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Carrie Webber:

Welcome to the next episode of the Jameson Files. I'm Carrie Webber and I'm your host. And I'm so glad to have you back with us for another informational, exciting, and what I think is going to be a very fun episode. I'm really thrilled to have a good friend as our guests that I'll introduce in just a moment, but I do want to encourage all of you that support the Jameson Files community to continue to bring guests and resources and topics that are most important to you. So I want to encourage you to reach out to us here at Jameson and give us your requests and any guests that you want to see in the future. Any topics you want us to cover and tackle for you and with you. That's what we want to be here for.

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Digital Dentistry with Dr. Chad Duplantis

So today we're talking digital dentistry and I'm really excited to have my friend, Dr. Chad Duplantis of Fort Worth, Texas, joining us today to talk about this and talk about his journey and what successes he has experienced over time, and perhaps some of the lessons he's learned. So Chad, thank you so much for being with me today.

Dr. Chad Duplantis:

I'm so glad to be here, and you know what? I gotta tell you a story. I'm so glad that we finally got this worked out because I'm sitting here in a closet and I'm watching live on Facebook. And you know, we’re having some technical difficulties and I'm watching you on Facebook and I'm getting this delay. But now all of a sudden it worked out, and I can see you, and we're both actually moving at the same time now on my screen. And so I think the technological difficulties have gone beyond us. So we're good.

Carrie Webber:

See technology, technology. It's a part of our world these days. I mean, we just got to live with it and go with it. Right?

Dr. Chad Duplantis:

Exactly. And I usually don't wear this silly headset.

Carrie Webber:

You look so serious. I mean, you look legit, like, you've got the headset, you've got all the things. So the backstory on Dr Duplantis and how we know each other—we've known each other for several years now through times when we were speaking on the same courses. A lot of opportunities have come your way in the last several years as a speaker, as a key opinion leader, as an instructor. And I've had the privilege of seeing you speak and spending time with you out in the world and watching you teach and seeing what value you're bringing to the dental community. A lot of what you speak on and teach on is digital dentistry. And I'm curious to learn a little bit of your backstory about your journey in dentistry. What led you to incorporate so much digital dentistry, the technology that you have in your practice? What is it that you find led you to make those decisions for how you practice? And how do you go from making that decision to being the teacher and leader in those topics that you are today?

Dr. Duplantis’ Backstory

Dr. Chad Duplantis:

Yeah. So digital dentistry for me goes back to about 2004. I graduated from dental school in 1999. And at that point in time, you know, same-day dentistry was really becoming a hot topic. It was fun. It was a way to possibly eliminate a lab bill, and you know, I learned a lot because in 2004 we incorporated our first piece of digital technology in the office, which was a scanner and a mill combined. But it was an ultimate failure.