Bundle of Joy
In recent OHJ posts, we evaluated the different systems of digital radiography available to the modern dental practice. We have looked at the differences between the sensors and phosphor plate systems, focusing on…
The Three Technologies You May Not Know About…But Should!
The modern dental practice continues to evolve at a very rapid pace. Many systems that were paper and film based for close to a century are being replaced by digital counterparts. There are…
Phosphor Plate Systems
There is no doubt that sensors are still the most dominant type of digital radiography system on the market in terms of units sold. However, over the past few years, another form of…
Digital Sensors
Over the past few columns of this blog, we have examined many of the factors that go into upgrading the practice towards a chartless system. While many of these concepts are important in…
Purchasing a Digital X-Ray System
Three Things You Need to Know Before Purchasing a Digital X-Ray System While many practices have made the leap to digital x-rays over the past decade, over 50% are still not using digital…
Dental students like case-based OMR course – ya think?
From DrBicuspid March 20, 2012 – A case-based, team-based oral and maxillofacial radiology (OMR) learning model at the University of Missouri-Kansas City is yielding positive results, according to a study in the Journal of Dental…
Clog – Riddle me this DDS….
A very esthetic conscious 53 year old woman was referred to me as a new patient. Previous RCT’s were done by another practitioner. The CBCT scan shows external resorption at the mesiocervical area…
Phosphor plate scanner uses RFID to simplify workflow
By Kathy Kincaide – Dr. Bicuspid - March 19, 2012 – Carestream Dental is working to ease the transition to digital imaging with a computed radiography (CR) system designed to bridge the gap between conventional and digital…
Dentists ready for eHealth surgery
Please read this very carefully – I’ve been encouraging the folks on the committee to mandate encryption of records and communication in Ontario to step out from behind the curtain with no real…
There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review
IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking…
Sota to launch new x-ray sensors, software
From Dr. Bicuspid – August 12, 2011 August 12, 2011 – Sota Imaging is gearing up to launch its newest dental imaging products: Clio digital x-ray sensors and Cliosoft dental imaging software. The Clio imaging system…
Live dental events help grow 3-D education
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…
The Hidden Cause of Sinusitis in Seniors
From Worldental.org Dental Health Magazine Chronic sinusitis is a condition currently affecting approximately 13% of the Americans. On a yearly basis, there are $6 billion spent and 13 million visits made to the doctor…
SOREDEX is introducing new features to the DIGORA® Optime dental imaging plate system
Not very well known in Canada from what I can determine, this is truly one of the most superb phosphor plate digital systems I’ve seen. My experience with it has been on numerous…







