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Cameras

Intraoral Camera and Interoperability

April 5, 2013

Interoperability is the ability of different technologies from different manufacturers to work together. UVC is a tech industry standard for use with streaming video devices like web cams, camcorders and most important for us intraoral video cameras. If a camera is UVC compliant it will plug and play with any standard computer both Windows and [...]

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Online Video CE

March 31, 2013

Online Video CE The High Tech Power Practice Five Modules Essentials Paperless Advanced Internet Stuff DentalEDU.tv

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Video

February 13, 2013

Seen at the Yankee Dental Conference: I visited the Real Cool TV booth at the Yankee meeting. Real Cool produces video for dentists and other businesses. I watched some of their sample bits and was impressed with their style and production value. Bad video is easy. Choppy sound, poor lighting, cluttered backgrounds and an awkward camera [...]

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Presenting Ideal Dental Treatment

January 29, 2013

We would all like to believe that humans make decisions based on facts and logic. If we just educate people about what they need, they will do it. Of course it doesn’t work that way at all. If education and telling worked, everyone would floss, no one would smoke and we’d all be at our [...]

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December 6, 2012

Shop Amazon – Holiday 2012 Electronics Gift List – This Season’s New

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New CEREC Camera

August 13, 2012

Sirona has just announced the introduction of a new Camera for CEREC. It will be introduced during the opening session of the 27 and a half meeting in Las Vegas on Thursday, August 16th. I will be there and I will let you know all about it.

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Screen Yourself for Skin Cancer With Your Phones Camera

July 23, 2012

Something like 90 percent of melanomas–the most serious kind of skin cancer–are visible to the naked eye, no MRI, CT scan, or other kind of sophisticated scanning or imaging necessary. So why bother getting screened at a clinic? via Screen Yourself for Skin Cancer at Home With Your Phones Camera | Popular Science. Another remarkable [...]

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Focus On Digital with Dentalcompare

May 30, 2012

In dentistry we have come to think of “going digital” as digital radiography. However that is just the beginning. The linked Dental Compare focus page looks at digital cameras, impressions and charts as well as advanced cone beam CT systems. All of these are part of a digital office. Going digital doesn’t need to be [...]

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Digital Patient Photos

May 17, 2012

Having a full set of patient images is a huge benefit for treatment planning, actual patient treatment, continuing care and dental-legal documentation. With film, taking processing and storing images was such a time consuming expensive and tedious task we never did it. With digital photography it is fast inexpensive and easy. Every dentist should have [...]

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3D Face Reasearch

January 30, 2012

From Dr. Bicuspid January 18, 2012 — Visitors to the Science Museum in London can have their faces scanned in 3D and see what they might look like in another dimension as part of a new program designed to help oromaxillofacial researchers. The images taken during the project will be used to form the largest [...]

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Top 5 Best Photo Printers

December 16, 2011

A nice overview of photo printers from PC Magazine. The first thing you should understand is that photo printers fall into two categories: dedicated also known as small-format and near-dedicated photo printers. Dedicated photo printers can print nothing but photos. They are typically limited to a maximum paper size of 2-by-3, 4-by-6, or 5-by-7 inches [...]

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The 10 Best Shopping Apps to Compare Prices

December 9, 2011

This is a nice compliment to this. Phone apps that let you compare prices while you shop reviewed by PC Mag. Just in time for some weekend shopping. Shoppers can simply scan a product’s barcode using a smartphone app that pinpoints the lowest prices and shares ratings and reviews from other shoppers. via The 10 Best [...]

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The Best Products of 2011

November 18, 2011

From PC Magazine: Perhaps the greatest distinction we give, however, is our Best of the Year Awards, which are presented to those products that truly dazzle us. Best of the year in these catagories: Desktops Laptops Tablets Peripherals & Components Audio Digital Cameras Ebook Readers GPS Navigation HDTVs Cell Phones Mobile Devices Mobile Apps Security [...]

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Acteon Goes Apple

September 9, 2011

Acteon North America has released an Apple (OSx) version of their acquisition and viewing software for use with the Sopro brand cameras. That means you can use a Sopro camera (including the amazing SoproLIFE that uses light fluorescence to detect caries) or even a digital radiography sensor and capture and view the image directly on an Apple computer such [...]

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Magna Vu

July 14, 2011

The MagnaVu consists of a high quality digital camera, precision optics, a bright LED light, a mounting system and a monitor to display what the camera is capturing. The camera optics allow for 23x optical zoom with additional digital zoom up to 46x. For comparison most dental loupes have between 2.5x and 4.5x magnification and [...]

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Who owns that phone?

June 22, 2011

The linked article by law professor Glen Reynolds discusses the recent kerfuffle with Apple possibly attempting to control the use of iPhone video. It also raises a question of ownership. When Americans buy an iPhone or other gadget, we tend to think that, since we paid for it, we actually, you know, own it. But [...]

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Polaroid Grey Label GL10 Instant Mobile Printer

June 14, 2011

This photo printer featured in the PC Magazine review might be a good option in a dental office. We could use it to print indiviual after smiles. It is designed for single snapshots not full pages or multiple images. Therefore it would not be a good choice for case presentations or insurance photos. Just stick [...]

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How to Recover that Picture You Deleted Accidentally

March 3, 2011

HT Lorne Lavine Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo on your camera, computer, USB drive, or anywhere else? What you might not know is that you can usually restore those pictures—even from your camera’s memory stick. via How to Recover that Photo, Picture or File You Deleted Accidentally – How-To Geek.

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Amazing 360 Photography

February 17, 2011

This is amazing…click here to check it out. Not dental but still well worth seeing. And it does have a potential dental/medical application. Wouldn’t it be great to have a 360 view of a patient’s mouth and or head neck and face. Great for diagnosis and documentation. This 360 photo is in some ways similar to [...]

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Magnified Video Dentistry

December 31, 2010

I believe that Magnavu is one of the best kept secrets in dentistry. This is a remarkable product that should, in my opinion, be part of every new practice set up. It uses relatively simple technology, that is a digital video camera built into a dental light, to create a very high quality magnified picture of the [...]

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