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Cameras

Picture Manager

August 18, 2009

I picked up a gem from a local Phoenix dentist, Ginger Price. If you have Microsoft Office 2007 (and in my opinion every dentisy should) it includes a great little photo editor called Picture Manager. Picture Manager has very basic editing functions like: cropping, resizing, color and brightness adjustments and “red eye” removal. This is [...]

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Dental Learning Centers

August 7, 2009

A very complete site for cameras: that is purchasing, supplies and best of all training.

Dental Learning Centers.

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Amazon Electronics Deals

August 6, 2009

Several of these products have a direct use in a dental office including digital frames, external hard drives for back up, cameras and even HD monitors.
Amazon Electronics Deals

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What the heck is a Pixel?

August 3, 2009

Pixel is short for picture element. Basically it is a dot (actually a tiny square) on the computer screen. The dots are arranged in rows and columns and are so close together they appear to be connected. The dot can be a shade of gray or a color. A typical 1280 x 720 image has [...]

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Photo Tip

August 1, 2009

When you take the patient photo for cosmetic evaluation and imaging be sure to have the teeth slightly apart. This makes the incisal edges much easier to see and patients will notice the chipped and misaligned teeth. Plus it is much easier to drop in a smile from the library if the lower teeth are [...]

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Image File Formats

July 5, 2009

File format is indicated by the three letters following the dot in a file name. Following are three commonly used graphics file formats used on web pages and how each differs from the others.
JPEG/JPGShort for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the original name of the committee that wrote the standard. JPG is a lossy compression technique [...]

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Digital Camera Features

July 3, 2009

Focus: To be effective in dentistry a digital camera must meet several criteria. First it must be able to take a good picture in focus with out distortion of both a full face and a close up of the smile. Inexpensive cameras can’t do this. Most standard point and shoot cameras are designed to take a [...]

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Interoperability vs. Proprietary

June 17, 2009

Definitions from Webopedia
Interoperability: The ability of software and hardware on different machines from different vendors to share data.
Proprietary: Privately owned and controlled. A proprietary design or technique is one that is owned by a company. It also implies that the company has not divulged specifications that would allow other companies to duplicate the product.
You [...]

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Presenting Ideal Dental Treatment

June 17, 2009

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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Defining Resolution

June 3, 2009

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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High Tech Budget

May 23, 2009

The first essential element to developing a high tech office is the purchase and use of a good integrated practice management software like Dentrix, PracticeWorks or Eaglesoft. Most dentists recognize this and they sometimes think the only cost is the software. However there are many costs associated with advanced technology besides the price of the [...]

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Fourth Generation USB Cameras

May 23, 2009

Direct USB cameras have a number of advantages over video cameras with video capture.

First there is no need for a video capture card. The camera image has a direct digital connection through the USB port. No capture card saves $200 to $500.

No Docking Station. Video cameras need a docking station at each chair where they [...]

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Eye-Fi Explore – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine

May 19, 2009

The Eye-Fi Explore lets you transfer your photos wirelessly to your PC and/or popular photo-sharing sites via Wi-Fi, and it also geotags your images.
Eye-Fi Explore – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine.

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Video Online

May 5, 2009

Recent studies show that online video is becoming an effective way for dentists to market their practices. In December of 2008, Comscore found that YouTube was the second largest search site online, representing more than 26% of all Google searches. Based on the research: Can a business really afford to not use online video marketing when 1/4th of all Google [...]

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SUNI – Medical Imaging Inc. – United States

April 22, 2009

Suni was one of the first direct USB intraoral cameras. At the time it was introduced it was a great idea but had some limitations. The new version has addressed some of the issues such as the size and orientation of the camera head and image quality.
USB cameras are a great improvement over the old [...]

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PhotoMed / Canon G10

April 16, 2009

This is the latest point and shoot kit from PhotoMed. The kit described below is selling for $1,479

Everything you need, except the computer. Canon G10 camera, 1GB memory card, high quality macro lens, lighting attachment, memory card reader (for fast image transfer to the computer), hard case and Canon image organization software. The camera is [...]

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Digital Doc Icon USB 2 Camera

April 14, 2009

A well designed camera using a direct USB, no wireless as Digital Doc cameras used in the past. Higher price than some others $4995

Introducing the next advance in intraoral cameras… the new Digital Doc iCon. It’s simpler because everything is integrated in the handpiece. That includes a USB 2.0 connector that plugs into your computer [...]

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Top Ten Electronics Deals from Amazon

March 20, 2009

Top Ten
Most of the ten could find a use in a dental office: Earphones for patient anxiety control, a digital camera, digital frames to show before and after images in the reception room, a photo printer, a TV networking device, a removeable hard drive and more.

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TRENDnet |New Network Camera

March 3, 2009

The Wireless N Internet Camera Server with 2-Way Audio transmits real-time high quality streaming video over the Internet. Users can view and manage the camera from any Internet connection. 300Mbps wireless n technology provides up to four times the coverage of comparable wireless g solutions and vastly improved bandwidth to wirelessly stream security video.

TRENDnet [...]

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PhotoMed Universal Mirror Handle

March 2, 2009

PhotoMed Universal Mirror Handle.
A nice gadget from Photo Med

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