The Medical Management of the Kayama Dent Network

The approach

Oral rehabilitation is first of all listening: what really bothers you, what you want to eat, how you want to look. Then planning — on a 3D scan, on a computer, from the result backwards — and only then execution. The network’s medical management sees implant surgery and restoration as two professions, and prefers each to be in the hands of someone who does it day in, day out — the implant surgeon for the implants, the restorative dentist for the teeth built on them — on one condition: that they plan together. In the network the two work on the same CT and the same digital plan, and the restoration is designed before surgery; the person placing the implant knows exactly which tooth will sit on it, not because it is the same pair of hands but because the tooth was designed first. The network’s medical management supervises the plan and follows the complex cases. One protocol, one file, one responsibility — the network’s. And for the patient, one contact person.

What the network focuses on

The network

Kayama Dent is a network of seven oral-rehabilitation clinics — Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Saba, Netanya, Haifa and Beer Sheva. The protocol, the equipment, the treatment stages and the check-up schedule are identical at every clinic; complex cases are planned at the network planning centre and followed by the medical management. Appointments are longer than usual — a first consultation is about 45 minutes — because the explanation is part of the treatment.