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updating 11/4/2008
General, Dental Education, Find a dentist, Patient Education, Dental Resources, Hygienist Sites, Online Magazines/ newsletters,
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http://dentechblog.blogspot.com/ Marty Jablow keeps your current with Dental and computer information
http://dentaltechnologyblog.blogspot.com/ John Flucke keeps you up on computer related information for your office, home and life.
You can have Marty, John and me come to your study club anywhere in the US at a reasonable cost to your group. Look at this site: http://www.dentaltechnologysolutions.com/
http://thedigitaldentist.blogspot.com/ Lorne Lavine has the latest dental news and computer related information for your practices. Don't forget to CONTACT LORNE with your computer questions- he has the answers!
DDSGadget- a Dental Blog for all sorts of dental technology discussions. Easy format to get and give information. One of the notable contributors is yours truly.
OsseoNews.com a resource and blog for implant related information. It has reached an international status as a resource.
Emmott On Technology Larry Emmott has been a long time Tech friend and has a lot of information here for you
Internet Dental Forum- the best way to keep up with dentistry. This is a newsgroup where dental professionals around the world share techniques, problems, dental issues and more. If you can send email, you can do this. (Note- you will get as many as 50 messages a day). Founded by David Dodell, DMD, THE dental internet guru. Free 30 day trial membership. Small annual membership fee ($80 US). Correspond, compare notes, learn and commiserate with your peers.
ACEsthetics (formerly genR8Next maillist)-Academy of Comprehensive Esthetics. An email network for promoting the benefits of functional esthetic dentistry. The list is comprised of speakers, clinicians, dentists, manufacturers, team members, suppliers & consultants sharing information FREE OF CHARGE for the betterment of the profession.( New premier membership with a small fee gets discounts on several products as well as preferred rates at acethetics meetings). Schmooze online with some of the biggest names in dentistry. genR8TNext/ACEthetics was founded by Dr. Mike Maroon, Dr. Anthony Vocaturo & Dr. Tim Hale. Their courses on digital photography, marketing and other areas are first class. For more information, http://www.acesthetics.com/
DentalTown Go online with 100,000+ dental professionals an share ideas on all aspects of dentistry and life. Howard Farran's brainchild. Great meetings set up by Tarun Argawal and Sameer Puri. (Townie Meeting website) Information from the dental professionals in the trenches.
FindCE.com Kent Smith DDS has a vision. Set up a resource for all CE programs and have an unbiased method of evalutating them. This is both a resource to course takers and course presenters.
Seltzer Institute Steve Seltzer has put together a resource for use of high technology in the office. Courses, videos, books and consulting are available here. Technology Pearls Report is a newsletter available from Steve. It contains a lot of practical hints, some of which I use in my presentations. Send an email to sseltzer@hitecdentist.com , mention you heard about it here and you will receive a complimentary email issue and subscription information. Steve has a wonderful new monitor/chair light called TLC. It is is a combination light and flat screen monitor. dentalchairpotato.com
The Dental Learning Network ( formerly Foundations In Continuing Education Course Information) On line Continuing Ed
Dental Implants Bob Davidoff DMD- very informative site- great case presentation- continuing ed available
Dental Economics CE- courses updated frequently. Take test online and get credits
This is a new method of updating you dental knowledge base. David Dodell ( of Internet Dental Forum fame) has compiled an array of topics on everything from managing medical emergencies to latest advances in CAD/CAM dentistry in DentalCast. You can also listen online if you do not want to download the files.
Exceptional Dental Practice Management Linda Zdanowicz is a certified dental practice administrator/dental assistant with 16 years experience. Her dental insights and passion are amazing.
Sakaduski Marketing Blog Terrific insights in the dental industry. Joe and Nancy can also help companies get their acts together.
Dental Sales Pro is a resource for people in the industry- look and see what they are saying on the other side of the booths
Dental Buzz is an interesting look at our profession and the poster certainly speaks his or her mind.
Dental Insider - A mysterious dental industry person who gets the story behind the story (at least according to him). Interesting look at the industry
FullOsseousFlap's Dental Blog- This is more politics than dentistry but always thought provoking.
