Weekly Wisdom: 2 Great Apps to Help You Prescribe Medication

  Dr. Sanj Mohanta recommends using these two apps when prescribing medication for patients in this episode of Weekly Wisdom.     Subscribe to Oral Health’s weekly e-newsletter to have the latest episode delivered straight to your inbox every week!  

To App or Not to App

Technology has made its way to the healthcare industry, changing the way patient care is handled on a variety of levels. Telehealth and teledentistry are two prime examples. Though they were already on the rise, the COVID-19 pandemic created a boom in telehealth, with 46 percent of patients saying they use telehealth for some visits, … Read more

New Mobile App Rewards Good Dental Habits with “Dentacoin”

Dentacare is the second developed tool, serving the mission of Dentacoin, after the successfully launched Trusted Review Platform. The Dentacare Mobile app aims to form long-lasting dental care habits through an intensive 3-month program in an engaging gamified environment. Through reminders, notifications, voice navigation, music accompaniment and tutorials, users are supported on the road to improving their … Read more

Your Dental Practice – Is There an App for That?

Your dental patients are on the go, and they take the internet with them. They are using mobile devices to view your website, check their schedules, and contact your office. Why not make it easy for them with your very own mobile app? WHY YOU NEED AN APP You are always looking for new ways … Read more

“Stop Zombie Mouth” Halloween Capaign Five Million Free Trading Cards in Addition to Free Copies of Plants vs. Zombies

National Oral Health Campaign from the American Dental association and PopCap Games Secures Support from CSPI Director of Nutrition Policy  The American Dental Association® (ADA) and PopCap Games today announced a new tendril of their recently launched “Stop Zombie Mouth” campaign: beginning today, a limited run of one million packs of trading cards featuring characters … Read more

Resorption CBCT Mapping

This was gifted to us by Terry Pannkuk of Santa Barbara, CA. He is one of the most unique endodontic educators in the world and he brings to his efforts, the other gods of the endodontic pantheon. It’s unfortunate that my primary “gold mine” is endodontic, because this exists in all fields of dentistry. Folks … Read more

Adobe Labs Downloads

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta – If you want to experiment with Photoshop for free – this is it!! The world’s best digital image editing software is about to get even better. Explore Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 beta for a sneak preview of some of the incredible performance enhancements, imaging magic, and creativity tools we are working … Read more

Canada Still Leads the World in Online Engagement, Report Suggests

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, March 2, 2012 – in Tech Vibes  Canada continues to lead the world in online enagement, according to new data from comScore. The 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus report reveals that web users spend an average of 45 hours online per month.  The study also found that, while Facebook is … Read more

Hey, you, download it offa my cloud – Mick Jagger, DDS

ST. PAUL, Minn. – (February 29, 2012) – Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. announces new updates to CAESY Cloud, its online patient education portal that gives users access to CAESY Patient Education multimedia presentations via the Cloud. CAESY Cloud 1.2 now gives practices the ability to embed CAESY presentations within their website(s), and also offers a number … Read more

The power of social media

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

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

Apple’s Mac Makeover ‘Mountain Lion’ Software Brings Mobile Features to Mac

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook wants to make its Mac more like an iPhone. CEO Tim Cook said the next version of Apple’s Macintosh OS, “Mountain Lion,” due in late summer, would incorporate features from the software that powers Apple’s hit mobile devices. In an interview at the company’s headquarters here, Mr. … Read more

Ah Stevie, sob, yer still with us….bless ya boyo!!! (468.83 and climbing)

Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple’s iTV While the iTV product remains cloaked in secrecy, sources say Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has approached Rogers and Bell as it actively pursues partnerships with Canadian carriers. “They’re not closed to doing it with one [company] or doing it with two,” said one source who is familiar with … Read more

Apple iPad: Happy 2nd Birthday

Apple changed the way we think about computing and digital devices–again–when it introduced the iPad tablet in early 2010. Take a look back and a peek ahead.  Take a walk through it’s two year history – read article. From the iPHONE, to the ultralight MacBook Air, to the iPAD and cloud computing, Apple has changed dentistry……You … Read more

Lexicomp Launching New Online Interface

Dear Valued Customer, I want to take a moment and share some exciting Lexicomp news with you, one of our valued customers. Very soon, we will be launching a new interface for our Online product — The Next Generation of Lexicomp Online for Dentistry. Re-engineered for increased speed, ease and intelligence, this new interface will … Read more