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More Greater NY Fun

Mondy and Tuesday were a little quieter (guess that happens when you don't have Bernie Williams or Michael Strahan signing autographs) - this was maybe not so great for the exhibitors, but it was great for us because the exhibitors had a little more time to talk in depth with us about their products.  Some more highlights:

Dr Greitzer @ the Apex booth - little did we know that our client, Dr Geitzer from Tarrytown,  serves as a spokesperson for Apex - he has published several interesting papers in the last few years and we got a chance to talk bonding with him for a while.

On the train down to the show, I read 1-800-DENTIST's Fred Joyal's article in CERECDoctors.com - then lo and behold, I had a chance to discuss the article with the man himself at his booth - he is right - externally marketing CEREC is a little tricky, but internally marketing it can be very successful if executed properly.

The XRite Shade Taker - we've been poking around at a bunch of different shade taking systems - we think we've found the winner - in addition to taking the shade (and converting it to all of the major shade guides) the unit will tell you which shade block to use in the CEREC machine as your 'base shade- while it's not that tough to choose the right block to start with, it's always nice to eliminate guesswork.
I think we might be buying one of these in the next few days.

Marisa and I sat down to be interviewed about MobileTek Labs at the American Express OPEN booth - hopefully our video will make it to the OPEN website at some point, but even if it doesn't we had a good time chatting with the interviewer - it's always good to practice speaking and answering questions about the biz.

Other notable boots/products - very impressed by Snap On Smile's booth and staff - we know how hard Dr Leichtung has been working on SOS and we are glad to see it taking off - we spoke with a product manager at Heraeus who told us that they will be introducing a scannable bite registration materials @ the Yankee show - always good to have more products on the market.

All in all a fun time (except for the $4 sodas) - hopefully next year we will be ready for a booh

Greater NY Dental Highlights

Marisa and I spent a nice chunk of the day down at the show - we ran into a bunch of our clients and schmoozed with a bunch of dental industry folks.

Some quick highlights:

3M Lava COS (Chairside Oral Scanner) demo - very nice mini-theater setup at the 3M Booth with demos every hour - the scanner itself is pretty amazing - rather than taking taking single pix and sticthing them together, the scanner is constantly on as you are waving the wand through the patient's mouth.  It is therefore able to feed a constant stream of data to the machine giving you a 'real time' 3D model as you scan.  was pretty sweet - willn need to look at it closer on another trip downtown.

Mobile 3D Imaging - Mobile 3D Imaging brought their entire mobile unit to the New Tom booth - it's quite  a setup (and of course we love it because it is a similar concept to ours.  The unit is currently operating in Long Island and will begin servicing Westchester County shortly. 

E4D Impression Scanning - E4D itself is looking good - time will tell how the CEREC/E4D war plays out - but either way the impression scanning feature on the E4D is really cool (esp for labs) - we got a chance to play with it a bit - you do have to take quite a few pictures but scanning the impression directly without pouring a model is a big time savings (I can also it being quite useful in the dentist's office - perfect for a patient who won't 'play nice' with the camera - or in a situation when the doc is too busy to scan and design on the spot.

Well -I'm sure we'll have more to report over the next couple of days but these were some biggies.

Off to GNYDM

Heading down to Javits in about 2 hours - should be a lot of fun - looking forward to seeing some friends and some cool new stuff - I will about some of the more interesting products/companies that we come across.

Greater NY CAD/CAM + Technology Sessions

Hi all -it's been a busy time here at MobileTek Labs - haven't been posting much (a new baby will have that effect). But...I was poking around on the website for the Greater New York Dental Meeting to check out the schedule of CAD/CAM and Technology courses - herewith are the courses (and sponsored vendor sessions) that may be of interest to those of you looking to learn more about CAD/CAM and other cool tech stuff.  The full schedule is here - we will be at some of these and around the show - hopefully we will see you down there. 

