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Align Technology Introduces New Vivera Retainer Doctor Enabled Direct Ship to Patient Feature in Its Doctor Subscription Program
The Vivera Retainer Subscription Direct Ship to Patient feature helps doctors support their patients in maintaining their new smiles. Doctors can elect to
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nThe Vivera Retainer Subscription Direct Ship to Patient feature helps doctors support their patients in maintaining their new smiles. Doctors can elect to have retainers shipped directly to their patients reducing the need to store retainers at their practices.\n\n\n\nThe Direct Ship feature creates a more patient friendly workflow for doctors to offer retainers to their patients and reduces the need for patients to make time consuming unnecessary trips to their doctor’s office to pick up their repeat Vivera retainer orders.\n\n\n\nThe Vivera™ Retainer Subscription (VRS) provides a simple and scalable way for doctors to offer ongoing retainers to their patients and preserve their orthodontic treatment results. The Align™ Doctor Subscription Program (DSP) provides doctors with the ability to address patient demand for limited orthodontic treatment for simple “touch up” cases and long-term orthodontic retention.\n\n\n\nVRS is available to doctors participating in DSP.\n\n\n\n LAS VEGAS & SAN JOSE, Calif. & TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAlign Technology, Inc. (“Align”) (Nasdaq: ALGN), a leading global medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign® System of clear aligners, iTero™ intraoral scanners, and exocad™ CAD/CAM software for digital orthodontics and restorative dentistry, today introduced a new doctor enabled direct ship to patient feature in its Vivera™ Retainer Subscription (VRS) platform that allows doctors to have subsequent retainers sent directly to their patients in order to meet their ongoing long-term retention needs. The VRS platform is part of Align’s broader Doctor Subscription Program (DSP) introduced to doctors in the United States and Canada in 2021.\n\n\n“Our new subscription model supports the increasing digitalization of dentistry and orthodontics,” said Simon Beard, Align executive vice president and general manager Americas and EMEA. “As many of us, doctors and their patients have grown to expect the ease and convenience of technology enabled services and solutions. With the introduction of the VRS direct patient ship feature, we are providing doctors with new ways to support their patients, enhance treatment experience, and build their practices.”\n\n\nWith the direct ship to patient feature, doctors can arrange to have subsequent retainers sent to their patients dire...