From the category archives:

Diagnostics

CBCT Diagnosis

July 19, 2011

Image artifacts such as noise, scatter, and beam hardening are inevitable in the 3D imaging world. But many dental practitioners remain unaware of them and the impact they can have on diagnostic accuracy. The  following Dr. Bicuspid (registration required) article explains.
With the advent of more affordable cone-beam CT systems (CBCT), a growing number of dental practitioners are [...]

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Digital Occlusion

July 8, 2011

This four minute video from Neuromuscular guru Clayton Chan demonstrates how digital diagnostic devices can measure important clinical features such as speed of opening, swallowing patterns, freeway space and such. We don’t have to guess or approximate we can measure in an accurate, repeatable and scientific manner.

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Digital Diagnostics

June 20, 2011

How do you find decay? Poke the tooth with a sharp stick? How do you pick a shade? Hold up a paint chip and pick what looks the best? How do you measure a perio pocket? Push in a dip stick? How do you check for TMJ problems? Put your fingers over the joint and [...]

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SWIFT MRI for Endo

June 15, 2011

Interesting new technology from DrBicuspid (registration required)
…initial studies, which involved a new MRI technique — sweep imaging with Fourier transform (SWIFT) — found that SWIFT MRI achieved simultaneous visualization of enamel, dentin, and soft tissues in the pulp within clinically relevant scanning times and without the use of ionizing radiation.

via DrBicuspid Imaging.

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Florida Probe New Features in Version 9

June 4, 2011

New Features:
Live Chat Support From Within the Software
6 Completely Customizable Patient Diagnosis Sheets
Epad Digital Signature Capture and Storage for Informed Consent
Ability to Email all Printouts in PDF Format
SQL Server 2005 Express Database
New “Speedpass” Keyboard Function
New Program Icons
Wireless Network Compatibility
Server Configuration Manager Added
New Database Migration Tool for Microsoft Access to SQL Server 2005 Express
Improved “Export to [...]

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$10 million X Prize to be offered to develop a medical Tricorder

May 21, 2011

Yea Baby, That’s what I am talking about! A Tricorder!

The X Prize Foundation and Qualcomm have teamed up to offer a $10 million prize to the first firm that can come up with a mobile medical diagnostic device with accuracy equal to or better than a panel of board certified physicians.
via $10 million X Prize [...]

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Internet Pathology Diagnosis

May 18, 2011

OralpathDx is a new online diagnostic service that was introduced at the CDA. The system was developed by Dr. John Moffat a California general dentist in consultation with numerous pathology specialists.
The system is an online service that takes dentists through a series of questions (called a decision tree by tech types) to determine possible differential [...]

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CS 9300 3D Image System

May 16, 2011

Carestream (Kodak) is showing a new cone beam (CBCT) unit the CS 9300 at CDA. The unit looks like a fancy stand up pano. It is a combination pano and 3D Cone beam similar to the Kodak 9000. Both  machines take pano equivalent images and 3D images. The improvement in the 9300 over the 9000 is the multiple [...]

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Good Bugs Bad Bugs

May 7, 2011

Why do some patients have poor home care, visible plaque and no decay while others try to take great care of their teeth and still get tooth decay? The first answer is, life’s not fair. The second answer is dental caries is not just about plaque in general but is the result of specific bacteria, [...]

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Dental Writer

May 6, 2011

I came across another new product at the Townie meeting except it turns out it isn’t new at all. It is just that Dental Writer from Nierman Practice Management is such a focused niche product I simply hadn’t seen it before. However it does provide a slick solution to what could be an aggravating problem.
A growing [...]

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CBCT Training in Dental Schools

April 26, 2011

Dental schools in the U.S., U.K., and Australia are beginning to adopt cone-beam CT technology into their curricula, but few currently provide training on this equipment to predoctoral and undergraduate students,
Good, more please and faster. Cone Beam 3D CT scans are absolutely amazing!!!  But as general dentists we simply do not have the training to [...]

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Cone Beam CT Comparison

April 15, 2011

Thanks to Conebeam.com for the comprehensive chart linked below. It features 21 different cone beam machines and compares 17 variables like dosage and voxel size.
CBCT Chart | CBCT For Everyone.

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Nomads Donated to Japan

April 5, 2011

I am a big fan of the hand held Nomad X-Ray device just because I believe it is superior technology that improves quality of care while saving money. That being said the Nomad is also a wonderful tool for missionary work and the sad task of forensic identification. In fact the inventor of Nomad, Dr. [...]

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A Smartphone-Enabled Device that Detects Cancer

March 16, 2011

Another article about new technology making diagnosis fast easy and inexpensive. Of course the technology in itself is amazing but what I believe is even more significant is the potential disruption and how technology will fundamentaly change both medicine and dentistry. I have written about this often, (look here for more) the underlying issue is that [...]

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Canary Caries Detection Research

March 10, 2011

The Dr. Bicuspid (registration required) article linked here discusses some recent research into how effective the Canary System from Canada is. I saw the system in Chicago and mentioned it here. Canary detects demineralization and decay up to 5mm below the surface of the tooth. It uses a different scientific method than existing systems like [...]

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The Canary System

February 28, 2011

Seen at Chicago Midwinter
The Canary is a new high tech caries detection device from Canada. It is not yet FDA approved and therefore is not yet for sale in the US. Approval is expected in the next three months. It uses laser energy to detect very early changes in dentin and enamel composition up to 5mm deep into [...]

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CarieScan…Interesting

February 22, 2011
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Did the Singularity Just Happen on Jeopardy?

February 17, 2011

It depends of course on how you define the technological singularity. The linked article refers to the machine, Watson, defeating two human Jeopardy champions.
Knowing a bunch of suff (general knowledge) is not really intelligence. On the other hand the machine can do something none of its creators could do…win at Jeopardy. So is the creation [...]

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Amazing 360 Photography

February 17, 2011

This is amazing…click here to check it out.

Not dental but still well worth seeing. And it does have a potential dental/medical application. Wouldn’t it be great to have a 360 view of a patient’s mouth and or head neck and face. Great for diagnosis and documentation. This 360 photo is in some ways similar to a [...]

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A Quicker Way to Identify Skin Cancer

February 8, 2011

Another interesting new diagnostic. One more step to the Star Trek Tricorder.
The device, called the Verisante Aura, is held above a mole, and uses Raman spectroscopy, a technique that distinguishes molecules using their vibrational states, to scan for those whose relative concentrations are characteristic of melanoma. The device returns a verdict within seconds. Following a [...]

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