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June 18, 2013
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June 14, 2013
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CEREC Smile Design 4.2

June 12, 2013

Nice video outline of the new smile design feature of CEREC 4.2 by Todd Ehrlich:

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Why go Paperless? What I have now works and doesn’t cost a thing.

June 10, 2013

Paper charts don’t just appear in the office for free. The paper folder and all the other papers cost about $2.50 each. If you have 2500 charts they cost you at least $6,250 to create and every time a new patient walks in it’s another two-fifty; cha-ching. Other chart contents, like x-rays and photographs can [...]

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Tech Support

June 9, 2013
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Books and More

June 6, 2013

Emmott on Technology is an Amazon affiliate. Scroll down and look at the offers in the boxes in the right hand column. These include some of my favorite books on technology, medicine , business and the future as well as daily deals on electronics and technology. If you choose to connect and buy from this [...]

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South Portland doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online

May 31, 2013

Hmmm The family physician stopped accepting all forms of health insurance. In early 2013, Ciampi sent a letter to his patients informing them that he would no longer accept any kind of health coverage, both private and government-sponsored. Given that he was now asking patients to pay for his services out of pocket, he posted [...]

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Thank You

May 27, 2013
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Smiling For Dollars

May 24, 2013

Not technology related but interesting and worth reading. Long ago, Charles Darwin theorized that facial expressions actually determine your mental state. Several studies show that he was right on the money. A Penn State University study found that people who flash their pearly whites not only spread the love and appear more “happy and courteous,” [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts

May 24, 2013

Amex Open Forum:

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Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control

May 17, 2013

Interesting, related to “Who owns the data?” The publisher had argued, essentially, that you might own a book you bought, but the company retained the right to sell it. Ownership ought to mean something. When you buy a smartphone or an automobile, it should be yours, and companies shouldn’t be able to leverage their intellectual [...]

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Oh Yeah, It’s a Phone Too

May 14, 2013

One of the fundamental changes that digital technology has produced is so subtle we often don’t even acknowledge it yet it is so substantial that it has altered everything. Once the basic capacity is in place a digital device can do many many that is to say many tasks. The most obvious example is a [...]

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11 PC Keyboard Shortcuts to Enhance Your Productivity

May 6, 2013

11 PC Keyboard Shortcuts to Enhance Your Productivity | The New OPEN Forum.

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Bicycle Stuff

May 3, 2013

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A Doctor’s Touch

May 3, 2013

Thank you to Dr. Julie Kellog a dentist from Walla Walla who told me about the TED video above. As is usually the case with TED presentations the speaker Dr. Abraham Verghese packs a lot of insight into a short time frame. The basic concept is that we must always remember that we treat people, [...]

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Transition Tip

April 26, 2013

When you switch from one computer system to another there is no need to trash the old system once the new one is in place. Keep it up and running. That does not mean you do dual entry and try and use both systems simultaneously, that’s a sure recipe for disaster. Set a day to [...]

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Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life

April 20, 2013

Hmmm These guys argue that it’s possible to measure the complexity of life and the rate at which it has increased from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to more complex creatures such as worms, fish and finally mammals… That raises an interesting question. What happens if you extrapolate backwards to the point of no complexity–the origin of [...]

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Change

April 16, 2013

Some thoughts from Phil Van Hooser. People have various levels of comfort with change. Chance tolerance is part of their personality, emotional makeup and past experience. Not everyone resits or fears change. Personally however I  am constantly faced with the issue of dentists or dental team members who are resistant to new technology are comfortable where they [...]

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What People Notice First

April 14, 2013
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Rational Optimist

April 7, 2013

What I am reading right now: Excellent

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