Continuing Education

The View from Alexandria

Stars Beyond the Horizon (psssssssst – click on the link above) Joint meeting of the ICOI and the AOIA – double click on the images…….

Will Apple create the all-iPad classroom?

By Sharon Noguchi snoguchi@mercurynews.com Posted:   03/04/2012 06:10:16 AM PST Updated:   03/04/2012 07:22:21 AM PST Apple hopes its foray into digital textbooks for the iPad will impress educators and corner a huge, lucrative K-12 book market. But the high costs of the plan and the challenges of mobile technology could ensure that hardback books remain a classroom … Read more

And a little Kiwi shall lead them to the mountainetop!!!

I’ve been involved with discussion forums for almost 15 years now. What I’ve learned is that there are truly amazing people who care and share and don’t start a conversation with how busy they are or what’s in it for them. Patrick Caldwell is an endude from New Zealand…….check out what he built for endodontists … Read more

The diplomacy of knowledge

We are a geographically a huge country with a population less than the state of California if you count Arnold Schwarzenegger twice…we could have a Canadian dental intranet – iTrans – it would require very little to make itransdental.com the domain name for all Canadian dentists – granted there would have to be Doug.Smith(1-99)@itransdental.com allowed … Read more

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants

I’ll do anything to get this blog’s numbers to skyrocket………sadly, the title is from Chuckles the clown on his passing in the Mary Tyler Moore show, so those of you who are up in arms, “SETTLE DOWN!” Nope, this entry is about http://www.clinicianschoice.com/posecom/pages.php?pageid=46 I want to encourage those who put on CE in Niagara, the Okanagan, … Read more

Biodigital Chumans

http://www.biodigital.com/ 3D learning – whodda thunk it eh hoser????

UBC program emphasizes practice management

By Rosemary Frei, MSc, DrBicuspid.com contributing writer January 19, 2012 — A Canadian university is offering a continuing dental education (CDE) program taught mostly by master of business administration professors that is tailored to dentists’ specific needs as small-business managers. Read full article

They call it “continuing” education for a reason

If you’ve been on the Internet for a while, you realize the concept of viral. You receive endless amounts of “push” informatics.  You can be dismissive and angrily demand to be unsubscribed or  you can review the material, get a sense of source, content, if you’re into graphics and such, admire the design and if … Read more

6th Annual American Dental Implant Association Symposium

6th Annual American Dental Implant Association Symposium Four Seasons Hotel Las Vagesa Nevada April 13 – 14 2012 Pre – symposium April 12 2012 General Sessions April 13 7:45 – 8:00 Welcome 8:30 – 9:00 Keiichi Naruse, DDS – Vertical Ridge Augmentation 9:00 – 9:45 Rhys Spoor, DDS – Implant and Aesthetic Synergy: Creating Higher … Read more

Megatrends in dental education

As technologic change innovates and disrupts the dental service mix, it seems odd that dental education is lagging so seriously behind the innovation and sophistication of product and equipment evident in all the dental disciplines.  Why would anyone advocate learning cone beam tomography in a classroom setting, CEREC in a classroom setting, why does INVISALIGN … Read more

You’ll never walk alone, Bridge over troubled water, Two of us

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

Treatment Planning and Placement of Dental Implants Continues to Change with Computer Guided Dentistry

From Cosmetic News Traditionally, the placement of dental implants has been an intuitive process. However, recent advancements in three-dimensional diagnostic and treatment technologies, has substantially changed the approach of clinicians to the treatment planning and placement of dental implants. Improvements in three-dimensional imaging, and greater access to proprietary 3D implant planning software, now allow for … Read more

There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review

IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more

Introducing Dental Students to Evidence-Based Decisions in Dental Care

How do we move beyond basic technical fundamentals which are the mainstay of salesforce based education into more purposeful and relevant self-directed learning……….I plan on approaching the author of this paper with the hope that he will contribute to this blog. In this author’s opinion, dentistry must expansively embrace comprehensive reasoning to prevent being diminished … Read more

There are two moons in the night sky! Elimination of industry support for CME

Someone finally realized that you can’t suck and blow at the same time…it’s long overdue for organized dentistry to do the same…… …Something huge happened at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting. Although the meaning of what happened will be spun throughout the blogosphere, twittersphere, and schmuckosphere, the bottom line is that the … Read more

Woh, oh-oh, woh-oh, woh-oh, woh-oh-woh Montego Bay

You thirst to be thirsty in Montego Bay……. SCOTTSDALE, AZ,USA: The American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics (AAIP) will hold its 29th annual meeting on Nov. 6 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in association with Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine and the Jamaica School of Oral Health Science. The theme of the meeting will be “Back … Read more