A individual in attendance at an Ontario Dental Association meeting last evening was told, that unless email messages pertaining to patients are sent “encrypted” between colleagues, they are in essence inappropriate, perhaps illegal and tantamount to violation of the Piracy (excuse me) Privacy Act. I have on numerous occasions tried to turn this blog into [...]

Posted this a while back…. http://blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com/2011/12/dentists-turn-to-marketing-after-getting-brush-off-from-patients.html Mississauga Dentist Increases Oral Cancer Awareness Dr. Brian Kaplansky, dentist in Mississauga, offers early oral cancer detection with new technology. http://www.healthcareglobal.com/press_releases/mississauga-dentist-increases-oral-cancer-awareness Less than 30 years ago, the RCDSO would come after you in Ontario for marketing…..in the words of the John Mayer – we keep waiting for the world [...]

I’ve taken or given CE for 137 years and once the Internet took hold, never understood the practicality of sitting in a room with poor acoustics, uncomfortable chairs and in the vast majority of situations, that had no facility for note taking because of the abscess, sorry absence,  of tables, school desks or simply lousy lighting. [...]

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Lotta chatter about dentistry on the news shows these days…this from ABC news By the time a dentist finds a cavity, that tooth has been through several stages of a chronic infectious disease called dental caries, where acids dissolve tooth enamel, letting bacteria inside. Unchecked, the tooth can die. Dentistry today focuses on early intervention to [...]

If this were your tooth, what would you do….feel free to comment below Hello Rooters!  Here is  a really herodontic case!  Reasons not to save it: 1. Radiological findings indicating severe bone loss 2. Lack of ferrule 3. Huge perforation in the distal canal 4. Three fractured instruments – lentulo, Haedstrom and K-file Reasons to [...]

Santa Fe, New Mexico – December 1, 2011 Sigma Labs, Inc. (OTCBB: SGLB) announced today that its collaborative work with a dental implant manufacturer has resulted in the filing of a potentially ground-breaking patent for a new manufacturing technology that appears to significantly improve integration between an implant and bone. Richard Mah, CEO of Sigma Labs, [...]

By Ritchie S. King – the New York Times – November 28, 2011 Until 2010, Amelia Nuwer, 22, visited the same dentist every year in Biloxi, Miss., her hometown. And every year she came back with a clean bill of dental health: no fillings necessary. Then, as a junior at the University of Alabama, she [...]

A MUST FOR EVERY DENTAL OFFICE – thanks Seema…. SHARE IT AND CARE IT… http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/CancerTreatment/ChemotherapyYourMouth.htm Related articles Leukemia and Your Mouth (everydayhealth.com) What Foods Should Be Avoided During Chemo? (everydayhealth.com) Coping With Chemotherapy Side Effects (everydayhealth.com) The Side Effects of Chemotherapy (everydayhealth.com) Chemotherapy can impair speech (medicalxpress.com) Patients going through chemotherapy can save their hair [...]

From Pullman Washington Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane…….oops, wrong intro It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone.And it came off an inkjet printer. Washington State University researchers have used a 3D printer to create a bone-like material and structure that [...]

From the Los Angeles Times – you just know the Kardashians are all over this like a fat kid on a smartee – Kris Jenner is smelling reality TV show with Kim, Kourtney and the other clones dressed up in Playboy bunny assisting uniforms…with cute little Gucci tool belts…. T Image via Wikipedia he economic [...]

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Photon Induced Photoacoustic Streaming from Lares Dental http://laresdental.com/pips.asp An idea whose time has come? Related articles Avalanche of endodontics on acrylic blocks? (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Lasers in Endodontics (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Retreatment of failing endodontic procedures REDUX (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Retreatment of failing endodontic procedures REDUX (1.5) (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Decompression case – endodontics (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Retreatment of failing endodontic procedures REDUX (1) (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Interview: [...]

From Modern Dental Practice Marketing Are you puzzled by blogging and branding? Wondering how marketing evolved from Yellow Pages ads to search engine optimization? You aren’t the only one. The marketing world has changed dramatically in the past decade! But there’s hope. You can get on the modern marketing bandwagon and bring in new patients. [...]

Looking for charting from a variety of disciplines……..makes the move to electronic that much simpler…….perhaps the lads working with the RCDSO might be willing to share their forms………just a moment, must hold my breath till I turn blue………….can’t tweak these dudes….Double click the little dickens and then print it off…….if you want the .pdf – [...]

From Modern Dental Practice Marketing Traditionally, the holidays are a slow time for dentists. Hopefully this is not the case for you! If you planned and executed a sensational marketing plan early this year, you are probably reaping the benefits of a full schedule right now. One of our clients asked me to remove their [...]