and practices’ resulting ability to base critical business decisions on reliable, timely and easy to under- stand data. exhibitors 14 Greater New York Dental Meeting — Nov. 29, 2016 With hardware and software design directly linked, Planmeca practices can achieve full digitalization Ad 3 Tetsuya Shimabuku, Planmeca core equipment product manager, demonstrates the customizable floor-plan view in the Planmeca Romexis clinical- management module. (Photo/ Robert Selleck, today Staff) Here in New York To learn more about the Planmeca Romexissoftwareplatform,visitbooth No. 5428.