If you’re reading this, you’ve been blogged Social media has changed the landscape in health care.  Social media is a powerful and phenomenal platform to help educate consumers, raise awareness of health issues and connect with consumers and colleagues. Social media gives a voice to patients and consumers and it allows the conversation to get [...]

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From Dentistry Today – October 6th, 2011 IRVINE, Calif. - (October 5, 2011) – J. Morita USA announces the launch of their new Facebook page. In promotion, licensed dentists that “like” the page will be entered to win a Root ZX mini, the company‘s new apex locator, through October 30, 2011. J. Morita USA has entered into [...]

Time to reframe this blog. The icanaden forum recently discussed this very issue – hopefully, someone who reads this, the two or three of your who do, may know someone on icanaden. If we use the rule of six degrees of separation, then perhaps Dr. Limeback will either share a blog posting or a comment. [...]

Don’t postpone that move to Facebook and Twitter. By not incorporating them into the fabric of your practice, you are losing a huge potential marketing and educational advantage for current and future patients. It’s a culture and it’s pervasive; you should strongly consider becoming part of it. The percentage of adult Internet users using sites [...]

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 [...]

From Dentistry IQ – July 22, 2011 FAIR LAWN,New Jersey–MIS Implants Technologies’ new oral health products brand, PeriZone, has launched a Facebook page that will be introduced and promoted July 28-30, 2011, during RDH Under One Roof. Specifically, the company will be giving away a new pair of Kate Spade New York Kamille satin designer [...]

Something to ponder and consider: Practice: By developing an online presence for office through Facebook, Twittr, or a blog, you demonstrate to potential patients that you are human and care about their world. Collegial: The ability to obtain literally immediate information on a product, a piece of equipment, on a treatment plan is simply unachievable [...]

From our friends at the Endo Blog -  THURSDAY,JULY 7, 2011 Evaluation of #2 for Retreatment, CBCT Revisited. I want to thank Dr. Hales for the introduction and for inviting me to contribute here on the Endoblog. I’ve been following and learning from the Endoblog for some time. It’s my hope that I can not [...]

So you think tweeting is new do you??? Rockin’ robin, tweet tweet tweetRockin’ robin’ tweet tweetly-tweetBlow rockin’ robin‘Cause we’re really gonna rock tonight Bobby Day 1958 Now to the point of this entry –  Twitter – the social media site that allows users to publicly air their innermost thoughts, tweet at other so-called tweeps, and [...]

There’s something almost ribald and Bacchanalian about watching the tech companies go after each other for the next killer APP and market share. With a soupcon of painting outside the lines, your dental practice will benefit…….no sooner does Google release Google + and Hangout, than Facebook – well read the article Related articles I’m Not [...]

The dental team has a new weapon in treatment planning – HANGOUT!! With this group video chat feature, Google+ has, for the first time, made social networking actually feel like a social activity. The concept is simple: It’s a chat room where, rather than typing, you chat via webcam. (Though you can turn off the [...]

Consider the implications of a Facebook page for your practice and the anticipated announcement of a Facebook APP for iPAD‘s.  The marketing potential is unprecedented. Watch a commercial on TV, read the statistics in the accompanying article, read a magazine, check out the ads; www.facebook.com/(fill in the name of your company) is now standard. Keeping [...]

Gendex can now be found on social media sites Facebook and Twitter…..some of the dental corporate world is waking up……….(with thanks to Dr. Bicuspid) As well, Gendex announced  a new blog site, www.gendexdental.com. The Gendex social media pages are intended to directly engage the dental community with the latest news in the industry, improvements in x-ray technology, [...]

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Time for the power of social networking to demonstrate and DOMINATE…… By Rabia Mughal, Associate Editor – Dr. Bicuspid June 20, 2011 — As the overall job market in the U.S. continues to be sluggish, a few recent reports — which considered hiring outlook as a criterion — have ranked dental hygienist among the top [...]