We are a geographically a huge country with a population less than the state of California if you count Arnold Schwarzenegger twice…we could have a Canadian dental intranet – iTrans – it would require very little to make itransdental.com the domain name for all Canadian dentists – granted there would have to be Doug.Smith(1-99)@itransdental.com allowed [...]

http://ucladentaliptp.wordpress.com/2012/02/ Talk about EUREKA!!!  UCLA INTERNATION POST DOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM – go visit, it’s a mind blower!!!!! Double click the image to peruse, then hit the link and go postal!!!

http://pdacongress2012.com/

I’ll do anything to get this blog’s numbers to skyrocket………sadly, the title is from Chuckles the clown on his passing in the Mary Tyler Moore show, so those of you who are up in arms, “SETTLE DOWN!” Nope, this entry is about http://www.clinicianschoice.com/posecom/pages.php?pageid=46 I want to encourage those who put on CE in Niagara, the Okanagan, [...]

http://www.biodigital.com/ 3D learning – whodda thunk it eh hoser????

By Rosemary Frei, MSc, DrBicuspid.com contributing writer January 19, 2012 — A Canadian university is offering a continuing dental education (CDE) program taught mostly by master of business administration professors that is tailored to dentists’ specific needs as small-business managers. Read full article

If you’ve been on the Internet for a while, you realize the concept of viral. You receive endless amounts of “push” informatics.  You can be dismissive and angrily demand to be unsubscribed or  you can review the material, get a sense of source, content, if you’re into graphics and such, admire the design and if [...]

The following is from Dr. Bicuspid – they did a poll on the following topics to provide a “Golden Globes, Emmy, Tony, Oscar” style overview of the profession and the industry. It’s clever marketing and indicative of those who both set the trends and deliver the information on them.  The concept is intriguing as it [...]

6th Annual American Dental Implant Association Symposium Four Seasons Hotel Las Vagesa Nevada April 13 – 14 2012 Pre – symposium April 12 2012 General Sessions April 13 7:45 – 8:00 Welcome 8:30 – 9:00 Keiichi Naruse, DDS – Vertical Ridge Augmentation 9:00 – 9:45 Rhys Spoor, DDS – Implant and Aesthetic Synergy: Creating Higher [...]

As technologic change innovates and disrupts the dental service mix, it seems odd that dental education is lagging so seriously behind the innovation and sophistication of product and equipment evident in all the dental disciplines.  Why would anyone advocate learning cone beam tomography in a classroom setting, CEREC in a classroom setting, why does INVISALIGN [...]

What did Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paul Simon and Lennon and McCartney know that dentistry is just learning to appreciate; that social networking can work wonders if you extrapolate with Bayesian objectivity.  “You and I have memories/longer than road that stretches out ahead”, applies to relationships, not learning. Blended learning describes an algorithm that combines different [...]

From Cosmetic News Traditionally, the placement of dental implants has been an intuitive process. However, recent advancements in three-dimensional diagnostic and treatment technologies, has substantially changed the approach of clinicians to the treatment planning and placement of dental implants. Improvements in three-dimensional imaging, and greater access to proprietary 3D implant planning software, now allow for [...]

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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 perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic [...]

How do we move beyond basic technical fundamentals which are the mainstay of salesforce based education into more purposeful and relevant self-directed learning……….I plan on approaching the author of this paper with the hope that he will contribute to this blog. In this author’s opinion, dentistry must expansively embrace comprehensive reasoning to prevent being diminished [...]

Someone finally realized that you can’t suck and blow at the same time…it’s long overdue for organized dentistry to do the same…… …Something huge happened at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting. Although the meaning of what happened will be spun throughout the blogosphere, twittersphere, and schmuckosphere, the bottom line is that the [...]