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Officite Web designs
A leader in custom medical and dental Web sites, Officite can design a Web site specifically for your practice. Experienced Web designers work with you to create a Web site that showcases your practice, attracts new patients, and enhances the value of your services to existing patients.
For more information, call (800) 908-2483.
Customized Web sites from Officite, LLC
With more than 500,000 Internet searches for a dentist every month, Web sites are fast becoming the central marketing focus of successful dental offices. Officite, a leader in customized medical and dental Web sites, has more than 1,000 satisfied clients whose Web sites are attracting new patients, enhancing the experience of current patients, increasing office efficiency, and distinguishing their practices from others in their area.
Officite specializes in designing Web sites that can be found and listed high by leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN. Once prospects find your site, they can make use of a unique feature incorporated into all Officite Web sites that enables new patients to request an appointment anytime, day or night.
For more information, call (800) 908-2483 or visit www.officite.com
TeleVox expands your practice
TeleVox expands your practice into the homes of your patients by providing professionally designed Web sites with interactive patient services. TeleVox custom design service takes into account your practice, your preferences, and your look and feel. Your Web site is uniquely created by Web-design artists who can integrate your choice of colors and your logo or office themes. Your site is designed so your patients and potential patients can find you. TeleVox customer Web sites appear first when searching for optimized keywords.
Televox multimedia CD ROMs can fit in the palm of your hand. They are real CDs shaped like business cards with your logo and contact information on the cover. The most powerful tool in your practice is communication. TeleVox shows you how to use it to your competitive advantage.
For more information, call (800) 644-4266 or visit www.televox.com.
Professional Web sites and much more!
DENPAR is a patient-acquisition and retention program developed to help dentists acquire more patients, increase referrals, and increase the services rendered to existing patients. DENPAR administers three targeted technologies in campaigns, thus asking the dentist and staff to do very little. Within 30 days and three hours of the staff's time, a practice can see a positive impact. In the United States, every second of every working day, four patients choose a dentist. Of those, 66 percent will choose a dentist based on a referral while only 7 percent will choose based on advertising. By affecting a practice referral base by only 10 percent (a 6.6 percent increase), the practice will double advertising output. This is one of the core principles of the DENPAR program.
For more information, call (918) 493-7200 ext. 210 or visit www.denpar.net.
Dental WebSmith blends marketing efforts
Dental WebSmith specializes in promoting your practice online and providing your practice with a world-class presence. Dental WebSmith can create a professional Web site tailored to your practice and loaded with patient education for less than you might expect using professionally developed "building blocks." If you have a specific concept in mind, Dental WebSmith can create a custom site for your practice according to your specifications. Dental WebSmith can even blend your site with your other marketing efforts by incorporating your logo and other elements.
Dental WebSmith clients recognize the value of providing robust content to their patients, and use their sites to enhance marketing of elective dentistry to existing patients as well as potential patients.
For more information, call (800) 606-6422 or visit www.dentalwebsmith.com.
MailSmart delivers the right patients
SmartPractice introduces MailSmart, a service that takes the guesswork and hassle out of attracting new patients and maintaining contact with existing patients. MailSmart offers standard or custom mailing campaigns that deliver the right message to patients or to prospective new patients such as new local residents or people who meet defined demographic criteria.
Whatever your needs, MailSmart can develop a plan to attract new patients, retain current ones, reactivate patients you haven't seen in a while, and advertise new services to increase revenues from routine patient visits. Choose from a variety of practice-building products that are colorful and professionally designed. Free personalization is included.
For complete details, call (800) 522-0800 ext. 319.
Florida Probe Version 4
The ultimate in periodontal charting software now makes it even easier to increase profits by selling needed therapy. New features include ability to chart crowns, implants, and impacted teeth, and to even e-mail printouts. Tooth history printouts show the last six visits with changes and visual overlays of attachment levels. New "speed pass" feature allows recession/hyperplasia, pocket depth, bleeding, and suppuration to be entered at the same time. Six new treatment sheets, a graphical plaque summary chart, video training, improved patient education section, and letter-writing package make this a must-have for every dental office.
For more information, call (877) 357-7623.
Compact CT systems designed for dentists
Imaging Sciences introduces a new, compact cone beam, computed tomography system called the i-CAT™ that provides 3-D, digital analysis of bone structure and tooth orientation. The i-CAT provides dentists and specialists with precise cross-sectional slices of maxillofacial structures, enabling them to select the most suitable implant type, size, and location.
The i-CAT is half the cost of medical CT units and with less radiation than traditional fan-beam computed tomography systems. It requires less than 60 square feet of floor space, allowing dentists to keep the unit in-office, providing a complete solution for more thorough diagnosis and planning and more predicable treatment outcomes.
Leasing options are available. For more information, call (215) 997-5666 or visit www.imagingsciences.com.
New KODAK digital pan/ceph system
The KODAK 8000C Digital Panoramic and Cephalometric System, formerly known as the TROPHYPAN C System, captures standard cephalometric views in seconds. Unlike systems that capture cephalometric views by scanning the patient, the KODAK 8000C uses no moving parts during image acquisition.
