Tips for Custom Healing Abutments and Thriving in a Rural Area (with Dr. Chad Petersen)

Today on Everyday Oral Surgery, we sit down with Dr. Chad Petersen, an oral maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as he offers his perspective on thriving as an OMS in a more rural area. We discuss some strategies for getting more referrals, catering to patients who have to travel long distances, and coordinating implants with surgeons in different states. Dr. Petersen also makes the case for custom healing abutments and explains why he has chosen to incorporate them into his practice. If you’re looking to not only reduce patient visits but provide better outcomes and differentiate your surgical specialty practice, this is the episode for you! Dr. Petersen shares a number of valuable tips, tools, and techniques for creating custom healing abutments and offers some insight into what this process has taught him about tissue health, implant placement, and emergence profiles. Tune in today for all this and more!

Key Points From This Episode:

• A brief overview of Dr. Petersen's training and how his practice is set up.
• Challenges of practicing in a more rural city like Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
• Insight into what a typical day at Cheyenne OMS looks like.
• How Dr. Petersen has modified his practice to cater to patients that have to travel to see him.
• A look at who his typical referrals are and where they are located.
• How Dr. Petersen coordinates implants with referrals in different states.
• Why he has chosen to incorporate custom healing abutments.
• The tools and techniques Dr. Petersen uses to create custom healing abutments.
• What he has learned from some of the mistakes he made initially.
• Tips for making the custom healing abutment better mimic the final crown.
• How Dr. Petersen uses the Cervico kit to create custom abutments.
• Some of the benefits of this customized technique down the line.
• Recommended reads, the perks of fixing cars, Dr. Petersen’s preferred extraction tool, and more in our rapid-fire segment!
• The trusting relationships that Dr. Petersen has developed with his patients.
• An encouraging quote to live by to close the episode: what if it all works out?

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Cheyenne OMS — https://www.cheyenneoms.com/

Dr. Chad Petersen Email — petersen.chad@gmail.com

Cervico by VPI — https://www.vpicervico.com/

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