From the category archives:

Theraputics

Regrow Your Own Teeth

February 1, 2012

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

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Technological Healing

January 11, 2012

A review of the new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care.
Nanosensors patrolling your bloodstream for the first sign of an imminent stroke or heart attack, releasing anticlotting or anti-inflammatory drugs to stop it in its tracks. Cell phones that display your vital signs and take [...]

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The High Tech Power Practice

January 9, 2012

I will be presenting a half day program at the Yankee Dental Congress January 28, 2012
Everyday dentists are faced with remarkable new high tech products that do everything from finding caries to making a crown. Digital technology is revolutionizing every aspect of dental practice including how we make clinical decisions and how we communicate. A [...]

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The Digital Dental Tourist

January 4, 2012

If you are planning to travel for a medical or dental procedure why not travel to a fabulous vacation destination like a Caribbean Island? In the past the answer was, well of course, if given a choice I would rather travel to Barbados than to Cleveland but Cleveland is where the world renowned high quality [...]

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New fee coming for medical effectiveness research

December 30, 2011

 Another hidden provision of the new health care law as reported by AP.
Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. But what will Americans do with the answers?
via New fee coming for medical effectiveness [...]

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“Super memory pill”

December 28, 2011

WOW!
Scientists have isolated a gene in mice that works to give them “super memories” and reverses the course of several degenerative mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s.
via “Super memory” pill–and possibly an Alzheimer’s cure–could be around the corner | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News.

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Digital Referrals

December 9, 2011

Follow the link to an article I wrote for the AZ Dental Journal Inscriptions. The article is on paperless or digital specialty referrals.
http://www.azda.org/Inscriptions/2011Dec/index.html#/36/

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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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E4D Compass™

November 4, 2011

The first really cool thing I found at the 3D Congress is E4D Compass.
E4D Compass imports data from the leading cone beam systems … and aligns the data with scans of the operative field via an E4D Dentist Scan of hard and soft tissues, models or impressions.
via E4DSky – Dentistry’s Destination – E4D Compass™.

The software is [...]

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Mind-Blowing Augmented Reality

November 4, 2011

The linked article discusses Augmented Reality in general terms.
The ability to quickly build and track a 3D model of the environment is combined with the ability to display synthetic information onto the real environment. The result? The digital simulation of the world is overlaid on the world, in real time…
via More Mind-Blowing Real-World Kinect Interaction [...]

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The 5th International Congress on 3-D Dental Imaging

November 2, 2011

Starts Friday
I went to this last year and I will be going again this year.

It was well worth the investment of time and money. If you are new to CBCT, if you are a veteran user or if you are considering this amazing technology this meeting will be valuable.
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Filling without Drilling

October 21, 2011

Hmmm
…according to researchers at the University of Leeds who have developed a revolutionary new way to treat the first signs of tooth decay. Their solution is to arm dentists with a peptide-based fluid that is literally painted onto the tooth’s surface…
“This may sound too good to be true, but we are essentially helping acid-damaged teeth [...]

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E4D Sky Network

October 12, 2011

News from the ADA Annual Session:
Just last month I wrote this:
What I like best about the Cerec  AC is that at this time it is the only system that can function as an impression only system similar to iTero or Lava and then can be upgraded to a full chairside CAD CAM unit.
That is no longer [...]

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E4D CAD CAM

October 6, 2011
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To Mill or Not to Mill Cerec AC

September 30, 2011

 What I like best about the Cerec  AC is that at this time it is the only system that can function as an impression only system similar to iTero or Lava and then can be upgraded to a full chairside CAD CAM unit.
So you can get started with digital impressions for 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of [...]

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Cerec & DPR

September 19, 2011

My write up on the Cerec Bluecam for DPR can be found here:
The Cerec AC Bluecam system was chosen by the Pride Institute panel as one of the best technologies of 2011. Look for the Pride booth at the ADA in Vegas. I will be presenting several sessions on Emerging Technologies.

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Scientists develop sutureless method for joining blood vessels

September 8, 2011

Glue instead of sutures.
Scientists develop sutureless method for joining blood vessels.

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Painless Protein Scaffold Lets Cavity-Ridden Teeth Re-Grow From the Inside Out

August 27, 2011

Hmmm
When it’s applied to a decayed tooth, this peptide paste forms a gelatinous scaffold that attracts calcium, enabling the tooth to rebuild itself from within.
via Painless Protein Scaffold Lets Cavity-Ridden Teeth Re-Grow From the Inside Out | Popular Science.

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If Hamlet was a Dentist would he use CAD-CAM?

August 24, 2011

To mill or not to mill that is the question.
For all kinds of reasons digital impressions are better than goo impression.  Until recently you only had two choices once you acquired a digital impression. You could design a restoration and mill it out in your office (CAD-CAM), or you could send the digital impression to [...]

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Crown vs. Sledgehammer

August 22, 2011

Not high tech, at least not digital but definitely dental and definitely cool.

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