Week 2 - Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors - The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Part 2

Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors

-Good Image Quality - Part 1
-Reliability - Part 2
-Price - Part 3
-Functionality - Part 4

Reviewed Sensors:
-Eva by Dent-X (AFP Imaging)
-SuniRay-Suni Corporation (Orange Dental)
-Dixi 3-Planmeca
-Dexis Platinum-Dexis
-CDR Elite-Schick
-Kodak RVG6100- Kodak (Owned By Carestream Now)

Part 2: Reliability

Reliability seems like a very difficult item to judge. Digital X-Ray companies do not fall under the same systems that govern auto parts or other industrial items where the failure rate is known to a very good accu........ Read the rest of the Week 2 - Digital Xray Sensor Review here!

Hardware Drivers For Your Technology

The other day we decided to move a film scanner that we use for scanning digital radiographs and intra oral images to a different computer.  It only took a few minutes to move the radiograph scanner to the other computer but once I plugged ............ Read the rest of the Hardware Drivers For Your Technology article here!

Skip the Robot, Talk to a Person

These days, calling technical support can be a real nightmare for a number of reasons: long hold times, unintelligible outsourced operators, and “Tier 1” technicians who almost inevitably know less about the product in question than you do. But the worst of all tech-support injustices is the automated frustration dispensers that companies sometime employ to put you through a labyrinth of touch-tone menus before you can talk to a real person.

But you don’t have to put up with all of that, thanks to Gethuman.com, which tells you—on a company by company basis—exactly what number to call and what buttons to press to get through to a real, human operator.

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Apteryx Integration Button Within Practiceworks

Our company supports just about every practice management and image management program thats available for dental practices and two of the most common programs we support is Practiceworks and Apteryx.

If you use one of the variations of the Apteryx imaging software (Prof.Suni, XrayVision, Lightyear, etc) than you know that Apteryx utilizes a program called NameGrabber to "sniff" out patient information from your practice management software and pull it into Apteryx.......... Read the rest of the Apteryx Integration Button Within Practiceworks instructions here!

Top 7 Reasons a Good Back Up Solution Is Necessary

1. Redundancy:

Redundancy will allow you to sleep well at night knowing that no matter what happens your patient information is safe and secure and can be recovered within a a day or two and have your practice up and running without issue.

........ Read the rest of this Top 7 Reasons a Good Back Up Solution Is Necessary list here!

Online Backups, How Fast Can You Upload?

When configuring an online backup for a client today I came to realize just how important it is to inform our dentists about the importance of the internet speeds in their office and how it can effect your online backups.

Your average cable Internet line is going to run at around 1MB/s if you're lucky. This would equate to 1GB of patient information taking approximately 10 HOURS to upload to your online backup. The smallest patient database that I have come across has been about 40GB, and that was in an office that just started using digital imaging. With digital imaging their database will easily grow to 200GB+ very quickly.

You're best best would be to contact your Internet service provider and inquire about getting an upgrade in your upload speeds or consider getting a dedicated T1 line. T1 lines are generally guaranteed 99.9% up time so there would never be and variation in your upload/download speeds.

To check your upload and download speeds just check out SpeedTest.net.

Forget Quality Diagnosis and Patient Treatment, Increase Your Practice’s Production!

These days it seems that all I see are dental technology integration companies pitching an increase in a practice’s production numbers. It’s not too often you’ll hear a dental technology integration company advertising better patient diagnosis, quicker treatment times, or better quality treatment.

Don’t get me wrong, money is important to everyone, how else would we support our families? I just feel that money and an increase in a dental practices production shouldn’t be the main focus when discussing dental technology. At Sodium Systems we know that your main focus as a dentist is providing quality dental care and we take this into consideration when discussing dental technology with you.

At Sodium Systems LLC our mission is to provide you with the highest quality in dental technology tools available enabling you to provide superior dental diagnosis and treatment to your patients efficiently and effectively. We can discuss production numbers all day long but at the end of the day it should really be about how well you have treated your patients. By providing quality dental technology products we put the tools in your hands and when we put those tools in your hands we will provide thorough training for you and your staff. Quality dental technology combined with the best in technology training will enable you to be the best dental practitioner you can be.

When you start working with Sodium Systems an account executive will be assigned to your office. Your account executive will be with you every step of the way ensuring that you are given as good a treatment as you provide your patients. Each one of our account executives are experts in dental technology and have a main focus of finding out exactly what you want to offer your patients and tailoring a package to exactly what you need to provide excellent dentistry to your patients.

By focusing on quality dentistry you will greatly increase your patient loyalty and your patient referrals. Sodium Systems still wants to help you make more money, but the two come hand in hand in this situation. If more of your patients are telling their friends about you and how fantastic your office is, the more money your practice will make!

Want to meet your account executive? Submit a contact request!