Male Vs. Female Dentists.
Dentists May 15th, 2012
…male dentists (46%) have been perceived as more likely to expect the patient to endure pain compared with female dentists (8%).
From an interesting article about the differences between male and female dentists.
What Is It With Posts?
Dentists May 14th, 2012
…and why would you request that I leave you a space for a post when:
- The tooth has a crown that has been stable for many years.
- There are no recurrent caries.
- I will be accessing through the crown to do the root canal work.
- You will just need to patch the crown up afterwards.
The post is not necessary for retention of the core and stability of the crown; and yet if used it will increase root fracture potential for the tooth.
I Cannot Recommend Abeldent.
Office July 2nd, 2011
Don’t you wish that there are more objective reviews and comparisons of dental practice management software on the web? I’ve wished the same thing for years. Choosing a package with which to run your office is a huge commitment in cost and staff education. How that package scales with you, is supported by the manufacturer, and streamlines your office is something that you can really only figure out after you use one for a prolonged period of time. Reviewing and comparing these software packages in that depth is something that just isn’t really practical.
Every producer of these packages has testimonials and positive reviews on their website. They all say they do the really important stuff that we dentists need them to do. So, how can you really choose which one might work best for your office?
The answer is that each and every one of them will work for you. The pluses and minuses that each has washes out in the end if the software is continuously updated by the manufacturer. And most of the popular packages are updated regularly.
In the end, as so many things in life are, word of mouth carries the greatest impact in choosing a package. Packages that people have used or seen in other offices, that staff learned in school, and that people hear others speaking of positively will tend to generate more sales. Social media is a great way, if not the best way, to market your product with that word of mouth thought behind it.
Unfortunately word of mouth advertising can kick you in the ass and if you decide to open up the web as your mouthpiece, expect that you might have some bad stuff indelibly placed on the web for all to see forever…
Six Canals in a Lower Molar?
Morphology May 11th, 2011
I don’t need too many words for this one. Our patient’s dentist had started the root canal work, found 3 canals, got blocked apically, and then referred.
My post-op film:
Too many canals spread wide to get them all in one shot. In the mirror, lingual is to the right, mesial is to the top of the picture:
In the mirror, from top left to bottom right we have MB, M, ML canals:
In the mirror, you can see DB and D canals:
In the mirror there are D and DL canals:
Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine and Autism.
Etcetera January 14th, 2011
An investigative reporter goes through all of the cases in Andrew Wakefield’s “study” and finds that he faked it. Here’s the link.
What a not-surprise. So all you people that believe the pariahs (because they are always the loudest voices) might now be a bit confused after reading that.
Those quacks are laughing at how gullible you are because you believed them when they told you that vaccines will kill your children. They are still trying to understand how a bit of misinformation about government and business conspirators worked so well to make you not have your flu shot.
What another not-surprise that our emergency departments here in Ontario are overloaded this year with patients suffering from the flu.
Listen to people who actually know what they are talking about. Weigh the benefits and risks. What are the chances of dying from a serious illness that the vaccine can help prevent or minimize versus dying from the vaccine itself?
It’s one thing to ride the slipstream of an immunized population. Chances are if you’re not immunized you won’t catch the germ anyway because nobody is carrying it. That’s all gonna change as more and more of you people decide to let your bodies handle disease “naturally”. Death is quite natural. Transmission of viruses is quite “natural”. And those two things will increase as that slipstream you’ve been riding slows right down. That slipstream will slow down as fast as people are gullible.
*shaking head and rolling eyes at Jenny McCarthy*