Dental Products Report interview


In an article published recently “Does your Cone Beam CT see too much?“, Dental Products Report (DPR)  senior editor: Noah Levine; discussed the introduction of Cone Beam CT  to dentists as a new modality that provides 3D information depth and allows new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment planning. But what about the image volume  readout? What about liability and what are the possible ways for practitioners to handle their CBCT scan of their patients?

The full article can be found by following the link here

Marcilan, the short story

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The AAOMR congress came and went and what’s left is good memories and a hope to be able to make it next year. Anatomage is coming up with InVivoDental 5 pretty soon. Infinitt PACS software  looked very promising and Kodak will be releasing v2.2 of their free CBCT software which has many powerful features. The software will be reviewed once I get my hands on them. Continue reading

And we are going Spanish

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Marcilan will be coming to Spanish thanks to Dr. LUCIANA MARIA  FERNANDES who is helping us a lot with the Portuguese translation as well. Dr. Fernandes is a dentist graduated in Dental School of Araraquara- University of the State of São Paulo (UNESP-2004). She is a dental radiologist (Specialization in Dental Radiology) by Dental School of the University of São Paulo (FOUSP- 2007); and right now she is studying to get her master degree in Stomatology, in Bauru Dental School of the University of São Paulo (FOB-USP-2009).

In addition, Dr. RONALD ORDINOLA ZAPATA will offer his help with the Spanish translation as well Continue reading

MARCILAN is coming to the AAOMR

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I always look forward to the American Academy meeting of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology every year. It’s been always a good chance to meet with colleagues, friends, and new folks who joined the academy or have interest in the specialty, and this year is no exception. Continue reading

Adobe Opens iPhone to Flash Developers

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Yes, you heard it right! Finally you’ll be able to run Flash based apps directly on your iPhone. This is one of the best exciting news coming from Adobe during the Max conference this year. The iPhone has been one of the best if not the best selling mobile phone on the market. There are many great applications created for the iPhone, with over 2 billion apps downloads from the app store. However, Flash support has been lacking from day one thanks to Apple. Currently, there is no web plug-in to run Flash Player 10.1 on the iPhone Continue reading

Introduction to InVivoDental

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InVivoDental from Anatomage® is one of the available software in the market for DICOM data set viewing. It is primarily used to view Cone Beam CT volumetric data set for diagnosis and treatment planning in the dental field. It is provided either as a 3rd party application that can be purchased and installed or bundled with some of the Cone Beam CT scanners in the market. InVivoDental is geared towards the dental field and provides intuitive tools for data set manipulation, volume rendering, synthetic panoramic rendering (Super Pano), synthetic lateral ceph (Super Ceph), reslicing, superimposition, implant planning, stitching (sold separately), and reports.  Continue reading

Adobe unveils first full Flash player for mobile devices and PCs

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At Adobe Max 2009 conference, Adobe CTO, Kevin Lynch discussed the future of Flash on mobile devices. He demonstrated Flash Player 10.1 on different phones.

Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are. Continue reading