Why is mentoring so important?

Mentoring is key to giving GPs the confidence to get started and successfully continue placing implants. Mentoring facilitates the transfer of knowledge. It enables one-on-one supervision by an experienced implantologist who provides practice-based mentoring for the treatment of your first implant patient cases.

The mentor will provide support with patient selection, treatment planning, implant surgery, and the related restorative work in the clinical environment.

Post-surgery the mentor will provide expert assessment and feedback to help you gain confidence to acquire suitable implant patients, increase treatment acceptance in your practice and grow your implant volume moving forward.

Mentoring gives you peace of mind.

Straumann is committed to enabling GPs to have the confidence to get started in placing dental implants successfully. To achieve this, we believe that support from a personal mentor is critical to ensure that dental professionals feel enabled and confident to begin and continue to place implants successfully. Therefore, mentoring is a key pillar of the Smart solution.

At Straumann we have developed Smart, a holistic solution that has been specifically developed to enable dental GPs to successfully start and continue placing or restoring dental implants. What makes Straumann® Smart so unique is the synergy that the six key elements deliver. Smart provides an optimal blend of clinical education, hands-on product training and e-learning with one-to-one supervision by an experienced mentor. Smart helps dental GPs gain hands-on experience, refresh their knowledge and improve their skills to instill confidence to successfully get established in the world of implant dentistry.

The Smart mentor program

One-on-one supervision by an experienced implantologist is crucial to build confidence and provide GPs peace of mind and support when treating their first patient cases. Like a diver’s buddy who is with you every step of the way when you take the plunge. Support from a personal mentor ensures that dental professionals feel enabled and confident enough to begin and continue to place dental implants successfully. That’s why we see mentoring is a key pillar of the Smart solution.

The Smart mentor program complements self-study and classroom training by delivering consistent high-quality clinical training according to the Straumann® Smart concept and content. The Smart training content was developed in collaboration with renowned clinicians from the University of Zurich.

The mentor provides guidance so that you can gain hands-on practical experience during surgery with in-house clinical training and live-surgery observation and assistance.

The mentor can also provide guidance on appropriate case selection and problem solving. And they can share their experience with regard to business aspects to help you grow your business by gaining referrals.

“The Straumann® Smart program gave me the confidence to offer implant treatments to my patients. It helped me a lot to have an experienced expert by my side who supported me when I treated my first patient cases.”

In conclusion, the Straumann® Smart mentoring program is a holistic solution for dentists who have completed their classroom training and want to gain hand-on experience with the support of an expert. One-to-one supervision from a personal mentor is critical to ensure that dental professionals feel enabled and confident to begin and continue to place implants successfully. Mentoring is a key pillar of the Smart solution. Like a diver’s buddy your mentor will be with you every step of the way when you take the plunge.