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Guide to Digital Radiography

February 6, 2012

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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Reputational Management

January 23, 2012

Following is an excerpt from my Dentrix Magazine Article.

If you do find some negative malicious reviews what can you do? Actually it is easier to tell you what not to do.
Don’t Sue: As reported in the ADA News Dr. Yvonne Wong decided to file suit when she received a negative review on Yelp which she [...]

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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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Is Email Dead?

December 30, 2011

If you read this PC Magazine article…
Frankly, email is wasteful. Sure, it doesn’t require chopping down trees like paper mail, but it creates a mess of data that often winds up in the hands of people who don’t need it.
via Is Email Dead? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
The author is not saying that personal [...]

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Help with Data Overload

December 29, 2011

What did we do before Google and the “Information Super Highway”? When it came to information, that is finding a fact or checking on some relevant data, we either went to a library, (where finding the information was theoretically possible but often difficult) we relied on our memory of general stuff or most often we [...]

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Sure, but what’s the hard part?

December 21, 2011

 Seth Godin makes the point that in any job the hard part is the part we don’t want or like to do more so than it is the part that takes the most pure effort, skill or time.
In my experience many dentists enjoy the clinical aspects of dentistry; the skill of using our hands, the precision and attention [...]

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Dentistry Today CE Leaders

December 19, 2011

Thank You. I was privileged to be chosen as one of the top dental CE Leaders for 2012 by Dentistry Today.

Emmott, Lawrence F..

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HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite

December 5, 2011

Dentists often ask about touch screens for the treatment rooms. I am not sure this is a good idea. Touch screens offer some minimal asepsis benefits but require the user to go to the screen to enter data or access something, like an x-ray and I believe the actual work-flow of a treatment room is [...]

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ADA News Article

November 23, 2011

The current edition of the ADA News has an article on the LOC. That is the lectures series set right on the exhibit floor. It is a really great article because it has a picture of me!!
Article here:

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Good-With-Computers, Part Three: User Types

October 18, 2011

The buzz: If we just had kids at work all our computer problems would be solved
The anti-buzz: The workforce user knows more than they think they do.
A recap of parts one and two:
Technophiles ie. (good-with-computers), are good at abstract thinking and problem solving.
Technophobes, (bad-with-computers), fear both failure and success.
If the above sounds strange to you, [...]

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Patients Like E-mail

September 29, 2011

Did you know?
58% of consumers start their online day by reading their emails.
76% of dental patients said email is the best way for companies to communicate with them.
This is based on a 2008 Sesame Communications research paper. Most likely today even more of your patients prefer e-mail.
So the question is…are you using it? Or even [...]

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Dental Rat & DPR

September 23, 2011

My write up on the Dental Rat for DPR can be found here.
Dental Rat was chosen by the Pride Institute and an expert panel as one of the “Best of Class” technologies. Look for the Pride display at the ADA Meeting. I will be presenting two sessions on emerging technologies.

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Digital Radiography Myths

September 21, 2011

 
 

Myth:
The thinnest sensors are the most comfortable.
Fact: This seems to make sense but on examination it is just silly. With this logic pressing a knife blade into your hand would be more comfortable than pressing a spoon. After all, the knife is thinner. Within the range of all sensors on the market, that is 2-4mm [...]

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Sensors for Dummies

September 7, 2011

A corded sensor has three basic elements. First is a scintillator. When x-rays impact the scintillator it fluoresces, creating a very precise pattern of light.

Many, but not all, sensors have an optical fibre. It transmits the light from the scintillator screen to the chip and protects the chip from x-rays.
A solid state computer chip receives [...]

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Cloud Computing: The Layperson’s Guide

August 31, 2011

There is probably no bigger “buzz word” in technology right now that “cloud computing”. It is used to mean many different things depending on who is using it. The original meaning has been stretched past the breaking point.
As dentists we are and will be presented with “cloud” solutions. If we expect to make good technology [...]

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Epson Perfection V700 Good Choice for X-Ray Scanner

August 17, 2011

The best way to digitize film radiographs is to scan them with a flatbed desktop scanner. The scanner needs to have a “Transparency Adapter”. This is a device which allows users to shine a light through a transparent object in order to scan it. Transparency adapters were devised primarily for scanning 35 mm slides but work just [...]

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Googling for Dentists

July 28, 2011

The only way to be sure you will appear on the first page of Google is to buy it. More or less.
That is you buy an ad and you Pay Per Click, PPC. The ad will appear in a Google search as a “sponsored link” based on the “keywords” you have bid on. [...]

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Quick Scan Low Dose 3D

July 25, 2011

Imaging Sciences, the i-Cat folks, have released a new low radiation 3D scan called Quick Dose. Quick Dose can provide the user with a full 3D image with a radation dose of 27 uSv. This compares to a typical digital pan which has a dose of 24 uSv. There is always a trade off with radiation [...]

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Who owns that phone?

June 22, 2011

The linked article by law professor Glen Reynolds discusses the recent kerfuffle with Apple possibly attempting to control the use of iPhone video.
It also raises a question of ownership. When Americans buy an iPhone or other gadget, we tend to think that, since we paid for it, we actually, you know, own it. But the [...]

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Breakthrough in Digital Impressions with Ultra Sonics

June 13, 2011

I believe that digital impressions will be the next big thing in digital high tech dentistry. The linked DrBicuspid article discusses breakthroughs in the technology that help eliminate the issues of blood and saliva on the teeth. Amazing.
While light-based intraoral scanning systems offer many advantages over conventional impressioning, they still have one great disadvantage: Moisture, [...]

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