One of my employees in the Dental Technology Division just found out something that may help a lot of practices who experience new networking problems as they upgrade their computer systems.  As an example he gave me the lowdown on PracticeWork’s BTRIEVE errors.
Scores of PracticeWorks users have seen these.  They typically look like "BTRIEVE ERROR: [...]

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Dale Miles has another great overview of the whole digital radiography world Read the whole article here: LearnDigital..Digital Radiography [1]

Who should adopt digital x-ray imaging – and when is it time to buy?There are three “stages” in the typical clinician’s career:1. the recent graduate (in practice 1-5 years) 2. the “mid-career” dentist (in practice more than 10 years)3. the “soon-to-be-retired” dentist (getting ready to sell the practice).Which of these groups needs to go digital? In my opinion, all three. And when should they buy? Immediately!
Dale’s article has some very basic information as well as advanced concepts regarding image enhancement. He also includes charts listing and comparing all the major brands.

[1] http://www.learndigital.net/solid_state.htm

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Kavo has released the new slim and sexy Diagnodent. It is so new it isn’t even on the Kavo web page  here [1]?

This new model eliminates the base unit, it is easier to calibrate, extremely portable and costs just a bit more than the old version.

[1] http://www.kavousa.com/default.asp

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