From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Best External Hard Drive Reviews – Video Test of Portable Hard Drives – Popular Mechanics

July 31, 2008

The winner survived being crushed by an SUV! See the video.

4 New Portable Hard Drives: Abusive Lab Test (With Video)When you back up your data, you want to make sure it stays where you put it. We ended up with three paperweights and one clear winner.

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Handheld and Portable X-ray – Aribex, Inc.

July 31, 2008

The new nomad design is smaller and lighter than the original. This will be great for use out of the office. Just bring a laptop and a sensor and you can take an x-ray anywhere.

One NOMAD Pro does the work of multiple conventional X-ray systems, making it extremely economical. The leading technology of NOMAD Pro [...]

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Planning for a Paperless Record

July 30, 2008

The following advice comes from my great friends and associates at the Pride Institute.
“Evolving from a dead wood practice to a paperless practice requires a vision and a plan.  You need to address why and how before you welcome the technology into your practice.
At this point, many dentists turn to a practice management company [...]

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Lawyers

July 29, 2008

1) What’s wrong with Lawyer jokes?Lawyers don’t think they’re funny, and nobody else thinks they’re jokes.
2) When asked, “What is a contingent fee?” a lawyer answered, “A contingent fee to a lawyer means, if I don’t win your suit, I get nothing. If I do win it, you get nothing.”
3) A group of terrorists hijacked [...]

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Digital radiography in dentistry: a survey of Indiana dentists -

July 29, 2008

According to this survey of Indiana dentists just under 20% are using digital radiography. Click the link for the full article.

Results: One hundred and fifty-two dental practices (51%) responded to the survey. Thirty dental practices (19.7%) used digital radiography in their office. Twenty-two (73%) of the dentists using digital radiography were general practitioners. The number [...]

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Create Personalized Documents with Mail Merge – Solutions by PC Magazine

July 29, 2008

You don’t often hear tell of the urge to…mail merge. And that’s a shame, because this powerful tool lets you easily and automatically create any number of letters that look personalized, documents with information relevant to each recipient, and even documents without recipients that have consistent elements.
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Digital Radiography Guide

July 29, 2008

Digital Radiography is one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies in dentistry. It is also the area with the most misinformation. I constantly talk with dentists who either do buy digital for the wrong reasons or don’t buy for the wrong reasons.My comprehensive technology guide, “Digital Radiography” exposes nine myths about digital radiography [...]

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Software for going Paperless

July 28, 2008

Good charting software has many features. One of the most important is that it eliminates all paper. That means the software must accommodate all the bits of paper data outlined above and it must have a method of importing virtually anything either with a scanner or file import function. If some bit of paper possibly [...]

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Training for a NEW system

July 28, 2008

Training is not an option it is essential. Sometimes dentists think that because training is priced separately it is optional and not really needed. That is stupid foolish! You will never get value from your technology investment without training.
Usually new systems start with two days of training. Some trainers will want you to take it [...]

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What’s Next?

July 27, 2008

I just got back from the Dental Trade Alliance (DTA) meeting. This is a group of the leading manufacturers, distributors, and labs in the dental industry. The key question they were asking is “What’s Next?” That is to say, what are the major changes that will impact dentistry and as such the businesses that support [...]

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Free Preview – WSJ.com

July 18, 2008

World-wide personal-computer sales grew at a healthy clip in the second quarter, two research firms said, with Hewlett-Packard Inc. holding on to its top ranking despite rapid growth by No. 2 Dell Inc.Gartner Inc. said world-wide PC shipments grew 16% in the period, with U.S. shipments growing 4.2%. Rival IDC …
Free Preview – WSJ.com.

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Five Reasons to use Guru or Caesy

July 18, 2008

1. They save time. The doctor or hygienist isn’t stuck repeating the same message over and over again for each patient.2. The message is consistent. Whether it is the dentist, assistant front desk or hygienist presenting the message it is always the same.3. The program provides documented informed consent. If you are ever challenged as to what you [...]

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Donuts?

July 18, 2008

Monitors follow the law of donuts; if one is good two is better and three is even better.

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Digital Diagnostics

July 18, 2008

One of the most exciting areas of new product development is high tech diagnostics. The core of hi tech diagnostics is the ability to scientifically measure a biologic condition and then to convert those measurements to a digital format for analysis and recording. The result is a highly accurate and consistent measurement.
The Florida Probe uses [...]

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Anatomage

July 18, 2008

Anatomage is a very impressive software suite for use with Cone Beam CT.

Volumetric imaging software for dental clinicians. Dental specialists can review the data files generated by Cone Beam CT machines such as the i-CAT®, iluma®, NewTom®, Galileos, Scanora, ProMax3D, PreXion, etc. Find out more about

Welcome to Anatomage.

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Three Levels of Digital Radiography Software

July 17, 2008

Basic digital radiography software should provide the following:*An electronic storage system to capture, store retrieve and display the image.*Basic enhancement tools including brightness, contrast and zoom.
Good digital radiography software should provide the following:*Interoperability, the ability to capture images from multiple sensors.*Integration or bridging with the patient’s electronic record.*DICOM (Digital Image Communication in Medicine) conformance.*ease of [...]

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Where to put the computer Tower

July 17, 2008

Do not put the treatment room tower on the floor, it is likely to be damaged from cleaning activities; it could easily get wet from spills or mopping and it will pick up lots of dirt and dust. It needs to be close to a power supply and allow access in and out for various cables. [...]

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Electronic records help doctors, patients work together

July 17, 2008

An article from the AZ Republic on the use of electronic health records at the VA.

One of medicine’s most enduring icons – the folder brimming with a patient’s records – is being replaced by electronic health records,

Electronic records help doctors, patients work together.

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Computer Skills for Dentists

July 15, 2008

Do you know how to:
 

Turn on the computer and log in?Open Windows Explorer?Make a new file and name it?Click and drag?Resize a window?Minimize a window?Find a window after you have lost it?What kind of file ends in .doc?.jpg?exe?

If you can not answer these questions or are not sure you need to get some basic windows training. [...]

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