By Stuart J. Oberman, Esq from Dental Tribune – August 12, 2011 For a practicing dentist who aims to always deliver high-quality patient care, staff retention is an important value. Staff retention aids the dental practice in providing stability and continuity and eliminates the high costs associated with employee turnover. Obviously, staff members are more … Read more
OMG, OMG!!! By COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit June 2, 2011 The American obsession with dental hygiene has taken an ironic turn over the past decade. In an attempt to have the bright, white, healthy-looking smile of the stars, many consumers are bleaching their teeth into oblivion. Dentists call this addiction to whitening “bleachorexia,” calling the overbleachers “bleach junkies.” … Read more
Kerr SonicFill Evaluation is Complete – a game changer if’n there e’er was one….. For about the past 5 months, I’ve been using/evaluating the Kerr SonicFill system. In a nutshell, I’m endorsing the product with my highest recommendation. If you’ve been looking for a way to streamline your composite procedures, look no further. The investment … Read more
There are so many things going on in this world that are not perceived as impacting on dental practice, BUT THEY ARE!!! There is absolutely nothing wrong, in fact, it’s an emotional mandate that as professionals, we must grow more and more skilled on a daily basis. It’s consistent with the concept of professionalism. But … Read more
From Dental Tribune – by Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Dental Medicine August 1, 2011 JERUSALEM,Israel: The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem has a new International Postgraduate Orthodontic Program and invites applications. The program,taught entirely in English, begins 1 March 2012 and is open to dentists who hold a DDS or … Read more
I wish to share an example of what all of us at Oral Health hope will become a standard of sharing and caring by Canadian dentists. This case is online with Cosmetic Tribune, one of the incredible publications from Dental Tribune International which includes Dental Tribune Study Club – www.dtstudyclub.com. The format being laid out … Read more
It is estimated that smartphones will be 28 percent of all phones sold this year (2011) – that’s 420 MILLION – with an M – what does this mean to your practice and your ability to market your services….as repeatedly pointed out…………..EVERYTHING Read article Then take a read from this blog posting on Modern Dental … Read more
From Dr. Bicuspid Team July 26, 2011 — In response to concerns over the degradation of titanium implants, researchers from the University of Oviedo in Spain have developed a highly sensitive method to determine the levels of titanium in human blood (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, July 22, 2011). Read article Related articles Heavy metal: Titanium implant … Read more
From Dental Health Hub Imaging – July 26, 2011 A CT x-ray study to be published in Implant Dentistry in 2011 suggests that the posterior superior alveolar artery is larger in males than females and is closer to the alveolar crest in the molar regions. Authors JH Kim and colleagues from the Department of Prosthodontics, College of Dentistry at Yonsei University, … Read more
It’s continuing unabated and it will radically change the dental landscape in marketing, practice management and dental education. You don’t need to be an IT expert, you can hire those, but you need to have the vision and to see the implications for your future in terms of patient CONNECTIVITY. The same will hold with … Read more
Albeit, the free trip would be to East Kobakonk….nonetheless… Win a free trip to New York City and join us for the Dental Tribune Awards Dental Tribune is the largest dental newspaper worldwide, published in more than 25 languages with a readership of 650,000+ dentists, and it is one of the best known brands in … Read more
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Green, green, they say, on the far side of the hill From John Flucke’s technology blog Even dentists hate toothpaste tubes. They aren’t very efficient which means they are wasteful. They are also messy and sometimes hard to control. However, I think Designers Sang Min Yu and Wong Sang Lee are onto something here with their … Read more
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Series of YOU TUBE vignettes by Yvan Tesolin……..build the buzz, build the brand Click on the YOU TUBE logo and watch the entire series and then PONDER!!!! http://www.centredentairetesolin.com In Montreal Canada and faced with finding the right dental implants for your dental cosmetic smile reconstruction? What dental implants do you choose? Dr. Yvan Tesolin,local Montreal dentist … Read more
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With the explosion of digitally related technologies, they may well have to add a 5th year to dental school for IT and social media. I wish that Mac was as pervasive in dentistry as it is becoming in the real world, however, tis not so. Fortunately, I chose to ignore the demon seed of Windows … Read more
Hmmmmmmm – From Dentistry IQ Jul 10, 2011 “The McGill Advisory” is forecasting continued improvement for dental practices in 2011, as the economy continues to slowly recover. The stock market rally has continued, erasing all of the 2008-2009 decline. Meanwhile, interest rates have remained very low by historical standards. Job creation is rising and layoffs … Read more
How do you discern truth, fact? What is real any longer in a world and a profession that seems geared to bells and whistles? If you read the websites and the association newsletters, everywhere in the dental world, it is a landscape of milk and honey, manna from heaven is on every slow food dental … Read more
First it was certification for small FOV cbCT and now I hear it’s email encryption from the RCDSO…………………………………..that’s the sound of a tree falling in the forest when there is no one around to hear it….did it make a sound or not………ah CONNECTIVITY – we hardly knew yee, cuz while CONTENT MAY BE KING, CONNECTIVITY … Read more