This is worth a peek and a boo…………albeit CAVEAT EMPTOR in contrast to CARPE DIEM www.curveed.com Web based software to use anytime…anywhere

Excellent new website from our friends o’er the pond.  The home page demonstrates the manner in which I hope in time to see this blog evolve………..case reports……it’s the future. Sample: from www.dentinaltubules.com http://dentinaltubules.com/MarkAmbridge2 Creating the Optimal Aesthetic Result Part 2 Restoring a single central incisor on a deep Ankylos fixture. 28/12/2010 Mark Ambridge continues his [...]

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale George Bernard Shaw said, “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them.” [...]

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), the recognized leader in children‘s oral health, announced an outreach partnership with the text4baby program. The AAPD’s leading pediatric oral health experts will work closely with text4baby in the dissemination of information to pregnant women and new moms about children’s oral health care. An educational program of the [...]

In response to a high prevalence of neck and back pain among working dentists and dental hygienists, the dean of the University of Maryland Dental School Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent, has launched an initiative to bring renewed attention to ergonomics into dental education. Image via Wikipedia Starting with the current semester, every incoming student [...]

The accompanying links are an amalgam of commentary, prognostication and at the same time a reflection that so much of what we are fed is like watching a duck on a pond; what you see is calm, almost serene, a pastiche of dynamics and quiescence, except that if your perspective changed and you were able [...]

A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. It is typically one-way, from the speaker to the audience with limited audience interaction, such as in a webcast. A webinar can be collaborative and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. In some cases, the presenter may speak [...]

By Eric S. Solomon, DDS, MA Part 1 of a 4-part series Dentistry is going through a transition. As we shall see,the range of dental services and the mix of dental practice employees have changed dramatically during the past half century. We also are experiencing a major shift in the number of dental care providers. [...]

Since dentistry remains the red haired bastard step-child of medicine due to our penchant for technologic not biologic fundamental obsession, something to do with industry meeting quotas, nonetheless, we as a profession are going to have to understand that APPS for smart phones and tablet computers are our future. Patient education, electronic record keeping, virtual [...]

By Danny Bobrow, MBA The history of the public’s perception of dentistry may be viewed as consisting of three waves. I like to describe the first wave with the term “Feel Well Dentistry.”  During this wave, dentists were perceived as first and foremost who to call to get you out of tooth pain.  The next [...]

Mensa is essentially an institutionalized way to brag about your I.Q. It’s like owning a Porsche in Toronto, the third most traffic congested city in N. America, but it looks great when you’re not moving on the Don Valley Parking Lot.  Member of this exclusive social networking club score in the top 2 percent on intelligence [...]

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Just noodling on the Net – registered for Vimeo.com – review the welcome email below – content should suggest what it’s about…..in a world of mydentalhub.com and dentpix.com for patient education – suddenly, like Facebook, it’s gone viral…it’s YouTube on steroids, a community of tutorials about how to be mini-dental Spielbergs….it’s getting better and wilder [...]

by Allan G. Farman, BDS, PhD, MBA, DSc; William C. Scarfe, BDS,MS,FRACDS; and Michiel van Genuchten, PhD While dentistry of the future will likely include interventions such as biologic scaffolding and tissue regeneration, dentistry of the present and near future will continue to be based on the orthodontic movement of teeth and the prosthetic reconstruction and [...]

The vision of this blog remains ill defined, not unlike an experiment in the social sciences whereby, the objective is unclear because the technology hasn’t permeated the majority of the viewers and the application of the technology remains blurry.  Still confused, good, that usually means you’ll either re-read the posting or read further with increased [...]

The following is from the University of Minnesota CE programming, entitled “What’s new in Dentistry?” Do you agree?  Consider, ripping, mixing and burning your thoughts in the comments section. Benefits/Objectives   The 2011 program will show you how to:  detect oral cancer–do the new screening techniques/adjuncts really work? deal with patient stress related to TMD [...]