Dental Blog Directory seems to have a complete listing and updates the indices.
Here is a primer to many of the High Tech categories. It is a large project in development and will give the practitioner a place to start his or her research.
1800DENTIST- This company is much more than a referral phone number. A large staff and fully equipped call center can screen the patients before they call your office. They offer many practice management and practice promotion services too numerous to mention here. If you haven't looked at them for a while, do it now. Also look at their sister company Patient Activator.
DDS4U Design and hosting for your own web site. Your site comes up near the top of most search engines. Company seems to be inactive but sites still operate.
Dental Doc Shop- A web site for consumers looking for dentists. This links to your website. It is like a specialized yellow pages on the internet and includes many medical disciplines. Dentistry is subdivided into specialties to make the searches easier. Sign up information for your practice is on the site. Website design is done by Einstein Dental, a subsidiary.
TeethWeb.net has a large base and offers many levels of service. you can start as low as $20 per YEAR! They offer web design, hosting etc.
4smile.com is actually a connection to customers of American Business Card company. You can get a listing in their site and if you are a card customer you can get a free website. There are also several very good links here.
There are several companies that will design and maintain your office website, or optimize ( including getting better search results) you existing site. These are noted in the "internet handout" on the main page of this site.
CAESY The premier system in patient education and is now part of the Patterson Dental Company. You should have this in every treatment room. The DVD version can show a dental procedure to any patient far better than our typical little drawings. The Smile Channel disk is also a wonderful adjunct to run in a waiting room or constantly on the screen during a hygiene visit. Also a wonderful children's module complete with talking dogs and monkeys. There is now a network version- Enterprise-(800) 505-4430 or contact your aptterson rep.
Orasphere A wonderful patient education system with striking 3D animations and graphics. It also allows you to create your own pictures on the spot, eliminating the little sketches that we all do on scraps of paper. Another feature allows the module to "float" over the program that is running. . The pricing is competitive. It is from New Boston Software in Vermont- home of Ben and Jerrys.
Dental Wizard is a new entry which is worth a look. Pricing is quite competitive.
Consult Pro A comprehensive patient education and marketing system. Its strength is in treatment planning that is piggybacked on the excellent animated modules.
Medvisor /GURU A unique approach using a hand held tablet PC (or pen enabled monitor). The modules can be stopped and started at any point and the provider can make notes and drawings right on the screen. These annotated pictures can be saved in the patient file. Striking graphics and animations. (An offshoot of Medvisor is CerconCoach which is more specific to fixed prosthetics and of course, Cercon's CAD restorations). Dentrix has introduced GURU- an offshoot of Medvisor. The website launched in later 2007 is http://www.howdoyouguru.com/
Dental Health News- If you are looking for a printed office newsletter, this company offers a unique service. They will print 50 newsletters at no cost which includes your photo and office information. Once you se it in print you can decide if you want continue with this service. send an email to amym@marketconnections.com and mention this site for your free newsletters. ( you will need to email a photo of yourself). There is a form here that you can print out and fax to them.
Proctor and Gamble a great starting place for any dental professional. News, information, continuing ed and very easy links to Medline ( for comprehensive medical information about disease, drugs, etc.).
DentistryOnline A new website for consumers and dental professionals. In addition to the many resources, they will set up a free web site and email account for you as stated above. actually part of CAESY as caesyonline.
net32 online ordering with amazing specials. Once you sign up you are notified by email of current specials. They work with several distributors and manufacturers, getting you the best deals. They are now also the online connection for Dental Economics, RDH, Dental Graduate and a few other magazines.
DentalCompare.com- a comprehensive site with information on most of the dental products and equipment you are looking to purchase. In addition, many product reviews are available in print of via video by some of the biggest names in the profession.
Web Dental Large "dental database" many links and listings.
Dental web sites of note
Transcendonline.com A web based service that allows dentists to share cases with each other, including radiographs and images. Referral groups can be set up and there can be almost instant consultations with others. This may be the referral system of the future. Also many other online features including TransLab- an online connection between the dental office and the lab.
DentalXChange. This was formerly Vdentist and Dentisoft. Now concentrates on eclaims. Reinventing itself in 2008 take another look
Ms.Flossy- a very good dental site, very informative.
