Remember when the Canon 10D was the hottest digital camera in dentistry. Now there is a 50D !
Canon DSLR Model Mania Continues As The 50D Is Introduced - Gearlog.
New Live DENTRIX WebinarsDentrix is pleased to bring you a new series of Webinars happening every Friday throughout July. These online trainings will cover specific topics to help users get the most out of Dentrix’s powerful features. More.
Dentrix Dental Practice Management Software Systems.
Speed: When you take a digital photo the image is produced on the computer screen in seconds. Compare that to the hassle of taking photographic film to a developer and waiting days to get the prints. If you take a digital image and it is flawed; for instance it may be under exposed, the colors [...]
Where to put the treatment room computer monitors is a dilemma for many offices.
Monitors need to be positioned so that the assistant can access it easily to input data, such as chairside charting, while maintaining contact with the dentist and patient. They also need to be close enough for the dentist to view radiographs [...]
The following is from the Pacific Management Consultants e-newsletter
While there are several groups who specialize in dental web page design, and a multitude of young folk who are designing websites for dentists in various cities and areas of the country, they tend to emphasize certain design guidelines as well as website content, and de-emphasize what [...]
Read the article quoted below. It is a look at the newest innovations in flash memery and where we will be using it and how. For example using a direct wifi connection instead of taking it from a camera to a reader. That would have a direct use in the dental office.
Today’s flash drives max [...]
Check out the Extreme Tech article for some details on key board shortcuts. Hands off the Mouse!
Windows is like a real-time strategy game. You can do everything with the mouse, but you’ll be so much better at it if you learn the keyboard shortcuts.
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts: Hands Off the Mouse! - OS, Software & [...]
The following excerpt from DPR via dental blogs demonstrates the power of group think. “49% say sensors are uncomfortable.” Just because some other dentist heard this at a study club from some other dentist who has never used a sensor does not make it true.
In my experience, sensors are usually more comfortable than film.
Radiography - [...]
At the WealthyDentist.com, a recent survey reveals that over half of the dentists who responded have completely or partially stopped accepting dental insurance. The 44% who claim that they only partially work with insurance companies may mean that they are not in network with any insurance company, but they will file claims as a courtesy. [...]
Control – Alt – Delete
The most common form of communication within dental practices was to roam the office and chase down the person needed. This could be very annoying for everyone and appear unprofessional to your patients. Most of all it wastes more time than you can imagine. While both light panels and direct communication work to get basic [...]
Spectra looks like an intra oral video camera, but it doesn’t function like a video camera. Spectra helps the dentist identify tooth decay by revealing cariogenic bacteria based on the fluorescence principle. LED’s project high-energy blue-light with a wavelength of 405 nm onto the tooth surface. Light of this wavelength stimulates bacteria to fluoresce red, [...]
Another online forms system. Seems very basic, does not integrate with the management system, won’t integrate with your web site and they charge a lot !!! ($400) to customize. All for an annual fee of $300.
Offer your patients the choice to complete forms online; you can analyze and validate the data before their appointment. This service is [...]
This article has nothing to do with dentistry but the idea is just so cool.
Scientists have created two new types of materials that can bend light the wrong way, creating the first step toward an invisibility cloaking device.
‘Invisibility Cloak’ Takes Another Step Closer - News and Analysis by PC Magazine.
SD cards come in three physical sizes, tiny, tinier and tiniest. The standard cards, about half the size of a CompactFlash card, are 24 x 32 x 2.1mm. Mini SD cards are 21.5 x 20 x 1.4 mm. Micro SD cards are 15 x11 x 1 mm. Originally these cards were designed to hold a [...]
A tablet PC is a mobile computer in the shape of a slate. Tablets use a touch screen that allows the user to operate the computer with a stylus (a digital pen) or a fingertip, instead of a keyboard or mouse. In other words the user can simply tap the screen to check off a [...]
Don’t make the common mistake of assuming that once you have purchased practice management software and some computers to run it your investment in technology is over. The fact is you will have ongoing expenses and you must plan and budget for them. If you don’t the original investment will never pay off as well [...]
Follow the link to one of the first tech industry articles I have read that says Vista is OK. Never the less I’m still not using it.
Is Windows Vista Really That Bad?
Is Windows Vista Really That Bad? - Opinions by ExtremeTech.
The SensAble™ Dental Lab System provides an integrated solution to scan, design and fabricate common dental restorations. It is the first integrated digital solution to support the production process for partial frameworks, as well as crown and bridge substructures.
This unique integrated system is also the first digital solution for dental restorations that uses “3D virtual [...]