It almost seems like the stars were aligned for Mina Narula and CEREC Ortho. If not the stars, the teeth definitely were.

Narula, DDS, has always loved orthodontics. She loved it when she practiced as an orthodontist in her native country, India. She loved it when she emigrated to Boston, and worked as an assistant in an ortho office for three years. And she loved it throughout the process of becoming an orthodontist, again, in the U.S. As Narula puts it: “I was in heaven if I was doing ortho.”

After graduating from Tufts University and a fellowship at Harvard University, Narula traded the East Coast for the West, buying a practice in California. Today, she owns the Center for Orthodontics in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and is one of only 400 active members worldwide in the prestigious Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists.

Naturally, her love of orthodontics has always accompanied a love of orthodontic technology advancements. CEREC Ortho certainly qualifies. The ortho capabilities of CEREC are still new, but the technology has been a leader in the dental industry for more than 30 years. Narula brought CEREC into her practice last May after learning about its ortho capabilities at the American Association of Orthodontists’ 2015 Annual Session.

Though the ortho functionality is new, Narula said, the refined technology of CEREC made it an easy addition to her practice. “It’s very user-friendly, and the learning curve is simple,” she said. “We have six team members that all mastered it in three months. It was instantly a strength of my practice.”