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Inventors of the Year

May 23, 2013

I have been trying the Canary System and the science behind it is impressive. Seems I am not the only one who was impressed. The University of Toronto honored the inventor Dr. Stephen Abrams with an Inventor of the Year award. This from the press release: The Canary System is the brainchild of dentist Dr. [...]

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Fashionistas Take Note

May 23, 2013

Nomad, the hand held x-ray, and one of my favorite technologies, has just announced a new Nomad Pro2 in black with gray trim. Tre chic.

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Value Proposition for Nomad

May 19, 2013
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Who Knows What ?

May 16, 2013

This week on Dental Compare: There are six different primary functions found in Practice Management Software. Everybody does not need to know everything but everybody does need to know something. Every dental team member does not need to be a mouse master with intimate knowledge of every click and cranny of the software. However every [...]

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Eight Advantages of Cloud Computing

May 10, 2013

Dentalcompare this week’s article. What the heck do people mean when they talk about cloud computing and how does that effect dentistry? …one would never display techno ignorance by being so out of it as to ask what the term “The Cloud” is actually referring to. So what does the cloud actually mean in the [...]

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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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A Car is Not Merely a Faster Horse

May 2, 2013

This week on Dentalcompare. Dentists buy the wrong technology because they are stuck in the wrong timeframe  “A car is not merely a faster horse.” E-mail is not a faster fax. Word processing is not a faster typewriter. And Google is not merely faster Yellow Pages. At the basic level this is a simple idea [...]

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The File Room of 2023

April 26, 2013

Today: The dentist has a room filled with charts, radiographs, correspondence, EOBs and all the other records along with endless little white boxes filled with plaster models. Finding the models and records for a case done six years ago requires an exploratory party and soon bears a striking resemblance to a wilderness expedition. But make no mistake about [...]

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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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Graph Search Could Change Everything

April 23, 2013

The following is an excerpt from my Dentalcompare article. Follow the link for the whole thing. …There it is, “dentists my friends liked.” With Graph Search a patient “like” becomes far more valuable than it was before… With Graph Search the person looking for a dentist … can search their social graph to see which dentists [...]

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Online Bill Pay

April 22, 2013

I am a huge fan of online e-services. The video above from Sesame gives a quick outline of the benefits of one simple online service, that is allowing patients to pay online from your web page. This not only improves cash flow and reduces receivables it gives patients a reason to return to your web [...]

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Nomad Pro 2 Debut

April 18, 2013
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Changes in Hardware Change How We Practice

April 16, 2013

From my article in Sidekick Mgazine: It is no longer necessary to assign a computer to a place—the computer can be assigned to a person and it simply goes wherever the person goes. It is a bit like an old wall-mounted corded telephone and a handheld cell phone. The old wall mount is the kitchen [...]

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Treatment Room Monitors

April 11, 2013

Pole Mounts Placing computer monitors in the treatment rooms so that both the patient and the dental team can use them is a challenge. If your dental chair/unit has a light pole the obvious solution is a pole mount. These work, however they are less stable than wall or ceiling mounts. Every time the light [...]

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The best way to print digital X-rays

April 8, 2013

    Don’t do it.       More help choosing and using Digital Radiography

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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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The ‘Smart Practice’ Solution

April 4, 2013

 By Imtiaz Manji: You can always spot the dentists who have truly internalized a modern approach to dentistry. They’re the ones who use technology in an integrated way to help them tell a story. These dentists are able to take their patients on a journey and build bridges from where their patients are to where [...]

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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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Caries Diagnostics Steps Ahead With The Canary System

March 28, 2013

This week on Dentalcompare: If Doctor McCoy on Star Trek had been a dentist he wouldn’t have used a Tricorder he would have used a Canary. via Emmott On Technology: Caries Diagnostics Steps Ahead With The Canary System | Dentalcompare.com. I am using Canary in my office. The science is amazing and the patients love [...]

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Taking X-rays Off the Wall and by the Hand

March 14, 2013

This week in Dentalcompare, one of my favorite products: The NOMAD, a hand held x-ray unit from Aribex, looks like a big ray gun from an old sci-fi film. There is a body, a pistol grip and a cone or barrel that emits the x-rays. The operator aims the device and holds it steady while [...]

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