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Future Tech

Natural Dental Implant

March 23, 2013

More Here: A customized implant for each lost tooth. Interersting, amazing technology but not approved for use in the US. It is in the FDA approval process.

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Disease Registry Gives Patients Some Privacy

March 22, 2013

From Mashable and MIT: As advances in genomics, molecular analysis, and data processing have propelled disease research forward, scientists and drug developers still face a formidable challenge: recruiting patients for their studies via New Disease Registry Gives Patients Some Privacy. I first clicked the linked article thinking it would address the primary issue I have [...]

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Peter Drucker, the dean of American management theorists, wrote

March 19, 2013

“Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred. In a matter of decades, society all together rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, and its key institutions. Fifty years later a new world exists. And the people born into that world cannot even [...]

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Anti-Buzz: The End of the Metaphor

March 16, 2013

I’m going to come right out and predict an upcoming trend: The End of the Metaphor. It’s a broad yet a subtle trend. With the foundation of pop-computing well and truly built, there is going to be a sea change in how software is designed for your average user, this does include you, and (eventually), your [...]

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A Wireless Brain-Computer Interface

March 15, 2013

Hmmm A new wireless brain implant could be an important step toward technology that lets people with mobility problems control a computer or wheelchair with their thoughts. via A Wireless Brain-Computer Interface May One Day Help People with Mobility Problems | MIT Technology Review.

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The Robotic Doctor is In

March 14, 2013

If the robot can take out a gall bladder it should be able to do a dental filling. By 10 am the robot has already carved out an entire human organ.The patient’s gallbladder, riddled with infection, is gone, and in a darkened operating room at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the machine is going back [...]

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Bing Now, a Crowdsourcing Tool to Find Local Businesses That Aren’t Crowded

March 12, 2013

Cool or creepy? A research project called Bing Now, demonstrated at Microsoft’s headquarters last week, could give Web searchers a way to gauge the current vibe of a bar or restaurant before they book a table. via Microsoft Demos Bing Now, a Crowdsourcing Tool to Find Local Businesses That Aren’t Crowded | MIT Technology Review. [...]

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Augmented Reality App

March 12, 2013

The linked article shows how online shoppers can use augmented reality to see how a new sofa might look in the living room. …an Android and iOS app which uses augmented reality to let you visualize how products will look in your home. If you want to see a product in your environment, just click the [...]

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Will 3D Printing Transform your Life?

March 11, 2013

I have this on my Kindle reading list, looks very interesting but have not yet started reading. The authors state “[in] the not-so-distant future, people will 3D print living tissue, nutritionally calibrated food, and ready-made, fully assembled electronic components.”  

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Webinar March 13

March 9, 2013

Digital Technology and the Future of Dentistry Larry Emmott, DDS Course date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 05:00 PM (MST) Computers aren’t just for numbers any more. Some of the most exciting and incredible developments in technology are in the area of advanced diagnostics and treatment. Everyday dentist are faced with remarkable new high tech products [...]

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Accuracy of technology for placing implants tested

March 4, 2013

I am such a huge fan of high tech it is easy to get carried away. It is good to have some real world research to back up high tech wonders such as Cone Beam CT. The CBCT was found to be accurate and reliable; however, the STL was found to significantly both overestimate and [...]

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Interoperability: Opening the Industry to Open Technologies

March 1, 2013

This week in Dentalcompare: Imagine a world where cars are managed like dental technology. If you owned a Chevy you could only fill up at a Chevy filling station using Chevy gas. Honda gas won’t work. You can only drive in the Chevy lane and take the Chevy off ramp. If the Chevy off ramp [...]

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Medicine Is About to Get Cheaper for Regular People

February 28, 2013

From Wired Business: After years of exotic and very expensive machines sequencing DNA, the genomics industry finally looks poised for its cell phone moment. Soon, the business of genetics could look a lot like the commodity-driven mobile industry, with providers selling hardware on the cheap and relying on software, apps and diagnostics to drive revenue. [...]

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Bergman and the Geeks Agree

February 23, 2013

Stan Bergman the chairman of Henry Schein the biggest dental supply company in North America and the biggest bunch of dental tech geeks in North America agree. I attended a special breakfast meeting Mr. Bergman arranged for media and opinion leaders in which he discussed the future of digital dentistry. Then I spent some productive [...]

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The High-Tech Future of Medicine

February 22, 2013

Over the past several decades, treatment for a variety of conditions has begun to shift from a “one size fits all” approach to a more personalized one: the right dose of the right drug for the right patient at the right time. As a result, patients can more often be matched to the best drug [...]

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What’s New?

February 21, 2013

I am off to the Chicago Midwinter to seek out the next big thing. And participate in the Pride Institute Technology Awards

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Why the Cloud is Better

February 21, 2013

Cloud computing has been the “next big thing” for close to fifteen years. I first wrote about it back in 1999 when it was called ASP (Application Service Provider). Why it has taken so long to actually catch on is an interesting study, never the less with the entrance of Henry Schein and Dentrix Ascend [...]

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S-Curve of Change

February 20, 2013

Technological change does not follow a linear progression. We tend to see change as slowly happening over time, that each year a few more people have adapted a particular new thing. That kind of change is represented by the straight black line on the drawing. However most of the time change does not happen in [...]

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Why Dentrix in the Cloud is Such a Big Thing

February 20, 2013

The announcement scheduled for later this week at the Chicago Midwinter that Henry Schein and Dentrix are getting into the cloud is huge. In the US Henry Schein is the biggest dental supplier and their flagship practice management system Dentrix is the most used software Various companies have been nibbling at the edge of cloud [...]

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Dentrix Launching a Cloud Based System!

February 19, 2013

This is BIG NEWS Henry Schein, is launching a new cloud-based practice management system at the Chicago MidWinter. According to Schein insiders, it is a completely new system. The designers spent two years in research and development working with dentists to create an innovative interface and workflow from the ground up. On Thursday, in Chicago, [...]

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