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My favorite #Gnomedex schwag item so far is the starbucks mug.
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There is something cathartic about loading the mug with six coffee packets, and being ready for a hike, or work.  It sort of feels like I’m preparing for a hunt.
Ok, first impression of Starbucks instant coffee it’s very strong,  I’ll need to dilute it to [...]

I know what it is to be a professional - I operate a dental air engine that spins at 200k in people’s mouths - yep, two hundred thousand RPMs. It’s difficult to imagine what that means, because people can’t imagine 200 thousand RPMs in their mouths. They are usually afraid of the dentist. What it really [...]

I don’t know if Sonicare has sold out or what, but the new design is similar to every other sonic brush out there.  They have redesigned the head, and eliminated the magnets that would be shaken back and forth by the counter rotating current in the handle.   I believe the oral B sensonic has a [...]

I got to ride a bionx bike the other day,  it was a helluva rush to pedal a couple of times and feel like you’re being towed, it was a silent, awesome experience.  My commute is 5 miles, but it’s up hill home, bionx also regenerates with the breaking so I would be making power [...]

This may be a short post, I know Chris doesn’t like the shorter posts, but I thought this to be worthwhile.  Over the years I have had many patients that have imparted their wisdom to me, there was one in particular that I have never forgotten.
He was a gristled farmer, hands and face worn from [...]

Sometimes we dentists feel like we’re in charge of the confessional “Dr I haven’t flossed for a year, Dr I know I clench my teeth, Dr I know I should have gotten that crown”  “Ok Mrs O’malley give me three flossings, one fluoride treatment, a cleaning and you are forgiven”    I get it all [...]

Sigh……
My entry for TechCrunch was denied, I think it will be a wonderful show this year, and I would have loved to have gone.  Over two grand for a conference is just too steep even for this dentist.  The staff at TechCrunch were wonderful, my interviewer was nice, courteous, and fun to talk with.  As [...]

  I would never have taken one of my best friends to Bokka, it’s a fine wine bar, but we’re beer guys.  Listening to you at your book signing was my idea, I love wine library TV, and I thought it would appeal to Rick as well.    Beer talk at a wine bar with one [...]

They did it, they moved the show. I feel like we Americans are kind of like Frankenstein, we are the geniuses not willing to leave well enough alone with God and life, tinkering with things we aught not tinker with. We end up with an abomination.
Top Gear has grown and been seasoned since 1977. NBC [...]

Chris sent me a link that led me to this… thanks Chris.
I love my intraoral cameras, last year at Gnomedex I was the only one interviewed that claimed my favorite tech gadget was a digital x-ray sensor, this year it’s my intraoral camera.
Intraoral cameras are the best teaching aids for dentists ever. When I [...]