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Word-of-mouth advertising-when one person recommends a product or service to another-ranks at the top of the list of marketing strategies in terms of cost-effectiveness. It costs very little yet delivers excellent results.

Data breaches have become common. There are reports in the news almost weekly about breaches in large corporations such as Target and Neiman Marcus. While these breaches can be upsetting to consumers, they don’t fall into the HIPAA rules as they don’t involve protected health information.

It is general knowledge that the United States is facing a national health care crisis. There is a trend of ever-rising systemic risk factors, including high blood pressure, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, gastric reflux, Alzheimer’s disease and more.

We recently spoke to Larry Bodony, President of exocad America, about the company's plans for the future of the digital workflow and what new applications and software are coming out to realize that future.

These furnaces are also technologically advanced, including sophisticated touchscreens, preset and customizable programming ability and high quality LEDs, allowing you the ultimate control that produces results that will make both your clients and their patients happy.

Read on to see what 20 dental patients said about their visit with their hygienist … and see if any of these patients might be yours. Then check out the best dental-related tweets we found in June.

I had worked in my father’s practice where he had old-fashioned charts. I also worked at a couple larger practices that had other practice management software options.

Dentistry’s renewed emphasis on minimally invasive treatments affords patients the opportunity to receive highly esthetic and natural-looking restorations that preserve as much of their natural tooth structure as possible.

Dr. Walter James Palmer, D.D.S., had 4,714 reviews on Yelp yesterday evening. His rating: 1.5 stars. Is he a terrible dentist? Does he have a slew of bad reviews because of his level of patient care? No. He has terrible reviews because he shot Cecil, the famous and beloved lion in Africa, with a crossbow on July 1st, then later killed him. “I needed a tooth extracted, so Dr. Palmer shot me in the neck with a crossbow, chased and tracked me for 40 hours, and (once I collapsed from pain and...” reads one review from Drew C, who gave him a five-star review.

e live in a world surrounded by technology and, more often than not, it has made our work and personal lives more efficient and organized.

Dr. Mark Hyman of Greensboro, N.C., became aware of tooth whitening 30-some years ago. Here is his take on the Philips Zoom! family of products: During a study done in 1981 of proxy gel for periodontic treatment, the researchers learned one of the negative side effects of the gel was their teeth turned white.

The story of Cecil the lion broke yesterday. I think the story is tragic on several levels. Let me get this out of the way. I think it's deplorable that someone would want to trophy hunt a lion.

Dental implantology remains a major growth area in all levels of the dental workflow. DENTSPLY Implants continues to be a major factor in the implants market, releasing solutions, support and innovations that are pushing the industry forward.

QuickSplint is designed to be worn at night and removed in the morning for a period of up to six weeks or until the patient no longer needs it or is transitioned to a permanent appliance.

How much school missed: 18 percent of parents reported their children missed at least a half a day of school, while 4 percent said their children missed one day, 4 percent reported children missing two days and 6 percent said their children had to miss three or more days.

He told us about the CS 3500, the latest intraoral scanner from Carestream, and how it improves the dentist-lab workflow, how going digital is better for everyone and more. Read on:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Keeping current with technology is like trying to walk up the "down" escalator. If you aren't making a concerted effort to keep moving, you'll be headed in the wrong direction simply by standing still.

In the world of dentistry, your hands are crucial to your livelihood. So what happens when these indispensable tools become injured? One dental hygienist learned the answer the hard way after she tripped on a faulty sidewalk during a lunchtime stroll.

"Regardless, women will be in control of a good portion of practices, making many more major administrative and purchasing decisions. Shortly, 80 percent of all practices may be 100 percent women.

i-CAT, a brand of the KaVo Kerr Group, released its new and enhanced Tx STUDIO 5.4 treatment planning software at the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) Annual Session, San Francisco, Calif.

A new company started by Berkeley and Stanford graduates recently released a toothpaste costing $20 for a 1.7-ounce tube. The paste, called Livionex Dental Gel, can be used for daily brushing and does not include abrasives, detergents, fluoride, triclosan or antimicrobials.

Z-Discs are made of a special blend of zirconia, diamond and ceramic composites. The discs are engineered to demonstrate a combination of thinness (ultra-thin), strength, durability and cutting qualities, said to make this disc the perfect abrasive disc for cut-off of e.max sprues, for finishing of ceramic bridges, for fine detail contouring of interproximals, and for contouring green state zirconia.

I practiced dentistry for 44 years, most of that in private practice. I was able to grow my practice to the top five percent of solo practices in the U.S. in the last five years I practiced. I studied with the masters, and had the best consultants in the business help me attain my practice success.

If you were an early adopter of dental savings plans, the opportunity to capture an untapped fee for service market was exciting.

In the case of baby formula, the need to better understand human iron metabolism has become more urgent with the global popularity of formula and fortified cereals. Adding iron to formula has been an industry standard for decades, in part because about two billion people worldwide – mostly in developing nations – are thought to have chronic anemia and iron deficiency.

We are all looking for high speed handpieces that have great clinical performance and longevity. The AG Neovo Dental Evolve handpieces are one of the great values in dentistry

Dr. Timothy Bizga uses DENTSPLY Caulk's material to perform Class II restorations in an efficient manner.

We recently spoke with Rob Nazzal, CEO of CAP, about some of those recent partner agreements, what it means for their customers and what we can expect to see from CAP for the remainder of the year.

There has been some recent publicity regarding an online scheme where practices are having their patient database accessed by unauthorized individuals. Based on this, some providers have been worried about potential dangers of using electronic health records (EHR) that store patient data on a server database.

As a tool for marketing, email is an easy and cost effective way to keep in touch with dental patients. Many practices collect this information when a patient comes in for his or her first visit.