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manent restorations as well ( which I believe is already initiated by a and by helping dentists do so we not only add to their
few companies). Summarizing on this, I firmly believe it will make growth but ours as well. The Illusion training and Education centre
things easy for both the dentists and the dental labs. was established in April 2016 in the heart of Mumbai. It’s a
state-of-the-art dental training centre with a projection area and 25
4. You had mentioned in one of your earlier interviews that the path member seating capacity, 3 operatories, simulation area for hands-
to clear aligners in this country has not been very clear; could you on training with phantom heads and delivery units. It’s an open
elaborate on this and tell us how Illusion aligners have helped platform for all dentists, providing them an opportunity to come
bridge the gap? together and learn by conducting numerous lectures, courses, and
workshops.
Our analysis of the Indian aligner market showed that a lot of den-
tists do not suggest the aligner treatment option as it requires them 6. What would you like to see in terms of the evolution of the
to go through complex payment packages with a 100% fee paid dental lab industry in this country?
upfront.
We as a lab have been serving dentists for over 31 years and along Presently, there are a few challenges in the Indian dental lab
with this credibility our thought process was to introduce aligners industry where the labs built are fragmented and need a more sys-
using state-of-the-art materials and technology. Our “Pay per align- tematic and process driven approach. Going forward
er module” has been a huge success and does away with choosing towards evolution we should consider the need to build large cor-
complex packages. Another bottleneck was the virtual set up which porate labs with the ISO standard as per the medical device industry
again required dentists to pay a certain fee. We started with the con- norms. The industry has to bring in a holistic change to
cept of complementary virtual setups as we strongly believe both all aspects involved in a dental lab which includes the lab
dentists and patients deserve to see the outcome before they go in for infrastructure, the processes involved in manufacturing, the restora-
the treatment tion, materials and technology used, qualification of the
Dental technicians, leading Product Delivery and customer
5. Please tell us about the initiatives that Illusion Dental has taken in service. All aspects should portray world class standards which will
terms of training and education? then help the Indian dental labs also gain the recognition they
deserve across the globe.
Training and education to improve skills is a core part of our beliefs

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