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Paperless makes for less stress
March 21st 2012Doctors Allen and Kelly Smudde of Valencia, CA-based Smudde Dental decided to go paperless in 2007. The improvement in efficiency for the 6,000-patient practice has been noticeable. The same patient exam that used to take between one and a half hours to two hours now takes 45 minutes.
5 reasons to buy: Ultraviolet protection
March 21st 2012VIOlight prevents cross-contamination of bacteria from one toothbrush to another and from airborne bathroom germs caused by sneezing, coughing or toilet flushing. Conveniently sanitizes up to four toothbrushes at one time. The UV bulb lasts more than 2,000 hours and only needs replaced every one or two years, depending on use.
Mobile dentist runs practice with Bento for iPhone
March 21st 2012Dentist Bia Kunze had a simple idea: If you can't make it to the dentist, the dentist will come to you. Kunze is a mobile dentist in Brazil, treating house or hospital-bound patients in and around the city of Curitiba. To manage her practice on the go, she uses Bento for iPhone.
Ready to go, unsure where to start
March 21st 2012With so much technology out there, which practice systems get first dibs? I recommend approaching your technology integration efforts as a puzzle, with each system acting as a piece that needs to fit into an overall strategy so that, when the puzzle is complete-and individual products selected-it reflects the right picture for your practice. The systems to evaluate are:
Marketing Insider: Success with web-based marketing, Part II
March 21st 2012In this Article we tackle the second key to a successful website, namely, attracting the visitor. Before your website can encourage patients to visit your office, they first must find your website. For this to happen, you need to position yourself so that, when people and businesses in your community are searching for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your site, that they find. Access Paths
Blogs by dentists: An essential tool for successful internet marketing
March 21st 2012What is a blog, and why should a dentist care? “Blog” is short for “blind frog,” and if you believe that, I have some oceanfront Internet real estate that you’re going to love. Seriously, folks, “blog” is a word that Peter Merholtz created in 1999 from Jorn Berger’s term “weblog,” coined two years earlier. By definition, a blog is an online journal that can contain text, videos, and audio.
"Two-photon lithography" allows faster 3D printing on a nanometer scale.
March 13th 2012A team at the Vienna University of Technology recently set a speed record for 3D printing on a nano-scale with a new "two-photon lithography" technology that uses a focused laser to print solid objects from a liquid resin.
Heraeus Precious Metal Refining FDLT dontations for 2011 were close to $20,000
February 14th 2012The total just keep climbing for the partnership between Heraeus Precious Metal Refining and the Foundation for Dental Laboratory Technology, as today it was announced that last year donations from the refining branch of Heraeus Kulzer to the foundation were close to $20,000.
The Key Group to Release Dental Products Assessment Report
January 4th 2012The Key Group will release its first professional dental market research report that will be part of an annual series covering brand equity and loyalty measurement by leading competitors in top dental products categories. Containing data from over 500 U.S. dentists and hygienists, the report should provide dental professionals a valued resource. The 2012 U.S. Dental Products Brand Equity and Marketing Assessment Report will become available on January 15th. Read the full press release...
Vident certifies materials with IdentAlloy/IdentCeram certificates
December 1st 2011In a great move that benefits the dental lab industry, dentists and patients, Vident recently signed on to join the IdentAlloy/IdentCeram Council and will begin providing certificates confirming the contents of the materials they use from Vident.
Interested in Dental Informatics?
December 1st 2011The School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, is recruiting applicants for MS, phD, and postdoctoral positions in dental informatics. The program is open to professionals with a variety of backgrounds and financial support is available through the National Institutes of Health. The program starts this August.
2011 DLOAC CAD/CAM Expo & Symposium Day 1
November 18th 2011The day started early for the technicians and lab owners attending the 8th Annual Dental Laboratory Owners Association of California CAD/CAM Expo & Symposium, but the sizable crowd was in store for a day packed with details on the latest in dental lab technology and opportunities to meet with the range of companies selling scanners, mills, materials and associated products.