The future of marketing for companies and for us as well……….3D – whodda thunk it eh hoser………. http://www.jiacd.com/featured-cases/biomet-3i-ar-next-step-interactive-marketing Staff 15 APR 2011 Palm Beach Gardens, FL (April 11, 2011) – Continuing its leadership role in social media strategy for the dental community, BIOMET 3i is pleased to announce the next step in interactive experiences with … Read more
Religious holidays in December Masa’il Christmas Chanukah Tohji-taisai Gahambar Maidyarem Kwanzaa Sharaf First of Muharram Ashura Yule Anniversary of passing of Zarathustra New Year’s Wish To see this blog expand to include Consort Research announcements, basic research inclusions and case report abundance in all facets of comprehensive care!!!! Happy Holidays!
Intriguing blog and recent posting of links – from lad I’ve never met on LinkedIn – good info – ah the power of social networking – and it’s NOT encrypted!! LinkedIn Mark Friashas sent you a message. Date:12/19/2011Subject: EtchMaster Product Review 1. Etchmaster Product Review. As a hygienist I use this product (with the aluminum oxide … Read more
Last week this blog finally went to a WordPress platform and networking links are now present on the postings to various social media sites. It’s taken a long time to get here and hopefully www.facebook.com/oralhealth will be arriving in the twinkle of a Christmas light, Chanukah candle and an eye. The method in the madness … Read more
Journal of Oral Implantology – with obvious implications for the endodontically needy hot tooth Hasan A ALTUG, Metin SENCIMEN, Altan VAROL, Necdet DOGAN, Necdet KOCABIYIK, and Aydin GULSES, DDS PhD Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gülhane Military Medical Academy ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the anesthetic efficacy of mylohyoid … Read more
Several months back, Dentsply International purchased Astra Tech Dental from Astra Zeneca to the tune of almost 2 billion Euro. Not much has been heard, ne’er a discouraging word since. In putting this forum to bed for the year, I was searching for Dental Trends in 2012. Part of this was inspired by watching the … Read more
It’s Sunday at 6 am. Used to be the New York Times on the stoop, now it’s the Nespresso machine and updating the iPAD APP for the NYTimes. That’s platform agnostics in the accrual of informatics through the myriad of mechanisms delivering knowledge. It is this evolution from publisher to knowledge deliverer that has intrigued … Read more
December 17th, 2011 by Felasfa Wodajo, M.D. in News One of the major announcements at last week’s mHealth Summit was made by Qualcomm who introduced a new platform for wirelessly connecting medical devices. The 2net platform abstracts away the details of connecting a sensor to a cloud-based server. Right now, if a company develops a great lightweight sensor … Read more
In the Internet world, have committees become obsolete, do we need to tolerate the failure to be transparent in governance, informed after the fact rather than being encouraged to be our own advocates during the due diligence and discussion process. Why has Canadian dentistry not built it’s own Internet…..encryption, iTrans, collegial communication, connectivity keep being … Read more
Don’t want the academics in Canada to feel left out. Rebecca J. Rosen – from the Atlantic – DEC 16 2011 A new program can find and compare relationships in complicated data without having to be asked specific queries Are there subtle patterns lurking in data that can foretell of a coming financial-system crash? What can explain … Read more
It’s not encryption per se that is agitating me, it’s the implementation of the mandate and the cost considerations, particularly if iTrans doesn’t meet the standard, which would require a simple comment to clarify. What I can find is from the US OF COURSE, nothing in Canada or Ontario to be found………….The second article is … Read more
Have tried the honey technique to get folks to chatter about impending encryption issues in Ontario for inter-collegial communication, but to no avail, to no email as well. Take a gander at the iTrans promo piece from the JayZCDA (bolded up and italicized – you know why)……….then ask yourself why it’s being recommended for communication … Read more
Abstract DE van Diermen et al From JADA – Dec 2011 Background. For many years, international guidelines have advised health care professionals not to adjust oral antithrombotic medication (OAM) regimens before invasive dental procedures. The authors conducted a study to examine the opinions of Dutch general dentists regarding the dental care of patients receiving treatment with … Read more
http://www.snoringisntsexy.com/ Dentistry’s role in the recognition and management of snoring and sleep apnea is largely unknown by the public despite the fact that oral appliance therapy has been approved as first-line therapy for mild to moderate sleep apnea and in cases where the patient cannot tolerate or prefers not to utilize a medically prescribed CPAP … Read more
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Volume 69, Issue 12 , Pages e506-e512, December 2011 Purpose Achieving primary implant stability in areas with poor bone density is often challenging to the clinician. Previous research has suggested that modified surgical protocols might be beneficial in such situations. The objective of the present clinical study was to evaluate … Read more
In the pre-show (yawn) before Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – as enticing as Downton Abbey – there was a commercial for the Xbox Kinect. The flood of iPAD Cloud based dental APPS has become a tsunami, yet suddenly it became apparent that they were already “yesterday’s news”. Imagine a dental program where using voice and … Read more
TRAUMA FRACTURE CBCT – see images below I suggest extract the tooth place an implant and save the patient from a bunch of speculation and conjecture. The patient only wants a tooth and an implant will give them that predictably. Andrew W Kelly -IMPLANTOLOGIST ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– I have posted this case earlier and wanted to show the CBCT of the … Read more
We should all dream of the day when the title reads “A closer look at the six women who matter in dentistry; the glass ceiling shatters!” Last week, FORBES released its annual “World’s Most Powerful People” list, spotlighting a diverse cross section of influencers including business and political leaders, spiritual figures as well as today’s opinion makers. Of those … Read more
What did Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paul Simon and Lennon and McCartney know that dentistry is just learning to appreciate; that social networking can work wonders if you extrapolate with Bayesian objectivity. “You and I have memories/longer than road that stretches out ahead”, applies to relationships, not learning. Blended learning describes an algorithm that combines different … Read more
From Mark Dreyer of the ROOTS forum……it’s what this blog needs from y’all……… Hope it isn’t too much bandwidth, but I thought I’d save these as single images so as to see the cbct slices better. Visit 2 he was better but not feeling good enough for me to be comfortable completing. I placed ledermix as … Read more