The above plus amount of training.

This premier status is a bunch of crap.
Anyone, general dentist or orthodontist who submits the highest number
of cases to invisalign in a month will get premier status.
It is obvious that mostly orthodontist will be in that list since ortho
is all they do all day. A general dentist who may have a stong
background in ortho but chooses to do all aspects of dentistry because
he/she likes all aspects of dentistry has no hope to meet that premier
status. Even if out of all ortho cases this doctor does he uses
invisalign 100%. An orthodontist can get this status by only doing 20%
of all his ortho cases with invisalign. Invisalign's system is not very
fear and I would not be surprised if they get another class action law
suit on this. Right now Invisalign is not doing so well and i predict
the stock prices will come down very quickly because of their
practices.
Invisalign has a new competitor a company that was recently created by
THE inventor of Invisalign who used to be the CEO and left the company.
The new competitor (ORTHOCLEAR) is much better than Invisalign and much
cheaper.
In fact this new company took over Invisalign's old plants in Pakistan
and rehired all the old people that used to work for invisalign.
As you may know after Sept 11 Invisalign closed the plant in Pakistan
and relocated to Costa Rica. I have been doing Invisalign for 3 years
now I was one of the first GP's to get certified in Southern California
and unlike the new dr's getting CERT1 done which is minor tooth
movements, I had the original full course given to the orthodontists.
Invisalign decided to split the full course into 2 separate courses so
they can make extra $$$ on a second class.
ORTHOCLEAR the second generation on clear removable aligners is going
to kick Invisalign's butt. Invisalign is in a panic right now because
they do not have a new product to offer. I had a great idea about 1.5
years ago and sent a letter to Tom Prescott to call me which would have
put Invisalign on the map but he never returned my call. Oh well too
bad.
I also told this to the marketing guy for invisalign who was interested
in my idea but he did not call me either. Oh well too bad again.
Interesting thing about this is Invisalign can not even sue orthoclear
because it went infront of the judge who threw out 5 of the 6 charges
of pattent infringement and told all parties that since Orthoclear's
owner was the original inventor, he can sue invisalign back for these 5
charges. This inventor worked on the pattents of invisalign and knew
all the loop holes to bring a competitor to invisalign which refused to
do things different and grow like it should have. When this new company
goes IPO it is going to make a killing.
I am certified in both ORTHOCLEAR and INVISALIGN.
I have to say ORTHOCLEAR is so much better for everyone.
And the people who worked on the virtual treatments in pakistan were
orthodontists during invisalign's early days. these setups were much
more accurate to real life. Now invisalign has graffic designers in
costa rica doing something they know nothing about. Since Orthoclear
gave these people their jobs back they have a great team.

No, this means that when a Head of State needs ortho, they must
consult one of these guys ......

Joel