Quick Announcement: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, there will be only one post this week. We will return to our normal publishing schedule next week on Tuesday, November 30, 2021.
Virtual reality (VR) refers to technology that creates interactive, simulated environments.
In February, the magazine Dentistry Today published an article that proclaimed 2021 as the year of 3D printing in dentistry. The article evinces an optimism about the technology’s ability to help professionals in a variety of ways, particularly with restorative dentistry.
In the June 2021 issue of Dental News, a team of dental professors, graduate students, and computer researchers from Montreal published an article summarizing basic information and current trends relating to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in dental care.
Quick Announcement: Starting this week, the Titan Tech blog will release two posts a week, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday, instead of just one post a week. Stay tuned for more tech news.
Teledentistry refers to any means of patient care using digital technology.
In the past, many dental practices have relied on established marketing techniques to communicate with their existing customers and solicit new ones. These methods include mail marketing--as well as mail reminders for appointments--, phone calls, and ads in local newspapers and magazines.
It's very difficult, if not impossible, to provide the best dental care without the use of imaging technology. Luckily, there have been numerous developments in dental imaging tech over the past few decades. Even older forms of radiological imaging, like x-rays, can be augmented and improved with modern computing.
-Quick announcement: Today, we're kicking off a series of blog posts focusing on particular business sectors and how they relate to IT. Our first set of blogs will focus on dental practices. Watch out for more announcements in future posts.
At the end of June, Dentistry Today, the popular online trade magazine, interviewed Mike Baird, the CEO of Henry Schein One, which provides a variety of software products for dental practices.
Quick Announcement: Following the testimony of Frances Haugen to the US Senate, Facebook's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, published a blog post in which he defended Facebook's policies against hate speech, claiming that the prevalence of hate speech on the platform has dropped 50% over the past nine months.
Even though we usually focus on issues of technology, cybersecurity, and business on this blog, we're going to do something a little different today. We are going to explore the legal issues surrounding the controversies relating to Facebook that began last week.
On Monday of this week, Facebook as well as other apps owned by Facebook, like Instagram and Messenger, experienced a full system outage for about six hours. As a result, many users were not able to log into their accounts, instead receiving an error message upon visiting the sites’ URLs. The problem has since been fixed—everyone should be able to log into their accounts now—, and there doesn’t appear to be any evidence of foul play.