Christien Kopas

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Questions to ask before embracing digital dentistry
Dentists are inundated with information about new technologies, writes digital dentistry expert Christien Kopas. Should you embrace this technology? She offers a list of questions to ask yourself about the technology and how you will use it in your practice to help clarify the decision-making process.
March 18, 2019
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