Spear Patient Education vs ADA Chairside Instructor Usage & Stats
Building on the foundation of our award-winning platform, Spear’s new Patient Education app has reimagined the chairside experience to provide a frictionless experience that enhances your ability to communicate what is possible to your patients. Achieve greater patient satisfaction, case acceptance and ultimately a patient base that values dentistry like you do.
- Expansive library of 220+ patient-tested HD videos
- Easy-to-use intuitive interface
- Email and SMS text for sharing videos and playlists with patients
- Intuitive drawing and annotation tool for marking up videos
- Customizable practice branding for emails and video landing pages
- Condition and Procedure videos for discussing treatment recommendations
- Home Care and Post-Operative videos for ongoing hygiene
- Easily-built playlists for pairing condition videos with recommended procedures
- Search, filter, sort, and favorite functions to quickly access the videos you need
- View and sharing history to track usage
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Medical
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Chairside Instructor - the best-selling dental case guide from the American Dental Association – is now available as an app for iPhone and iPad!
With over 250 full-color dental images and 25 animations, the ADA Chairside Instructor App is your all-in-one resource for visual patient education.
Content covers a wide range of prevention and treatment topics, including hygiene; anatomy; x-rays; periodontal disease; decay; crown, bridge, dentures, root canal, and other restorations; orthodontics; cosmetic treatment; TMJ; pathologies; and now cracked tooth and bruxism. Ideal for patient education or as a teaching tool for dental assistants.
Eight categories include Oral Anatomy, Prevention and Diagnosis, Gum Disease, Caries and Restorations, Tooth Replacement, Orthodontics, Cosmetic Options, and Other Oral Conditions.
Also includes effects of sugar on oral health; steps of filling a cavity; tooth erosion; gum recession; peri-implantitis; and tobacco use.
- Plus, these award-winning features:
- 51 new/revised full-color images
- Show 25 silent animations on your device.
- Draw on pictures and email them to patients.
- Access pictures across multiple devices from iCloud.
- Upload photos from your own Camera Roll
- Includes both English and Spanish text
- WiFi printing
- Add frequently viewed topics to your Favorites list for quick access or create your own
- Use in both portrait and landscape orientation for both iPhone and iPad
- Download on up to 6 devices for your dental team to use
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Medical
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Spear Patient Education VS. 
ADA Chairside InstructorJanuary 8, 2025