Techie
Recycling False Teeth for Charity
Dr. Teeth 9 April, 2008
(1) Comment Japan has discovered the latest recyclable item – false teeth!
Denture deposit boxes have appeared in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka in response to a request by the charity, the Japan Society for the Recycling of Dentures.
The JSRD plans to set up hundreds of false teeth collection boxes in cities across Japan to raise funds for UNICEF.
‘People on average get new dentures every three years, because the condition of their teeth changes,’ explained the charity’s founder Isao Miyoshi.
‘Once the new ones are made, dentists usually give the old ones back to the patients.
‘But most people don’t know what to do with them and they end up keeping them in their drawers. That’s really a waste of something useful.’
When dentures are recycled, the precious metals are extracted and sold.
About 80% of the proceeds are given to charities like UNICEF Japan.
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Dentistry training in a virtual world
Dr. Teeth 21 March, 2008
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Researchers in the States have developed a lifelike dental training simulator that allows student to ‘feel’ an on-screen 3D mouth.
Using haptic virtual reality, the tools simulate the sensation of touching, poking and scraping in the virtual mouth.
PerioSim has been developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s colleges of dentistry and engineering and a control panel allows students to pick the procedure and instrument.
Students can guide a stylus – which resembles an explorer – to navigate through various periodontal procedures including examining calculi on the tooth root, measuring pocket depth, detecting calculus and applying treatment through post-surgical evaluation.
The interface also allows users to adjust the model position, viewpoint, and transparency level of the ‘virtual’ mouth.
‘We can enhance the learning and training of a wide variety of tasks or procedures using this system,’ said Dr Arnold Steinberg, professor of periodontics at UIC.
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Amazing Dental Chair Design
Dr. Teeth 6 March, 2008
(1) Comment The idea behind this design is the unfriendly equipment when we enter the dental hospitals. To ease nervous and tense feeling of patients, the dental chair has to be clean and simple, and instruments have to be quiet and inconspicuous. Chengli Hung designed this chair to hide and integrate different parts of components into a new-moon shape main body. It simplified the whole appearance by decreasing unnecessary parts and concealing complex mechanism. Most elements are hidden inside the body shells. This makes the dental chair easier to keep clean.
Isn’t it amazing if we could work on these types of Dental Chairs. No matter what, i am surely in love with this and crave to own one!
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Dental Laser at Hyderabad
Dr. Teeth 10 February, 2008
(10) Comment Dental Lasers are an exciting and sophisticated innovation in the Dental profession. It is capable of minimizing patient discomfort, enhancing recovery times and improving the efficiency of the Dental office.
Dental Lasers are not common in India because of their high price. The first Dental office to bring Dental Lasers in South India is Ameerpet Dental Hospitals, the latest being Partha Dental both located in Hyderabad.
They have seen tremendous increase in their OP since the Laser setup as more and more patients are opting this as it reduces the need for Anesthetics, lack of needles, drilling, and pain.
Lasers are used to perform various hard and soft tissue procedures, coagulation, bacterial decontamination, Teeth Whitening, etc.
If you are planning to expand or setup a new Dental office, do not forget to include Dental Lasers in your high priority list.
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Visible Body
Dr. Teeth 10 December, 2007
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Argosy’s Visible Body is the most comprehensive
human anatomy visualization tool available today.
This entirely Web-delivered application offers an
unparalleled understanding of the human body.
The Visible Body includes over 1,700 anatomical
structures, including all major organs and systems
of the human body.
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Solar Powered Toothbrush
Dr. Teeth 7 December, 2007
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“Soladey?J3X” is a toothbrush that can remove accumulated plaque completely through the workings of minus electrons. The electronic power is upgraded with the double power of a semiconductor + solar panel, attaining a high plaque removal level.
More on the Soladey on their web site.
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The New Oral B Triumph
Dr. Teeth 7 December, 2007
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New Oral-B® Triumph™ with SmartGuide™ is the most technologically advanced toothbrush on the market. It is the first toothbrush to combine best-in-class cleaning and gum care with wireless technology that promotes better brushing in real time. Triumph with SmartGuide features a wireless display – the first in the category – that helps you brush better, longer and gentler.
Brush Better. Oral-B Triumph with SmartGuide’s oscillating-rotating technology has been clinically proven to remove significantly more plaque than the next best performing toothbrush, healing and reversing gingivitis for healthier teeth and gums.
Oral-B’s FlossAction™ brushhead with patented MicroPulse™ bristles gently removes plaque between teeth and along the gum line.
Oral-B’s dentist-inspired PowerPolisher™ brush head erases 60 percent more stains, for whiter teeth.
Features clean, massage, soft and polishing brushing modes.
Brush Longer. The wireless display tracks brushing time, taking the guess work out of brushing to help you brush as dentists recommend.
Notifies user every 30 seconds to brush another area of the mouth and when user has brushed for two minutes.
With Triumph with SmartGuide, you are four times more likely to brush up to the dental-recommended two minutes than with a manual brush.
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New CT Scanner
Dr. Teeth 7 December, 2007
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From the BBC News web site. Go check out the video
A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by as much as 80%.
The new 256-slice CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final detailed images.
It also generates images in a fraction of the time of other scanners: a full body scan takes less than a minute.
The Philips machine was unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America.
Because the images are 3D they can be rotated and viewed from different directions - giving doctors the greatest possible help in looking for signs of abnormalities or disease.
All images also can be accessed on any computer in a hospital or by colleagues and researchers remotely, to make it easier for the whole team to share information.
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Humanoid robot teaches dentists to feel people’s pain
Dr. Teeth 7 December, 2007
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A group of robot and computer makers presented the high-tech dental patient in Tokyo at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition, a four-day technology showcase that opened Wednesday.
The medical simulation robot, named “Simroid,” is designed to be used for clinical training at dental schools, said Tatsuo Matsuzaki, an official at robot maker Kokoro Company Ltd., which developed the body and control system.
The 160-centimeter (five-foot-three) robot can say “it hurts” and frown when it feels uncomfortable from the dental drill.
“Because it’s so real, dental trainees can see patients’ feelings and will be able to develop good skills as they treat it, not as an object, but as a human being,” Matsuzaki said.
Read more on the Phyorg web site
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EWOO Technology CBCT, Pan, Ceph
Dr. Teeth 7 December, 2007
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One of the larger booths at the GNYDM was from Ewoo Technology. They were displaying a number of imagining products including the Picasso Trio which is a CBCT, Panoramic, Cephlametric unit. You can get the unit without the Cephlametric. The images looked good and they were offering $20K discount with the trade in of your old Panorex machine. The EzImplant 3D software looked easy to use and the images were very good.
Check out more and the videos on the EWoo Technology website.
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New Troque Wrench
Dr. Teeth 26 November, 2007
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“JDentalCare has designed and developed JDTorque® the patent pending torque wrench for surgical and prosthetic use.
JDTorque® is a universal wrench; it can be used as a torque wrench or as a traditional ratchet for every implant system with an appropriate adapter.
The high mechanical resistance with the great elasticity of the plastic material PEEKTM allow JDTorque® to measure torque up to 80 Ncm, that represents an absolute news for this type of instruments.This material is extremely light compared with metals and can undergo thousands sterilization cycles at temperatures up to 134°C without changing its mechanical characteristic.Particularly simple to use, the torque wrench doesn’t require any mounting or dismounting allowing to save time even during intervention of maintenance.
Design, functionality, easiness and lightness make this instrument absolutely unique
More on the web site www.jdentalcare.com its in both English and Italian
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