Dental X-rays may help dentists collect essential information about oral health, but a new study is raising questions about their safety. The new research links regular dental imaging to one of the most common types of brain tumors and suggests adults who were regularly exposed to X-rays in the past, before dosages were lowered, might have … Read more
Dedicated to every teacher who cares enough to change the system, and to every student brave enough to stand up and speak up. http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf This is endlessly long, but I dedicate this to anyone who looks at the PROCESS regardless of whether it’s governance, profession, industry or education, stops, ponders, takes a moment and then … Read more
I urge you to read the following op-ed piece from Paul Krugman of the New York Times (click on NYTIMES) first and then relate it to the text and subtext of this entry. I encourage it because of the experiences incurred from developing this blog and trying to give it relevance and impact on the Canadian … Read more
I sincerely hope that the reason for sharing this YOU TUBE video with dentists is understood. We are so incredibly fortunate to do what we do. We are autonomous, even the insanity of the “ya can’t treat your spouse” law that will probably be on the books ten years from now or about the time … Read more
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: February 4, 2012 – Sunday Review – NY Times A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight. So it proved to be: the studio buckled. And therein lies a story of how new Internet tools are allowing very ordinary people to defeat … Read more
Dentistry does not exist in a parallel universe to the rest of humanity – it will either learn to extrapolate, iterate, evolutionate, migrate, or potentiate or it will constipate, obfuscate, and obliterate it’s capacity to keep abreast of the rapidly exploding demands of generational standards of care that are now measured in months, not decades. … Read more
Please note – this entry is not being written to be dismissive or derisive. It is simply to demonstrate that the chasm between getting an email from a Provincial Association or a Provincial Licensing Body without some mechanism for interactive dialogue to fully comprehend the implications, scope and mechanism for implementation of legislation is potentially … Read more
I’m almost finished reviewing the Accessibility Act. There is nothing wrong with the concept, but I am forever in awe of the legislative process and how Joseph Hellerish it is. That the spirit of Yossarian leads every committee in history or infuses the titular head is without exemption the sine qua non of how to … 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
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
It’s raining in Hogtown today, thus a holi – day for a visit to the gym, a trip to the local no name coffee shop (Starbucks has tar and Tim’s is embroiled in a franchisee class action – won’t cross a picket line) and a iPad news review. Three things jump off the screen. None … Read more