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Cameras

How to Buy a Digital Photo Frame – Reviews by PC Magazine

December 12, 2009

Digital photo frames are a great tool for use in the dental office. They can be used to show before and after cases, to introduce team members with a photo and to present treatment options like whitening or Invisalign. The following links to  PC Magazine piece designed to help you make a good choice.
Old school [...]

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Dental Economics Digital impressions: Creating the “aha” moment

November 9, 2009

Follow the link below to my October DE article on digital impressions.
To understand the advantages of digital impressions, let’s compare it to another digital system you have probably used and understand — a digital photograph.
via Dental Economics-Dental News – Digital impressions: Creating the “aha” moment.

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Death of the DSLR Camera – Gearlog

October 28, 2009

The article linked below defends and explains the advantages of a good SLR digital camera. I highly recommend a digital camers for dental use…on every patient.
So what exactly is the DSLR advantage? Countless articles have been written on the benefits of large-sensor DSLR cameras, but in a nutshell: The primary reason that DSLRs provide better [...]

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Amazon.com: Todays Deals: Electronics

September 30, 2009

Top Ten Amazon Electronics deals. They all can have a dental use.
Amazon.com: Todays Deals: Electronics.

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Video Surveillance

September 15, 2009

Follow this link to the white paper described below. To view the paper requires registration.

7 Benefits of Wireless Video Surveillance
Fixed video surveillance solutions are poised to become one of the most powerful and productive technology tools in every part of the globe. Systems integrators and network operators are increasingly choosing the very [...]

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Photo Tip

August 31, 2009

Terry Xelowski from Sundance Lab mentioned this idea to me, which once you think about it is so obvious yet I have rarely done it. When you finish a great restorative case…send a copy of the after photo to the lab. The technicians will appreciate seeing their careful work delivered into the mouth of a [...]

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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.
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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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