In honour of Steve Jobs

As dentists, we tend to be linear and procedural. While we do micromanage, the visionary component of our practice is far too often left to management gurus who simply by nature have to sell a generic message. Fortunately, our generation has had a visionary who sees trends long before they happen and whose single mindedness … Read more

Is it time for the cloud to come to your practice?

From Dental Economics by Martin Jablow Dental technology continues to move forward. Slow speed belt driven handpieces have given way to precision electric handpieces. Impressions can now be taken with a camera. We are replacing a scalpel with a laser. The time is here to considering moving from the traditional dental practice management client/server arrangement … Read more

Cloud or server to store your images?

The next few years are going to see a radical paradigm shift in store, especially as 3D images exponentiate in the dental world. As always, you predict trends by watching how the mainstream is adapting….whether it says dental or not, a business model is a business model and a societal shift is a societal shift. … Read more

HP finishes Paul McCartney’s private digital library

What does this have to do with the future of dentistry and how your office functions????EVERYTHING!!! With the increasing digitization of records as offices go paperless, as they store cbCT images, the increasing creation of clinical images for case documentation, patient education material, whatever, the term TERABYTES is now in the lexicon of most practices. … Read more