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July Features "Hot" Topics in Perio & Hygiene!

RDHLFA - Thursday, July 24, 2008

in Hygiene Happenings

Welcome to summer! By now most of us across the country are enjoying the 'lazy' days of summer. While our temptation to sit back and relax, here at Dentalcompare we recognize that most of us never resist the opportunity to update our knowledge.

To that end, we hope you enjoy this mon...
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Experiential Learning!

RDHLFA - Thursday, July 24, 2008

in Hygiene Happenings

Last weekend marked the first workshop of it's kind. "It's Academic...Let's Present It!" was lead by a stellar faculty and key industry partners, Discus Dental, Philips/Sonicare, PennWell & Dentalcompare. As reported in a Journal of the American Dental Association June 2008 Commentary/Edit...
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NC Receptionist Charged With Embezzlement and Distributing Controlled Substances

TDuncan - Wednesday, July 23, 2008

in The Dental Implant Blog

Anita Michelle Reed link was charged with the above two counts last week in Mars Hill, NC. She is alleged to have taken over $3,000 in cash and calling in prescriptions of hydrocodone...
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Pillar Palatal Implant System: Expect To Hear More About It

TDuncan - Wednesday, July 23, 2008

in The Dental Implant Blog

Medtronic just bought Restore Medical link which developed and tested this system link
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Blogstumble: Ultradent’s Blog

TDuncan - Wednesday, July 23, 2008

in The Dental Implant Blog

Dr. Dan Fischer link, CEO & President of Ultradent, has a corporate blog link. Add this to the list of corporations that recognize ...
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Bone Profilers Make Room for Abutment Flares

johnkwan - Monday, July 21, 2008

in GumBonyLicious

When placing implants the drills are typically straight up and down. Therefore your osteotomy is the same shape. If the coronal edge of the implant is below the crest of the bone then you have to flare the bone to accomodate the change in diameter between the implant and the abutment. ...
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Microfabrica makes some dang small stuff!!!

johnkwan - Monday, July 21, 2008

in GumBonyLicious

This past Friday I flew down to lovely Santa Barbara for a meeting with some dental heads and Microfabrica. I'll drop some names now: Pat Roetzer DDS, inventor and patent holder of Ultradent and Danville Materials products, Dennis Shanelec DDS the father of periodontal microsurgery and my ment...
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Getting our money's worth.....NOT

gweisman - Thursday, July 17, 2008

in Dental Dish

Consider this truth......
The U.S. spends twice as much on health care per capita than most other industrialized nations but ranks lower than those nations on a number of criteria.....I read this this morning in the NY Times Business section.

For the report, Cathy Schoen, senior v...
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DIODES: SO MANY TO USE...HOW DO I CHOOSE?

jonathanbregman - Thursday, July 17, 2008

in Laser Tag

DIODES they are everywhere! How amazing that in the past four to five years there has been a literal explosion of not only the technology but the use of diode laser-assisted dentistry. Look in every publication and diode lasers are front and center. Laser-assisted dentistry was not that ...
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Surgery was necessary vs the Perioscope

johnkwan - Wednesday, July 16, 2008

in GumBonyLicious

I saw a patient a couple of months ago that had a 20+ year old implant with bone loss and pocketing. Reviewing the xr I could see residual cement that had been there for 20+ years. SO I said: "let's use the Perioscope to remove the cement".

I got in with the scope and found cement ri...
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