Why Use Social Media for Your Dental Practice

The impact of today’s technology on your business… Social Networking is the dialogue used by one or all of the above to converse, communicate and contribute online. Social networking can re-connect someone with their past, update today’s world on your daily events, share opinions, experiences and insights to a virtual friendship that can reach many … Read more

Kerr Asks “What Music Works Best in a Dentist’s Office?”

Kerr Corporation, a leading manufacturer of innovative dental products, has posted a detailed investigative report about the music heard in dental offices.  The article explores recent trends in what music is played at dental practices and includes interviews with a number of experts on the subject. Titled “What Music Works Best in a Dentist Office?” … Read more

The Digital Operatory

Over the past few columns of The Digital Dentist, we have examined some of the technologies that are part of the digital office, specifically looking at data backup, virus protection, an overview of digital radiography, and monitors. There is no doubt that of all these technologies, digital radiography appears to be generating the most interest … Read more

Monitor Madness

As dentists transition towards a modern dental practice, many of them realize the value and benefits of placing computers in the operatory. Many practices now have computers in the treatment rooms. One of the issues that has created resistance is the confusion over proper positioning of the monitors. In this issue of The Digital Dentist, … Read more

Operatory Design

In previous articles, we have examined some of the technologies that are part of the digital office, specifically looking at data backup, virus protection, an overview of digital radiography, and monitors. There is no doubt that of all these technologies, digital radiography appears to be generating the most interest right now. While choosing digital sensors … Read more

Hapy Bear Surgery Center Effortlessly Transitions to Electronic Health Records by using the Plustek MobileOffice AD450

Plustek scanners help pediatric dental center to go paperless  HapyBearSurgeryCenter is a pediatric sedation dental office that provides general anesthesia to dental patients referred to them by over 200 dental offices. Hapy Bear has been serving patients in the Central Valley of California since 1997. In 2010 they moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art surgery … Read more

For those of you who truly think outside the box!!!

Forget websites, forget social media/networking…….BE CLEVER, BE UNIQUE http://www.youtube.com/user/samsungmobileusa Watch this YOU TUBE clip and then ask yourself; if I change the product to say SMILES….line of folks waiting to get into a “dental office” – one incredibly cool guy and gal walking down the street smiling and laughing – outside the line, close up … 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

Renovating your office and don’t have a clue

Most of us may be practicing longer than we thought thanks to the economy, or not, but the look and feel of our offices are very much the focus of customer service. As always, in that this week is dedicated to the world that Steve Jobs built, I offer you six APP’s which can turn … Read more

Surgically Clean Air

Once upon a time –  it was possible to feel like you were trying to keep your home clean and getting away from all of the pollution on earth just by staying inside your house and keeping the doors and windows closed? When you’re in your own residence, you get to control the quality of the … Read more

Building the perfect beast

Dental office design in this technologic era no longer looks to Roger Miller‘s King of the Road for blueprint layout Image via Wikipedia Trailers for sale or rentRooms to let…fifty cents.No phone, no pool, no petsI ain’t got no cigarettesAh, but..two hours of pushin’ broomBuys an eight by twelve four-bit roomI’m a man of means … Read more

No. 36/No. 19 – Website innovations and Office design

Spent Friday afternoon at the AGO – Musee des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario for our Francophone readers.  Exhibition on Abstract Expressionists, Jack the Dripper Pollock, Mark Rothko, de Kooning, Newman and Krasner et al……just brilliant.  But i Image via Wikipedia t was Rothko who stunned me the most. Always been a fan, but it was the … Read more