Airway Design & Email Planner

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We're hiring an Airway Design & Email Planner on behalf of our partner, a fast-growing, high-performance dental laboratory serving leading dental and orthodontic practices across the U.S.

Our client is a dental laboratory that designs and manufactures TAD supported orthodontic appliances, including MARPE (miniscrew assisted rapid palatal expansion) and other airway focused cases. The Airway Design & Email Planner is responsible for turning a doctor's case request into a complete, manufacturable airway appliance design, from initial CBCT and scan review through TAD (miniscrew) planning, appliance and band design, and final doctor approval.

Working full time onsite and against a live case queue, this role consults directly with doctors by email on MARPE (miniscrew assisted rapid palatal expansion) cases and other TAD supported airway appliances, combining precise CAD based measurement with real clinical judgment on every case.

The Airway Design & Email Planner plays a key role in representing the dental lab's clinical and technical standards, providing accurate, well documented case work and clear doctor communication that reinforces the Company's commitment to Quality, Innovation, Consistency, Dependability, and Communication.

• Pull each doctor's case notes from the lab's case management system and translate them into a complete, correctly labeled design specification.
• Check case history for standing doctor preferences, such as band or arm style, not restated in the new order.
• Flag any requested appliance parts or TAD types outside what the lab supplies in house.

• Set up each case in 3
  
  Shape and import the patient's CBCT and intraoral scans.
• Crop oversized CBCT files and align the scans to the patient's midline before planning begins.
• Confirm clean scan alignment, redoing the midline or alignment steps if the result is not accurate.

• Digitally place and angle each TAD (miniscrew), keeping safe distances from tooth roots, nerves, and tissue.
• Measure each TAD's length and bi cortical status, adjusting size and position as needed.
• Confirm symmetrical, well anchored placement across the full set of TADs in each case.

• Generate each case's TAD guide once planning is finalized.
• Add the supporting CBCT screenshots, angle drawings, and layout pages the doctor will use to place each TAD.

• Draw the expansion screw, bands, and attachments to the doctor's exact order.
• Present screw angle options when the doctor's order does not specify a preference.

• Send each case out for doctor approval using the standing approval email process.
• Consult directly with doctors on case questions, options, and requested revisions.
• Update the case management system and billing records at every stage of the case.

• Strong 3D spatial reasoning and precise, engineering style measurement skills.
• Working knowledge of CAD software, or strong aptitude for learning a purpose built dental planning platform to a professional standard.
• Ability to read and interpret unstructured clinical case notes and translate them into a complete, accurate design specification.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to consult directly with doctors on case questions and revisions.
• High attention to detail and comfort with millimeter level precision work.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a queue of concurrent cases…