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From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Phone Wars

July 30, 2010

I am looking to upgrade my phone and am giving serious thought to an Android. The other option maybe a Palm Pre. The following is from Lorne Lavine.
There’s little doubt that the most popular phone I see in use by dentists is the iPhone. However, many are not fans as it’s proprietary and tied to [...]

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Speeding Up Diagnosis of Infectious Disease

July 30, 2010

The remarkable new lab test described below is not only quick but cheap, less than $10.00. Another step to fast, accurate, inexpensive, technology driven health care as envisioned by Clayton Christensen. IMHO this is the kind of thing that will improve health care and reduce costs far better than government control.
Now a Cambridge, MA-based startup called Pathogenica [...]

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Browser Speed Tests

July 30, 2010

HT Lorne Lavine. Envelope please…And the winner is…
Browser Speed Tests: Safari 5, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 6, and Opera 10.6 Beta.

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Letting Patients Read Their Doctors’ Notes

July 30, 2010

I am all for a patient medical dental health information data base…in theory. I see tremendous advantages to such a system. On the other had there are legitimate access, privacy and security issues. Another issue, is it wise to allow patients free access to their records and doctor notes? The NYT story linked below discusses [...]

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New Kindle from Amazon

July 30, 2010
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What?

July 29, 2010

Hmmmm
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Why are aliens always green? 
Why doesn’t onomatopoeia sound like what it is?
If you set to work with a knife that will cut through anything and Tupperware that’s guaranteed not to break, what happens?
Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it?
Why is a [...]

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No Joke: World running out of IP addresses.

July 29, 2010

Here’s the story as given to me by a friend. It sounds about right.
The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses — the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device.
There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left — enough for about [...]

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Hmmmm

July 29, 2010

Traditional diagnosis is based on experience and judgement, which is a fancy way of saying…guesswork.

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Ultrasonic Perio

July 29, 2010

The link below is to a DrBicuspid article (registration required). Some experts contend we will not be seeing ultrasonic diagnostics in dentistry any time soon because dental anatomy is too complex and ultrasonic diagnostics are too expensive. On the other hand researchers are developing an ultrasonic device to measure perio pockets that they say could [...]

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Need a Technoshrink?

July 29, 2010

From Guerrilla Marketing: Future success requires that you be technocozy; If you are not your technophobia is holding back your dental practice. If you suffer from that affliction, make an appointment with your technoshrink immediately. Technophobia is fatal these days.
Technoshrink appointmenst here

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Guide to Digital Radiography

July 28, 2010

Digital Radiography is one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies in dentistry. It is also the area with the most misinformation. I constantly talk with dentists who either do buy digital for the wrong reasons or don’t buy for the wrong reasons.
My comprehensive technology guide, “Digital Radiography” exposes nine myths about digital radiography [...]

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The Stories we Tell

July 28, 2010

It has been a while since I linked to Lioness Katherine Eitel. The link below is from her weekly e-letter and reminds us of an important truth. Self talk shapes our attitudes. This truth holds for high tech changes just as much as it does for the important issues Katherine outlines in her message. For example:
Negative [...]

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Claim your Listing

July 28, 2010

 I have written about this several times in the past Here: However it is a still a big issues most dentists know nothing about. If you have not done it recently: Google your self immediately. What do you find?  See the map like the one shown here (for Chinese food in Alameda if you are interested). [...]

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Trees to Go

July 28, 2010

 This Seth Godin blog link has his usual interesting and thought provoking take on things. It takes a look at the difference between paper and non paper writing. A subject that interests me quite a bit as I have transitioned from paper magazine writing to blogging and other e-publications.
It has other more direct implications for dentistry. [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Defragmenting

July 27, 2010

The Buzz: You don’t need to worry about defragmenting your hard drive.
The Anti-Buzz: You do need to worry about defragmenting your hard drive.
Why: Even a computer doesn’t like playing 52-card pick up every time you ask it to fetch something.
There are a few out there for whom this might be a sensitive subject. It’s sort [...]

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Practice and Thrive

July 26, 2010

I just received a new ADA e-mail newsletter called Practice & Thrive focused on practice management issues. The July issue has articles on patient satisfaction and the economy. Interesting take away: 66.7% of general dentists update fees every year. The link below is from the satisfaction article and links to the ADA Dental Practice Hub (membership [...]

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Intra Oral Positioning Survey

July 26, 2010

Imaging Sciences (i-cat) is doing some market research and running a survey on intraoral positioning and portable x-ray. As a thank you to those who take the survey, they will enter your name in a drawing for a FREE GXC-300 intraoral camera.
 
Click here to take the survey.

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Grow Your Practice Webinar

July 26, 2010

The link below will take you to Webinar on Growing your dental practice.
New Ways to Grow Your Practice as a Dentist (ExecSense Webinars).

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Searching for my Destiny

July 26, 2010

Dr. George Blue Spruce, the first recognized American Indian dentist, has released his memoirs, “Searching for my Destiny”. He is currently an associate dean at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health which is in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. No technology involved but it is dentistry and it involves our local dental school.

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July 25, 2010
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