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Entries from July 2005

Who Presents Your Teatment Plans???

July 31st, 2005 · No Comments

There is a whole new approach, which I must say truly works, take yourself  (Dr.) out of the case presentation and get your  Team to training to do these for you. You case acceptance will be greater and so will the total dollar amounts on your treatment plans. Get your Team trained to handle the consultations. Team members […]

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Tags: Case Presentation · Continuing Education · Cosmetic Dentistry · Dental Diamonds · Dental Websites · Digital Photography · Events · Insurance · Marketing · New Patients · Patient Service · Practice Management · Resources · Uncategorized

Top 25 Dental Products – Loops with illumination

July 31st, 2005 · No Comments

I cannot imagine practicing dentistry without the aid of magnification and illumination.  I started with 2.0x flip ups and have worked my way up to the 4.8x through the lens fixed magnification.  It is unbelievable what you can see that you could not see with the naked eye.  I use a pair of loupes from […]

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Tags: Cosmetic Dentistry · Dental Diamonds · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Top 25 Dental Products – Oraqix needle free anestheiic

July 31st, 2005 · No Comments

What are the most dreaded words you can hear from your hygienist when you are in the middle of something?  “Doctor, I need a hygiene check, or Doctor, I need anesthesia for my patient.”  This product will not help with the first question, but it has just about eliminated the second one in my practice.  […]

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Tags: Dental Diamonds · Hygiene · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Top 25 Products – Dental Marketing

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

O.K., this is not a product per say, but is perhaps the biggest thing you can do in 2005. Dentistry is finally being presented in the media with a positive spin. Extreme Makeover, The Swan, magazine articles, news clips, etc. are raising awareness of what dentistry can do for the population at large. We need […]

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Tags: Dental Diamonds · Dental Websites · Marketing · New Patients · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Top 25 Products – A Great Dental Office Phone System

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

We have had many different phone systems in our office over the years.  Some have cost a small fortune.  Four years ago I scrapped our existing phone system an bought a 4-Line Multi-Handset Cordless Phone System from Panasonic.  The base station is the only unit that has to br plugged into the phone jacks.  All […]

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Tags: Dental Diamonds · New Patients · Patient Service · Practice Management · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Top 25 Products – XM Satellite Radio for the dental office

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

Music in the dental office is very important in creating a relaxed mood.  Commercial radio with obnoxious commercials is entirely inappropriate.  XM Satellite radio gives you a choice of 150 digital channels that are 100% commercial free.  You need a $99 receiver and a $49 antennae that connects to your office receiver with RCA jacks.  […]

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Tags: Dental Diamonds · Patient Service · Technology · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Top 25 Products – Axis Finishing Strip

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

This finishing strip has a serrated edge to get through a contact and a finishing edge to finish the job.  www.axisdental.net.

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Tags: Cosmetic Dentistry · Dental Diamonds · Top 25 · Uncategorized

Canon EOS 20D Secrets #2

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

If you need lighting fast ISO settings you can change the factroy default to allow an ISO setting of 3200. Go to custom function and set it for ISO expansion. It comes up “H” on the top of the LCD control panel. There is more digital noise at this ISO however that is a small […]

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Tags: Digital Photography

Canon EOS 20D secrets #1

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

Have you notice that when using a scene mode your color is more vivid compared to using manuel or program mode? Well there is a reason for this. The factory defaults are set to Parameter 1 (vivid color) for scenes and Parameter 2 (natural color) for standard exposure modes. Solution: Go to Parameters in the […]

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Tags: Digital Photography

Bokeh

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

Most photograhers are concerned with lens sharpness. The ability of a lens to produce image sharpness that far surpasses the ability of the human eye. However there are other important qualities to think about in a lens. One of these factors is lens bokeh ( pronounced “bo” as in bowling and “ke” as in kept). […]

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