The new system features excellent image resolution and quality; two dedicated sensors — one for panoramic and one for cephalometric imaging — for easier operation and reduced chance of sensor misalignment; image size equivalent to an 18 x 24 cm (8 x 10 inch) image to support viewing of all points of interest; automatic soft-tissue filter; and motorized height adjustment and laser beam for precise positioning.
KODAK imaging software integrates with practice-management, cephalometric tracing, treatment-planning, and soft-tissue morphing software. It supports panoramic, TMJ, and maxillary sinus views as well as all standard cephalometric views: lateral, oblique, antero-posterior, postero-anterior, submento-vertex, and carpus.
For more information, call (800) 944-6365.
M&CC introduces NEO CLR cabinetry
M&CC Modular and Custom Cabinets introduces the NEO CLR. These innovative cabinets are the answer to the dual challenge of incorporating computerization and accommodating left- and right-handed dentistry. NEO CLR cabinets have a rear-serve shelf with computer station and also feature Corian® countertops to help minimize cross-contamination.
Standard features include a four-port retraction system, dual-assistant work surfaces and instrumentation, three-handpiece auto control and syringe, and a medical-grade, flush-mounted monitor. A utility wall with 8-inch chase accommodates N2O systems and other devices. It features upper storage for tub and trays, lower CPU storage, and many configurations of drawer modules. NEO CLR series cabinets are available in 25" or 18" depth models to fit any size room.
For more information, call (905) 832-8311, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.mccdental.com.
The Osteo Pillow™ by Crescent Products
If you treat patients who have osteoporosis, osteopenia, osteogenesis imperfecta, or any other painful bone-related illness of the head and neck, the Osteo Pillow is a must-have. It gently cushions the head and neck and offers support for patients who have difficulty bringing their heads to a reclined position in the dental chair. The Osteo Pillow is 2 inches thicker than Crescent's original Dental Headrest™, enabling elderly patients to rest comfortably and also making treatment easier for you.
The Osteo Pillow is made with memory foam, covered in medical-grade vinyl for easy cleaning, and features an elastic strap for secure positioning on the dental chair. It is available in teal green and beige. Cost is $59.95 each.
For more information, call (800) 989-8085 or visit www.crescentproducts.com.
Before-and-after books increase case acceptance
"Dental Diagnosis" features 120 high-quality before-and-after photos of basic dental problems and treatment options such as decay, cracked teeth, bonding, leaky filings, severe abfraction, and more. An excellent tool for hygienists or for quick chairside explanations and consultations, it allows patients to quickly grasp their dental conditions and understand why they need to proceed with needed dental treatment.
"Aesthetic Restorative Dentistry" contains 242 high-quality before-and-after photos of full-mouth esthetic dental problems and restoration options such as porcelain veneers, crowns, fixed bridges, implants, bleaching, and more. It is a fabulous coffee-table book for the waiting room that serves as a tool to showcase what dental options are available. It is an excellent tool for the consultation room as well, dramatically reducing time spent explaining. Patients can diagnose themselves, increasing case acceptance.
For more information, call Health Stuff at (888) 271-7774 or visit www.health-stuff.com.
New Bite-"Buddy"® eliminates guesswork
All Dental ProdX announces its new thermoplastic Bite-"Buddy". It offers every practitioner an alternative to bite registration materials requiring tips, cartridges, and guns. Bite registrations may be taken with Bite-"Buddy" without using a tray to support the material, and it will not compress on an articulator. It is thin enough to trim easily with a slow-speed handpiece and will deliver excellent detail. Most important — there is no guesswork involved. The product turns clear when ready to use and opaque when ready to remove from the mouth.
Bite-"Buddy" is sold in packages of 25. Refer to product number 144700. For technical information or to receive a free sample, call (877) 64-PRODX or e-mail [email protected].
QuiXX® posterior restorative composite
DENTSPLY Caulk introduces QuiXX posterior restorative. QuiXX offers the perfect balance of speed, durability, and simplicity in a posterior restorative material. Using a patented precise filler control system, QuiXX offers a high filler load — 86 percent by weight and 66 percent by volume — that may be dispensed from a Caulk Compule® tip. QuiXX is nonsticky and sculptable. The material may be placed and cured in 4 mm increments in as little as 10 seconds, providing a durable tooth-colored posterior restoration with as much as 48 percent less shrinkage than similar materials, with wear rates comparable to amalgam. The single universal shade offers a metameristic quality allowing it to pick up the color of surrounding dentition for esthetic results. One-year clinical results data are available. For more information, contact your dental dealer or call (800) 532-2855 ext. 794.
New edition of Smile Style Guide
Dr. Lorin Berland introduces the second edition of his Smile Style Guide. The full-color guide details the 18 naturally beautiful incisal shape variations and combinations as well as the four length choices of the front teeth. This simple method of classifying smile designs is critical when considering a smile makeover.
Features such as the size, length, and position of the teeth are determined using the dentist's knowledge of anatomy, function, and esthetic requirements of the patient; other features such as tooth color, shape, and relative lengths can be chosen by the patient.
The Smile Guide is an essential communication tool designed to help patients select the smile they want with clear, easily understandable steps to guide them to the right smile for their unique personalities.
For more information, call (214) 999-0110 or visit www.lorinberland.com.