Sun, 11/30	9 AM - 12 PM and 2 PM - 5 PM	New Technologies For The Dental Practice	Paul Feuerstein, DMD
Sun, 11/30	9 AM - 12 PM	E4D - Digital Impressions and Chairside CAD/CAM at Your Fingertips	Gary Severance, DDS
Sun, 11/30	2 PM- 5 PM	CEREC - The CEREC Audition	Edward R. Schlissel, DDS
Mon, 12/1	9 AM - 12 PM	All Ceramic CAD/CAM Crowns	Gerard Kugel, DMD
Mon, 12/1	2 PM - 5 PM	The Christensen “Bottom Line” on Esthetics Restorative Dentistry	Gordon J Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD
Mon, 12/1	2 PM - 5 PM	New Technologies For The Dental Practice	Paul Feuerstein, DMD
Tues 12/2	9 AM - 12 PM	Current State-of-the-Art Dentistry Panel Discussion	Panel incl Dr Christensen, Dr Malcmacher, Dr Zase, Dr Kugel
Wed, 12/3	9 AM - 12 PM	CEREC - The CEREC Audition	Edward R. Schlissel, DDS
Wed, 12/3	2 PM- 5 PM	E4D - Digital Impressions and Chairside CAD/CAM at Your Fingertips	Gary Severance, DDS
Wed, 12/3	2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Using Technology To Prosper During A Recessionary Economy	Cary Ganz DDS

NYC Tech Meetup Presentation - 5 Minute Video

This past Tuesday, I was given the opportunity to present MobileTek Labs to about 400 tech fols at the NY Tech Meetup at the Interactive Corp HQ in Chelsea - it was a lot of fun and we met some interesting Meetupers - enjoy the video:

Cool 'Virtual Office Manager' software

A cute PR Story about PlanetDDS - I've spoken with BIll Jackson @ Planet DDS and it seems like they are onto something with their 'virtual assistant' and Saas (Software as a Service0 approach to practice management software.  As offices get 'webbier' this sort of software facilitates lots of convenience for dentists and staff (coordinating multiple locations efficiently, checking in on schedules remotely, etc)

Decay Discovery with Raman Spectography

From Roland Piquepaille's 'Emerging Tech' blog on ZDNet.  I think his timeframe of five years may be a tad optimistic but it's interesting to see what's in the works Article..

Prince denies the singing dentist

A singing dentist has been prevented from putting his version of the Prince track Purple Rain on his debut album despite winning over record company bosses  More...

Dental Technology Weekend Linkfest

Welcome to the first in what (I hope) will be a long line of Dental Technology Linkfests - there's ton of great resources and info about dental technology out there, but I know that most of you rarely get the time to check them out - my goal with the linkfests will be to bring you the stuff that I find interesting - in the hope that you will find it worthwhile as well - the focus will primarily be CEREC and other emerging technologies as well as some business ideas and fun stuff (including random posts from dental patients around the web) - Enjoy!

Cool CEREC stories

• Teeth in a day for a patient who could only take limited time off from work (Bath Street Dental - UK)
• Four CEREC machines in service on US Naval Ship 'Mercy' (MedWire via Dental Economics)
• Mobile Moments - Tough Custom Shading - (MobileTek Labs Blog)
   

Business / Practice Management:

• Seth Godin Post - Renowned marketing guru Seth Godin feels the dentist's unique marketing pain (but he makes the case that it's not that unique to dentists) - nobody wants to know about you until their teeth hurt.  In this post, he provides some suggestions on how to 'be there' when the time comes for people to be ready to hear your message - and he also suggests new services that get you 'front and center' in between those times.
• The First Five Minutes (Exceptional Dental Practive Management)
• More dentists Feeling Pain  (Grand Rapids, MI Press)

 

Fun Stuff (Tech, Patient Stories, Non-Dental, etc)

• 3M Chairside Scanner Wins BusinessWeek Design Award  (BusinessWeek)
• Discussion Thread: Unlimited Budget - What Technology Would You Invent For A Dentist? (DentalTown - login Required)
• Another Fine Mesh - Mesh Technology from Microsoft (via Digital Dentist Blog)
• In Chair TV - a new startup looking that brings cinema-display glasses into the dentist’s office to distract patients (and show them ads for dental products!). (TechCrunch)
• A recruiter at Microsoft recounts her dream about teeth (One Louder)

Well - that's it for this edition of the Linkfest - hope you found it interesting - will be posting another before you know it - until then - keep dental truckin' - DB