The images and videos of “The Root Canal Anatomy Project” blog were developed at the Laboratory of Endodontics of Ribeirao Preto Dental School – Univesity of Sao Paulo – and may be freely used for attributed noncommercial educational purposes by educators, scholars, student and clinicians. It means that all material used should include proper attribution [...]

Have tried endlessly to get the folks at OH to migrate this blog platform to a stronger social media software, but my emails have long been filtered into folder “IGNORE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE”…..one thing, I’d donate a kidney for is a polling mechanism to truly take the pulse of Canadian dental care givers……..I think it [...]

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What is a video presentation worth as a learning experience? I am actively seeking clinical contributors for the blog to expand it’s global outreach and value. Please consider sharing cases with images and figure legends up to and including graphics, animations and video clips. Oral Health is into its second century and by all rights, [...]

This blog is a flyspeck on the corporate flowchart of the company that includes Oral Health as one of it’s assets. I’m told however, when I hector the folks that run it to give me the analytics (10 hectors for one incomplete answer), that it draws a considerable number of hits to the OH website. [...]

The fact is that 80% of Canadian dentists won’t get the upshot of the title of this blog entry…… South Pacific, washing, hair, Mitzi Gaynor – never mind. September 1, 2011, 1:16 PM Getting Doctors to Wash Their Hands By ANAHAD O’CONNOR A new study has a message for doctors and nurses who fail to wash their [...]

One of my favorite CE journals is Compendium from www.dentalaegis.com Check out this case from John Weston, DDS. http://www.dentalaegis.com/cced/2011/09/conservative-full-mouth-reconstruction-of-a-worn-dentition-utilizing-digital-impression-technology-and-moden-ceramic-materials which linked off the AACD blog at http://aacd.posterous.com/conservative-full-mouth-reconstruction-of-a-w Ah, the smell of napalm and social media/networking in the a.m. Related articles Neuromuscular Dentistry (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Leaders in Dentistry: A conversation with Dr. David T.W. Wong (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) More than a [...]

You are ALL encouraged to contribute cases to this blog……in excess of 16k dentists in this country – with the Internet, that’s a veritable treasure trove of learning to share and care. Begin forwarded message: From: Roberto Cristescu <cristescu.roberto.04@gmail.com>Date: August 30, 2011 6:40:49 AMTo: ROOTS <roots@ls.rxdentistry.com>Subject: [roots] Fwd: Tooth 17 sent for finishing the treatment [...]

From Modern Dental Practice Management Some interesting information hit my email box this morning, thanks to Dr. Emmott’s blog. An article at www.pcmag.com tells us “Most Facebook Fans of Small Businesses Aren’t Local, Study Finds.” I know that’s the case with the MDPM Facebook page. We have fans from all over the globe — but [...]

Writing this blog would be arduous if not for the magic of RSS feeds and “alerts” as in we need more “lerts”. This piece just passed across my iPAD from a human resources blog I monitor…..something to post in your team area, you know the space behind the Pan and beside the utility room and used [...]

Before I address the reason for this blog entry, look at the image below and read the hyperlinked article associated with it. Twittr and Flickr usage Now that you understand the enormity, the pervasiveness of the use of social media, please allow me to share a story. I was treating tooth #1.7 (#1 for those living [...]

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The fact that ANYTHING is happening in Oklahoma warrants this blog entry. From Worldental.org – June 1, 2011 In Hungary, the dental tourism profits reach a stunning 227 million Euros annually,which means that the country has got as much as 40% share of the entire European tourism market. However,Hungary sets the stakes even higher, and wants to [...]

The server that supports this blog had an IT aneurysm yesterday, lost several postings. This one in particular was really important and worth a repost…….. Many thanks to one of my personal heroes, Dr. Marc Balson, the CE director of the New Jersey Association of Endodontics for allowing “us” to share the files listed below. Dr. [...]

My apologies to those who feel that this blog should be exclusively dental in it’s outreach. The resources for posting to this blog come by push technology to my iPhone. This particular tidbit would normally have been ignored, but this month has been most unusual in terms of the sheer volume of information received and [...]

Time to make this blog a tad and smidge more erudite……thus, in terms of reference for the Endodontic Implant Algorithm – the removal of tooth when all is lost, I shall quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; [...]