From the International Oral Cancer Association Blog The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimated that there would be 35,720 new cases of cancer of the oral and pharyngeal region in the United States in 2009, with 7,600 deaths from the disease.1 Image via Wikipedia When focusing specifically on the oral cavity,ACS estimated that in 2009,there would … Read more
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Science gets partial answers slowly – Margaret Scarlett – April 18, 2011 from Medscape Connect In these changing times with technology always changing, I’m reminded of a saying from a colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). When faced with new scientific data on prevention of disease, this scientific expert said something … Read more
From Dr. Bicuspid – April 19, 2011 Dental schools in the U.S., U.K., and Australia are beginning to adopt cone-beam CT technology into their curricula, but few currently provide training on this equipment to predoctoral and undergraduate students,according to research conducted by Vijay Parashar,BDS, DDS, MDSc, an associate professor at the Midwestern University College of … Read more
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AMD Lasers announcing new educational initiative – April 2011 From MarketWire – I’m including this because it mentions iPADS!!! INDIANAPOLIS, IN, USA: Bringing another first to the dental industry, AMD LASERS is now offering iPads as part of its companywide going green and paperless initiative. iPad technology will replace paper and DVDs throughout the educational … Read more
From News Medical This year, for the first time, millions of Americans will be protecting their sensitive teeth with NovaMin in everyday dental products. Co-inventor Gary Hack, DDS, couldn’t be happier. “To know that our invention will now have a positive impact globally on dental pain and help those individuals suffering from sensitive teeth is … Read more
Watch “A Day Made of Glass” and take a look at Corning‘s vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it……coming to a dental office near you in the next decade…… Related articles The future is touchscreen glass – everywhere, all around us and it’ll be awesome (dvice.com) Corning’s glass video shatters … Read more
By Brian Tse, William Harwin, Alastair Barrow, Barry Quinn, Jonathan San Diego and Margaret Cox Abstract This paper presents a novel design of a virtual dental training system (hapTEL) using haptic technology. The system allows dental students to learn and practice procedures such as dental drilling, caries removal and cavity preparation for tooth restoration. This paper focuses on the hardware design, … Read more
The story you will be directed to by the hyperlink below is a game changer for most big box businesses and the customer experience…….NOW ask yourselves, how long will it be before Dentrix or Abel or PracticeWorks or Live DDM or whomever introduces tablet computers for your office that do scheduling et al from the … Read more
“Innovation–the heart of the knowledge economy–is fundamentally social.” — Malcolm Gladwell Image via Wikipedia By Benj Edwards from PCMAG.com New technology has been killing off older technology since the dawn of mankind. Thanks to irrepressible human ingenuity, we’re always inventing newer and better ways to do things, which makes those older methods fade into history. … Read more
Cogito ergo sum – Rene Descartes To a greater or lesser degree, I opt not to editorialize in these blog entries. I see this volunteer effort as a mechanism for the creation of a NEXUS, whereby, the push technology of over a decade of Internet interest brings, in addition to hundreds of pharmaceutical providers commenting … Read more
I had the opportunity to make the acquaintance of an e-learning genius, Dr. Ovidiu Ciobanu, some time ago. At the time we met, the use of 3D graphics and animations was NOT the province of presenters in the dental world nor a component of publication in dental journals. I have to believe that is about … Read more
Abstract from ICOI – Implant Dentistry Authors – Esfandiari, Shahrokh DMD, MSc, PhD; Majdzadeh, Reza PhD; Feine, Jocelyne DDS, HDR Objective: We designed to determine the variables that influence the adoption rate of implant technology amongst Canadian dentists. Methods and Material: In this cross-sectional study, an anonymous survey questionnaire was sent to all licensed Canadian … Read more
DO VISIT STRAUMANN’S website Straumann® CARES® Digital Solutions represents a complete dental solution, from digital impression-taking using intra-oral scanning to the computerized production of prosthetics using state-of-the-art CAM processing. Each individual step is well-coordinated, seamlessly interlocking and is designed for high quality. Digitalization will impact all aspects of dentistry. Straumann is committed to bringing the … Read more
From Dr. Bicuspid PreXion offers lower radiation CBCT system By DrBicuspid Staff February 18, 2011 — PreXion plans to showcase its new 3D cone-beam CT (CBCT) system, the PreXion3D Elite with CLEARimage scanning technology, at the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting next week. The new system incorporates PreXion’s CLEARimage technology, which produces high-quality, high-definition images while reducing radiation exposure … Read more
The 50 Greatest Game Changers in Dentistry Townies were asked one simple question: In your opinion, what person,event,story, technology, product or service do you think has been the biggest “game changer” in all of dentistry? And here are the results. What has changed the way you practice dentistry? Is it the soft-tissue laser you love … Read more
According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, standouts in surgical procedures in terms of growth over the next five years are going to be dental implant, facial injectable, optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheter, spinal nonfusion implant, and percutaneous heart valve procedures in North America. Image via Wikipedia Otherwise, … Read more
The image below is produced by a technology called microCT. 90 years ago, similar images were produced by ink infusion technology. Dr. Hess in Germany showcased the inordinate complexity of the root canal system and tragically begat the Focal Infection Era. Technology for the sake of technology obviates the reality of biologic fundamentalism. No matter … Read more
by DentalVibe A savvy marketing guru has joined forces with Dr. Steven Goldberg, the inventor of DentalVibe. DentalVibe, a comfort injection system, utilizes patented VibraPulse pain blocking technology to send a message to the patient’s brain, intercepting the pain and sensitivity associated with a traditional injection. Scott Mahnken has helped companies such as SS White, … Read more