A individual in attendance at an Ontario Dental Association meeting last evening was told, that unless email messages pertaining to patients are sent “encrypted” between colleagues, they are in essence inappropriate, perhaps illegal and tantamount to violation of the Piracy (excuse me) Privacy Act. I have on numerous occasions tried to turn this blog into … Read more
I’m driven by a passion for the use of the Internet and all it’s tricks and toys to learn faster, more pervasively and eliminate the clear and present danger of hired gunslingers, paid advocates and pseudo-arms length royalty accruing purveyors of the “next best thing”. In the process of finding relevant material for this blog, … Read more
I’m in the midst of building a Wiki for the ROOTS forum……it’s become impossible to keep any semblance of order with the explosive number of blogs that are appearing minute by minute in the dental world. There has to be a central node – nothing exists without a hub. (as an aside, since no one … Read more
This blog is a flyspeck on the corporate flowchart of the company that includes Oral Health as one of it’s assets. I’m told however, when I hector the folks that run it to give me the analytics (10 hectors for one incomplete answer), that it draws a considerable number of hits to the OH website. … Read more
Time to reframe this blog. The icanaden forum recently discussed this very issue – hopefully, someone who reads this, the two or three of your who do, may know someone on icanaden. If we use the rule of six degrees of separation, then perhaps Dr. Limeback will either share a blog posting or a comment. … Read more
Since 1998, I have been a member of a forum called ROOTS. It has provided me with daily collegial education ever since. Like any discussion forum, there is the usual coterie of egos, flaming and silliness. But, like anything where the sum is greater than the parts, it soldiers on and daily, we learn, we … Read more
From Dental IQ – June 3, 2011 HATFIELD, Pennsylvania–The 3D Imaging Institute, sponsored by Imaging Sciences International, has announced the latest addition to its curriculum of 3-D dentistry events: the Live 3D Dentistry Forum. Image via Wikipedia To read more about Imaging Sciences, go to Imaging Sciences. The clinical event combines lectures, live scans, real-time surgical,and … Read more
2011-12-12 14:28:54
Just received this in the email moments ago……..have been looking for comments to be posted to this blog as the intention is to take the email blasts we receive from companies which invariably are posted to any number of dental blogs and reframe them as a Clinical eChronicle. While it’s exciting to see these innovations, … Read more
“The Root Canal Anatomy Project” is being shared with Oral Health and those who enjoy this blog by members of the ROOTS forum. It is my most evanescent hope that others from the dental community in Canada and elsewhere will begin to contribute content to this forum and turn it into an educational powerhouse. Social … Read more
I’d like to reinforce the concept of how this blog can evolve into an e-CASE REPORT section on www.oralhealthjournal.com – won’t get into too many details, however, there is serious discussion with a very well known company that produces extraordinary animations and has a wealth of discussion forum, website design and patient education background. The … Read more
Calcium hydroxide goes in and out of vogue in endodontics more often than Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan are in and out of rehab….speaking of rehab, whatever happened to Amy Winehouse? The ROOTS forum had an extended string this week about calcium hydroxide which prompted me to go to the archives and see if there … Read more
My vision for this blog in addition to sharing the important changes in all aspects of our profession is to provide the opportunity to share clinical cases and learn online and in time perhaps develop an Oral Health treatment planning and execution discussion forum. The reasons why are below……The intent is not to demean or … Read more
Rob Kaufman is an endodontist in Winnipeg, Manitoba and a longtime member of the endodontic forum ROOTS. Education is his passion and he has manifested his energy through his website EndoExperience which he administers personally. For those who are interested in endodontic information, look at what one person, with computer skills, can do to offer information … Read more
Wonderful posting from an endodontic forum by a talented clinician – Javier Pascual……his first language is Spanish, but pictures speak in every language. Asymptomatic tooth. Ortho treatment just finished. Patient is not happy with the color. GP treatment plan: endo + internal bleaching. GP can´t locate canal and patient is referred to my office. Since … Read more