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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

 

Mouth Makeover Journal

Looks like this radio personality in Asheville, NC had been chronicling his mouth makeover during the last few months - check out the blog and the post where he calls CEREC the 'coolest thing I've ever seen at a dentist's office'

Selected to demo - Tuesday 8/5 @ 7 PM at NY Tech Meetup

Exciting news to report – we’ve been selected to present at the monthly ‘NY Tech Meetup’ on Tuesday 8/5 @ 7 PM.  We get five minutes up on stage in front of a crowd of about 400 NY tech folks (web people, marketers, etc, etc).  It’s at the Interactive Corp headquarters along the West Side Highway on

18^th street

(the funky glass Frank Gehry building that went up about 3 years ago)

 
The five minute shpiel is going to be pretty straight and to the point about what we do (make teeth fast for dentists all around the city and Triststate area) – I think (hope!) the crowd will dig the tech aspect of it.

I would love it if you can come – the only trick is that the initial sign up for the event is limited to 100 people and the psots are already filled up, but I believe more spots will be opening up later today (I’m still working on getting the scoop – we just got word late yesterday afternoon that we were selected)

So..if you think you can come:

1 Check out the page for the event: http://newtech.meetup.com/1/calendar/8258293/
2 Make a Meetup account right now
3 I believe that if you ‘subscribe’ to the mailing list for NY Tech Meetup you will receive a message when the extra spots open up
4 RSVP when the spots open up
5 Come on down on Tuesday night

The event starts at 7 and goes til about 8:30 – don’t know which slot we will have.Hope you can make it – but if you can’t – don’t worry – I will probably videotape it and post