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Casual Observations of a Hockey Dentist

January 30, 2012

I have been a team dentist for both major and minor league professional hockey teams since 1987. Professional hockey players tend to come from countries smeared across the northern latitudes from Canada to Russia. Each year the medical dental staff provides physicals for all the players including the rookies. The rookies tend to be very [...]

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Dentists on Television – Quiz

January 28, 2012

Interesting: Just for fun.
Dentists in Television Quiz – Characters and Actors.

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CES 2012: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

January 21, 2012

A fun in cheek wrap up of CES 2012 from PC Mag
CES 2012: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

January 13, 2012

From Mike Skramstad Cerec Docs Mentor:
“You don’t mind going slow because you’ve never gone fast!!”
So true in so many areas of high tech.

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Anti-Buzz: Monty Hall

January 10, 2012

In the spirit of the new year, I wrote last week about innovation and how it defies intuition. With the year still pretty new I’d like to keep such lofty ideas in the air. While I’ve waxed philosophic on innovation a few times, there really isn’t some magical strategy that just makes you innovate. In [...]

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If Your Teeth Could Talk

January 5, 2012

From the Wall Street Journal:
Some of the earliest signs of diabetes, cancer, pregnancy, immune disorders, hormone imbalances and drug issues show up in the gums, teeth and tongue—sometimes long before a patient knows anything is wrong.
via If Your Teeth Could Talk … – WSJ.com.
Nothing we don’t know as dentists but it is good to see [...]

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Anti-Buzz: Why Innovation is So Unpredictable

January 3, 2012

The Buzz: The wise observer is able to predict all tech trends.

The Anti-buzz: True innovation is always unpredictable.
Why: Because difficult problems always defy intuition.
Happy New Year! I’ve been at a loss for how to kick off the New Year in anti-buzz fashion. Do I review the past year? Do I make bold predictions about the [...]

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Dental Tech Predictions for 2012

January 2, 2012

I humbly report that my 2011 predictions regarding dentistry and high tech, which can be found here, all proved to be 100% accurate. Knowing it is not possible to improve on that record I am submitting predictions for 2012 that I expect to be 100% wrong.
Knowing these predictions will never come to pass makes them [...]

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Happy 2012

December 31, 2011
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The Top 10 Tech Stories of 2011

December 29, 2011

One of the better year end round ups from PC Mag.
From the TouchPad to the iPad, Steve Jobs to the fictional “iPhone 5,” 2011 had its share of major tech stories.
10. Google +
9. Apple Goes to War Over Patents
8. Netflix
7. What Happened, RIM?
6. HP Wavers on WebOS, Consumer PCs
5. Sony PlayStation Hack
4. AT&T Fails to [...]

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Anti-Buzz: User Training

December 27, 2011

The Buzz: Video Games speak their own language, and not everyone understands.

The Anti-Buzz: Video Games actually live and die by being easy to learn and understand.
If you are a parent, it seems likely that at some point this holiday season your children received that greatest gift of all: video games. There could be a series [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2011
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Tech, Toys and Christmas

December 23, 2011

This infographic from Mashable is interesting for several reasons. It does show the increasing use of technolgy in popular toys. However it is even more captivating as a trip down memory lane. Rubik’s Cubes, Transformers and Furby. What’s not to like?

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Anti-Buzz: Sack of Topics 2011

December 20, 2011

I am playing the role of Santa this week. I have brought you a sack of toys. Well, a sack of topics anyway. There are things in the spirit of this column that don’t really lend themselves to a full article, but I’m itching to address them. So prepare yourself for a series of mini-buzzes.
The buzz: [...]

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Switch

December 14, 2011

What I am Reading Now

Implementing new technology requires change on the part of the dentist and the office team. Sometime it is implementing that change more than anything else that holds us back. This book discusses change and gives some specific ideas on how to do it effectively. Interesting and insightful.

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The 10 Best Shopping Apps to Compare Prices

December 9, 2011

This is a nice compliment to this. Phone apps that let you compare prices while you shop reviewed by PC Mag. Just in time for some weekend shopping.
Shoppers can simply scan a product’s barcode using a smartphone app that pinpoints the lowest prices and shares ratings and reviews from other shoppers.
via The 10 Best Shopping Apps [...]

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Barbados AWC

December 8, 2011

Morning of the AWC Event at The Crane in Barbados

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A High Tech Look at Dental Tourism

December 7, 2011

A link to a new article in Dentalcampare.
What if you could export American quality of care and combine it with a developing world cost platform in a desirable resort destination? You could offer patients a fabulous vacation experience, the opportunity to receive high quality dental care delivered by US trained professionals for less than the [...]

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Resolved: The Average Worker Is Being Left Behind by Technology

December 4, 2011

The linked article is an interesting report from the venerable Oxford Union debating society.
“Technology revolutions always arrive slower than predicted, but quicker than we are prepared for.” In other words, we are always shocked when a revolutionary new technology like the personal computer or the Internet or smartphones or social networks arrives on the scene.
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Teeth and Personality

December 3, 2011

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[Via: Carrington College's Dental Assisting Training Program]

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