On 09.30.10, In Trends in Dental Education, by Dr. Ken Serota
The goal of this blog is encourage dialogue from the readership. Dentistry like all health sciences is in a state of flux, impacted upon by economic changes and technologic shifts in the service mix. Nothing is as relevant or helpful as the intel gathered from grunts in the field. That’s us my wet-fingered amis…….nous sommes les enfants [...]
On 09.29.10, In General News, by melissa
On Monday, September 27th, Oral Health was invited to be at the product launch for Colgate’s new Sensitive Pro-Relief desensitizing paste. Using the lovely backdrop of Sassafraz Restaurant in Yorkville, Toronto and with special guest Dr. Bill Dorfman on hand, Colgate unveiled this new paste which, with Pro-Argin technology, is clinically proven to provide instant and [...]
On 09.26.10, In Dental Trauma, by Dr. Ken Serota
Gotcha – figured easiest way to grab attention was to fulfill all your hopes and dreams…..can’t do that in a fiduciary manner, but I can provide you access to a magical website that will make your life easier in the event of a trauma case. The Dental Trauma guide is a non-profit website dedicated to [...]
On 09.25.10, In Trends in Dental Education, by Dr. Ken Serota
Teledentistry (Tele-OralHealth)… Webinars are fast becoming the sine qua non for dental education. For those who challenge this, I suggest they start looking at the statistics from Angus Reid and Millennium research on other media delivery platforms. It’s not about the now, it’s about the trends that will be the drivers of the next decade. [...]
On 09.24.10, In Digital radiography, by Dr. Ken Serota
Dr. Larry Emmott is one of the leading authorties on dental high tech. The following is from his latest blog entry………….. Digital Radiography is one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies in dentistry. It is also the area with the most misinformation……….with dentists who either do buy digital for the wrong reasons or [...]
On 09.23.10, In Laser Dentistry, by Dr. Ken Serota
As an addendum to the previous post, please visit the accompanying URL – excellent videos on laser application to a variety of dental procedures……….. http://www.laresdental.com/videos.asp Related articles by Zemanta Netflix CEO Thinks Americans Are Too Egocentric to Notice Canada’s Discount [NetFlix] (gizmodo.com) Netflix hires actors to pose as its Canada fans (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Netflix streaming comes [...]
On 09.18.10, In Periodontology, by Dr. Ken Serota
This is not what you call what you do in Los Angeles when you get tired, nor is it a misspelled APP for setting up a Local Area Network…..LANAP is an acronym that stands for Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure. It has revolutionized the treatment of gum disease by combining the most effective and established [...]
On 09.18.10, In Trends in Dental Education, by Dr. Ken Serota
This is a variation on the theme of the state motto of New Hampshire. This entry will routinely be adjusted as more and more “free” webinar links are identified. The first is from Den Trek which interestingly enough is owned by an endodontist, Phil Klein, who saw the vision of online education many many moons [...]
Image via Wikipedia Ottawa says there is a shortage of dentists in rural Canada so it has chipped in $800,000 to get foreign-trained dentists here ASAP, according to a story by Tom Godfrey in the Toronto Sun. “The Canadian Dental Regulatory Authorities Federation will use the money for a national centre to assess the credentials [...]
On 09.14.10, In Practice management, by Dr. Ken Serota
Lisa Philp, RDH, CMC is the President of Transitions Group North America, a full service coaching company for dentistry. She graduated from East Tennessee State University as a Registered Dental Hygienist in 1987. Her career began with clinical hygiene in United States and Canada to the creation of a periodontal disease management program in which [...]
On 09.13.10, In Practice management, by Dr. Ken Serota
With all the technologic advances and sophistication coming to the fore in the dental armamentarium, the advancement and sophistication necessary to ensure their delivery to a consumer base faced with a schizophrenic economy is lacking. Thanks to the invaluable and extraordinary contribution by Lisa Philp of Transitions Group North America, Mouthing Off presents a [...]
On 09.11.10, In Stem cell research, by Dr. Ken Serota
ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2010) – For most people, wisdom teeth are not much more than an annoyance that eventually needs to be removed. However, a new study appearing in the Sept. 17Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that wisdom teeth contain a valuable reservoir of tissue for the creation of stem cells; thus, everyone might be carrying around [...]
On 09.09.10, In General News, by Dr. Ken Serota
From Medical News Today: The new e-learning platform ILKUM (an acronym for “Interaktiver Lernzielkatalog der Universitätsmedizin Mainz” or interactive catalogue of learning objectives of Mainz University Medical Center) is a sign of things to come: Students of dentistry in 2010 now only need internet access to be able to download case studies with film and [...]
On 09.04.10, In Cone beam computed tomography, by Dr. Ken Serota
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