The Toothfairy A nice resource for patients and professionals.
Toothfairy Cyberspace- Birgit Gajdos is up in Canada with this cute site.
E-Dental online magazine. A resource with news, manufacturers links, product information, reviews and a lot more. It looks like a good one.You can subscribe at the website and you will receive it in your email weekly.
Did you ever wish you could access your office software from home? you can set up all sorts of VPNs, and other Windows services or just pay a small monthly fee for one of these:
GoToMyPC.com Install this in minutes- with a mouse click and secure password, the office computer appears right on your screen with all access to the PM software, files, etc. You can even back up files form office to home and vice versa. Multi location offices will also find this very useful. The company has several other remote products including web conferencing and remote support.
LogMeIn.com is another network that will allow remote access. There is a free version that you can use- it can be used to read and operate your office computers but cannot transfer files in the free version.
ImInTouch.net is a new competitor offering a 30 day free trial. Very simple setup- full featured and a nice interface with full screen made easy. There is a new feature that allows you to remotely turn on a computer that is part of a network if it is off.
Dr. Bukk The original "fake teeth" site- very funny and well done
Doc Hemp- this guy is out there- a little risqué for a dental site
Replacement Parts Industries, Inc. replacement parts for dental equipment-sterilizers, vacuum, compressors- they deal directly with repair people.
Imaging, Intraoral Cameras Click here for these links
Funny stuff, Food, Music, Games, Web Services , Internet Information,
Web Based Backup, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Search Engines , DSL info, Photos on the web
Design your own web page online Homestead.com- spend a little time and have your own page- low monthly charge- what else could you want. easy designer- you don't have to understand programming- put up your own website for $5/month
Dental Web site designers- Click here for a listing and links.
These companies allow you to back up your important data to a website. No more carrying around tapes, zip disks, Cds etc. Also, if you travel and need access to files, just go to the site and get them.
With the large file size including digital radiographs and photos, this can be gigabytes of file transfer. New high speed access like FiOs will make it practical but right now there are alternate methods. I will put a backup link right here shortly.
Keep in mind that online backup is only one of the offsite backups you should be using.
Note- the Mass Dental Society has just endorsed Amerivault for its members.
The "other" drpaul ( medical pediatric information) a terrific site from my namesake- he is a pediatrician in Canada and has a wealth of patient information. A lot on pediatric allergies and asthma. We actually arranged to meet in Boston a few years ago and seemed to be cosmically connected.
Health Central Dr. Dean Edell, radio doc, has a great resource here. Search for health information and get the latest health news.It is written for the lay person, but can be technical enough to help you answer most medical questions.
WebMD A good resource if you need information on diseases.There are forums and health news.
Proctor and Gamble This web site has a direct and simple link to Medline ( National Library of Medicine) which can search almost all medical journals for information on any medical topic.
Urban legends- (SNOPES.COM) Is Microsoft really giving out hundreds of dollars? Are kidneys being stolen? check out those rumors here. Or another site here Urban legends
Click here for a list of search engines- Google is not the only one as you will see here.
Here is a short list of search engines that use many popular searches simultaneously.
Ask.com This is one of the best search sites. Just type in a question-it seems to understand English. Also askforkids.com This used to be Ask Jeeves and Ask Jeeves for Kids. They have retired Jeeves ( the Butler) for some reason which they give on the website- ( I liked Jeeves).
copernic
This is the only one in the list that requires you to download software. However, it is
worthwhile. You can save the searches on your hard drive. They also recommend two other
products that make web browsing easier. Free download.
Gozilla-
which manages your downloads, and allows you to stop and resume the downloads. It is
especially nice if you have gotten to the end of a 3 hour download and lose
the connection.
Website of all search engines. allonesearch Maybe a little too much information.
dogpile.com Check 13 search engines simultaneously.
mamma.com metasearch engine - 7 web search engines
profusion.com 3 to 9 search engines- you choose
search.com Multiple search engines
alexa a little more interactive search engine
northernlight.com -A different type of site- not only searches web sites but also periodicals and books. Great for research. Fee based.
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