Why You Should Join Instagram

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I was reluctant to join Instagram (also called IG or Insta). I thought I was too old, too busy and that it wouldn’t add any value to my life. I expected it to be a platform where people show off filtered photos of themselves. I expected that it would be a mind-numbing way to pass … Read more

Two Vital Points to Remember for Online Dental Marketing

The primary goal of your online dental marketing campaign should be to disseminate information, educate the readers and deliver real value. When the focus is on helping the patients through your dental website, blog, social media and other online efforts, it will eventually help build a robust online reputation, build relationships, and translate into growing … Read more

How to Achieve High Rankings in Facebook Search?

With over a billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the social media behemoth that is hard to ignore. Small businesses and professionals can leverage the power of Facebook to their marketing advantage. Many people use Facebook Graphic Search to get more information out about relevant products or services they may be looking for. … Read more

Cat-a-Van Reading Tour Hits the Road to Get Kids Reading, Brushing

NEA, Renaissance Dental celebrate Read Across America by asking students to grab their hats and read with the Cat WASHINGTON, Feb. 2014 – The Cat in the Hat is back, and he’s revving up his engines to get kids excited about reading—and brushing their teeth! This year’s official Read Across America celebrations will start in Seuss-tastic … Read more

Force the issue! DEMAND knowledge networks!! You are the POWER!!!

Please read this article on the concept of  ONLINE IVY UNIVERSITIES. The next time a company invites you to a product-centric webinar, answer them thusly:  “Critical thinking and comprehensive care are the sine qua non of logical, science based treatment planning. I appreciate the need for your company to meet bottom line expectations for its … Read more

Zest Anchors locator pivoting technology available on the MIS SEVEN and Mistral Implants

Uploaded by MISimplantsCanada on Mar 30, 2012 LOCATOR Attachments are designed with customizable levels of retention and a low vertical profile. Most important, however, is its innovative ability to pivot, which increases the attachment’s resiliency and tolerance for the high mastication forces an attachment must withstand, allows it to compensate for the path of insertion even with up … Read more

Porcelain Veneer Series

Terrific YOUTUBE series on porcelain veneers and an article from an outstanding practitioner in Turkey. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QALc88UEPEE[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riRLWpHAkxs[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNSuCh4Mys[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcwaTheYDOY[/youtube] http://www.slideshare.net/kendo160/the-scienceandartofporcelainveneersbysmile4d – Please share this with colleagues and direct them to MOUTHING OFF……the Internet has provided a literal treasure trove of material to share and a new frontier for learning. And this just popped up on GOOGLE … Read more

Clog – Ridge preservation – animation

Many of you generate YOUTUBE vignettes, have PowerPoint or Keynote presentations to share. You are encouraged to do so…..either send them to me through DropBox or I’ll send you the USER ID and Password to the SlideShare being used for the MOUTHING OFF BLOG.  Content begins with a small stone thrown into a pool, the … Read more

We be cloggin’ and slide sharin’

Tryin’ somethin’ new for the peeps – Slide Share – since we can’t get the folks to send six or eight images and a few lines of texts, perhaps, they’ll Slide Share from the Moody Blues song Steppin’ in a Slide Zone…play it last or as it lays. Here’s some fun stuff from me amigo in … 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

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

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

Good onya Nobel Biocare – enewsletter resumes

After a decade-long hiatus,  the publication of Nobel Biocare News resumes. In this first issue—and every issue that follows—we intend to introduce innovations and disclose trends, as we share the stories and experiences of our readers with the global dental community. The patient first From the very beginning, back when Nobel Biocare was known as Nobelpharma, the … Read more

How will we learn as a profession?

strategy-education-s-technology-dilemma_3375478 How much longer can CE providers delude themselves into thinking that real time didactic learning is cost and cognition effective. The ability to provide material online, streaming audio/video in advance of a program, the facility for intranet development to ensure CONTINUING education, the capacity for inclusion of video clips, animations et al to update … Read more