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Essays on clinical decision-making, treatment consistency, and system-level dentistry. Editorial content — no product promotion.

This page exists to document ideas and patterns seen in real clinics — especially where modern tools improve output quality but expose deeper decision-structure issues upstream.

If you’re an operator, DSO leader, insurer, or clinician working on reducing variance and clinical risk, these essays are designed to be practical and readable.

AI treatment plans aren’t the bottleneck — decision consistency is

Plan generation is getting fast. The harder problem is upstream: inconsistent clinical decisions across cases, clinicians, and clinics.

2026-01-09

By Dr. Sami Savolainen

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