From the monthly archives:

September 2010

The Basic Guide to Troubleshooting Common Windows PC Problems

September 23, 2010

Found this via Lorne Lavine. The full guide has lots of tips including: the “blue screen of death”, speeding up a slow PC, dealing with viruses and spyware, and finding a forgoten password. (The actual tips are more serious than the flowchart pictred here. :-) )
Your Windows PC might be designed to make your life easier, but [...]

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PLZ becomes 360

September 22, 2010

Lighthouse PLZ has changed its name to Lighthouse 360. A new name and new look, but same awesome product!

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Defining Resolution, lp/mm

September 22, 2010

Line Pairs per Millimeter (lp/mm). This is a measure of resolution, which refers to pairs of lines pressed tighter and tighter together until they eventually merge into a single line. The more lines that can be pressed into a millimeter and still be seen as individual lines, the higher the resolution. Digital radiography sensors can [...]

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Suffering from a Weak WiFi Signal? Boost It!

September 22, 2010

From John Fluke. I hope it works because it looks ridiculous like some mad scientist device from a bad 50s sci fi movie.
If you live in an area of steel frameworks and long skinny dwellings, you may suffer from a lack of WiFi coverage. To that end, here’s a potential solution for those of you [...]

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Photography Challenge – Unusual Lighting

September 22, 2010

Follow the link to the dentalvision newsletter written by Dennis Braunston. He has a lot of good tips and suggested camera setting to get great photos.
I was recently giving a photography course at Dr. Ernie Casares, San Diego, California. When we were finished he showed me a very cool gadget called a MicroLux TransIlluminator. He [...]

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21% Don’t Use the Internet

September 21, 2010

Two things I can’t live without…cell phone and Internet. The Pew Research article has some detail about who does not use the Internet and why. Of course there is something to be said for the simple life, but… HT Jasom Lipscombe.

While it may be unimaginable to anyone reading this online, one-in-five American adults (21%) do not use the [...]

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Payroll?

September 20, 2010

Dental management expert Sally McKenzie says, payroll industry standard is 19-22% of your collections goes to payroll and 3-5% to taxes and benefits.
Where do you stand? If you are way off it is often possible to reduce staff expenses with technology.

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September 19, 2010

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More than Moore

September 19, 2010

Moore’s Law
Computer power will double every 18 months.
Larry’s Corollary
Every technology product will be better and cheaper in the future…just get over it.
Computers in the office will need to be replaced every three to four years. Computers over four years old can not be relied on to run the current software effectively. Plan to replace one [...]

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Nomad goes Hollywood

September 19, 2010

The Aribex NOMAD Pro will be featured in the season opener for CSI:NY on Wednesday, September 23. Check your local listings for the time, but we think it’s 10PM Pacific and Eastern, 9 PM Central and Mountain. The episode is entitled “Epilogue”.

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What does digital mean?

September 18, 2010

In the most literal sense to digitize something means to turn it into digits or numbers. In a more practical sense it means turning something into the electronic language a computer can understand

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Internet Explorer 9 now available for download

September 18, 2010

Microsoft’s newest browser, Internet Explorer version 9 is available for download. HT Lorne Lavine
Internet Explorer 9 now available for download.

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Learn QuickBooks from the Master

September 17, 2010

I have long been an advocate of QuickBooks for dentists. However too often it seems the dentist either resists this great program (I assume because they don’t understand the value) or they get it and never learnto use it. Susan Gunn is the go to resource for learning and using Quickbooks in the dental office. [...]

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ICW Summer Sale

September 16, 2010

One of my favorite vendors, ICW is having a sale.
Dental mounting systems from ICW.

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Dental EDU.TV

September 16, 2010

I have just returned from spending two days taping a series of CE programs for Dental EDU.tv As soon as they are edited and ready for viewing I will let you know and make them available through my web site. In the mean time check out the dental EDU.tv site to see what is already [...]

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The Colors of the Web’s Superbrands

September 16, 2010

One of the first decisions you need to make when you create a practice brand is color. (By the way you do have a practice brand even if you have not chosen it purposefully.) You will use this practice color in any patient communication, letter head, business cards, and now in the digital age e-mails [...]

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Video Games Improve Fast Decision Making?

September 16, 2010

Hmm. Interesting, I wonder if video games can be used to improve dental decision making? Diagnosis, treatment planning, even clinical decisions made during treatment; like where should I place this margin, or should I save this cusp or is it too weak? The study indicates games improve fast decision making and diagnosis is more deliberate…but [...]

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Pure Politics

September 15, 2010

The linked article is admittedly pure politics. However it confirms my concern that with government run health care decisions will be made more on the basis of politics and less on either sound medicine or finance.
The Health and Human Services secretary wrote that some insurers have been attributing part of their 2011 premium increases to [...]

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