FAQ

As a starting point, check out how we explain GT FLEX ® GREEN to patients. It’s based on thousands of interactions with patients who already reached out directly to us and it’s structured to provide a succinct response to the same key points of concern that almost everyone raises.

You can start with our “Find a Dentist” feature. It lets you search our current list of GT Smiles providers by doctor name, practice name, city, or zip code.

GT Smiles is new, and word is spreading fast. So if you can’t find an existing GT Smiles provider near you, please consider telling your current dentist about us. We’ll be happy to speak with them and see if they’d like to become part of the GT Smiles family.

GT Smiles integrates with dental providers to help them offer GT Smiles products through their practices. But we don’t provide custom devices like retainers, aligners, and night guards directly to patients.

The key word here is “custom”. If a device is designed to have a custom fit for one person’s mouth, you need to start with an accurate three-dimensional snapshot of that person’s teeth. The three ways to get that snapshot are:

1. Physical impressions taken at home by patient (least accurate/consistent)
2. Physical impressions taken by a dental professional (more accurate/consistent, but still problematic)
3. Intraoral scans taken by a dental professional (most accurate/consistent)

Because accuracy/consistency is critical to help ensure that the finished device has a comfortable fit, stays in place, and functions well, we currently use only the more accurate options for making any custom device from GT Smiles: physical impressions or intraoral scans taken by dental professionals.

We’re working on some non-custom devices (devices that don’t need to be custom-fitted to individual mouths), which we may offer directly as well as through practices when ready. But for GT Smiles custom devices, the best current route is through dental professionals.

So if you’re interested in getting a GT Smiles device, the first step is to find a GT Smiles dentist.

GT FLEX ® GREEN is currently available in the form of finished devices (i.e., as a dental laboratory service), not as a raw material for in-house production.

It’s possible that GT FLEX ® GREEN may become available as a raw material in the future, but several factors make it better suited for centralized/specialized production, including:

• Certain nuances in the thermoforming process when using GT FLEX ® GREEN vs. traditional plastic materials
• For retainers, night guards, oral appliances, and the like, the fact that the products are designed to be delivered on a subscription basis. As part of its services, GT Smiles handles all of the scheduling and production/transaction logistics of subscription delivery for you.
• For aligners, the fact that GT FLEX ® GREEN is developed for use as part of an integrated system, including a specific approach to treatment planning and specific aligner manufacturing protocols.

The GT Smiles platform is designed to give you a single, unified system for managing all of the GT FLEX ® GREEN product offerings in one.

Click here to learn more about the clinical and practice benefits of the GT Smiles platform.

GT Smiles products are currently available in the U.S.

We have partnerships already in place and additional discussions underway for extending availability to other regions around the world – ASAP.

If you’re a patient or dentist outside the U.S. – or a company interested in partnering with us to bring GT Smiles to your country – please contact us.