Turkey Trivia Quiz [1].
Happy Thanksgiving, Click the link above for fun Turkey Trivia. High score so far = 15

[1] http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/trivia.asp

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Comfort for your patient; comfort for you…it means a lot, doesn’t it? Easy access to essential tools. Convenient light positioning. A monitor close at hand. Positioning that reduces stress on your musculoskeletal system. Today’s ergonomic dental chairs and equipment offer all the good things that can make your guests comfy and your team efficient, healthy, [...]

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Area Code Listing, by Number [1].
The above site is very simple and very useful. Have you ever wondered where a certain area code is coming from? This site has the answer.

[1] http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html

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With a direct sensor the digital radiography image can be viewed on the computer screen in as little as four or five seconds after the sensor is exposed. This speed of acquisition with a direct sensor provides a great benefit which is almost never discussed. That is that the user can view the image before the sensor leaves the patient’s mouth.  If you miss the apex, cone cut the distal or overlap the interproximal you can see the error in seconds and make the necessary positioning adjustments to the sensor or the cone to get a perfect image.
With film you would not know about the problem until the film was processed and then you would have no reference point to return to to improve the image.

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I saw this at the ADA in San Francisco. It was one of many new products in the rapidly expanding Cone Beam market. What I liked about this was the clarity of the images.

TeraRecon’s PreXion 3D is a revolutionary X-ray system that provides high-resolution solutions in dental imaging. Powered by TeraRecon’s proprietary image reconstruction and volumetric image rendering technology, PreXion 3D provides sharper images with more information than the traditional dental X-ray unit. It’s the ideal in-office imager for the specialist performing implants.
With TeraRecon’s clear and 1:1 scale images, accurate measurements assure that the optimum implant is placed. Patient treatment is improved with the powerful computed tomography technology and its precise measurement tools. Accurate dental implant planning and placing, orthodontic investigation, and improved general dental imaging are some of the many true benefits PreXion 3D delivers.
In just 19 seconds, TeraRecon’s PreXion 3D acquires 512 initial X-ray views which are ‘reconstructed’ into a 3D dataset of the patient’s anatomy. Conversion to DICOM 3 is built-in and compatible with all major 3rd party software and systems (NobelGuide, Simplant, ILS, I-Dent, Dolphin, and others).
Revolutionary 3D CBCT | PreXion 3D | TERARECON, INC. [1].

[1] http://www.prexion3d.com/3dct.html

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