Scan Now, Worry Later

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Are you watching other practices go fully digital and feeling left behind? Don’t get rattled. You can live without your own printer or mill provided you have a competent scanner—and a talented, reliable, high-tech lab partner. By Brian Denby INCORPORATING AN intraoral scanner into your practice involves several ...

Here and Now

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Sometimes our best days feel like they’re behind us. Other times, we dream of what lies ahead. Right between retirement and my next chapter, I found myself living vividly in the moment—and considering both perspectives. By Alan Stern, DDS MARY WAS THE last patient of my 42-year career. I even came in special for ...

Power Station

By: Larry Cohen

We’re not sure why this British-made early-twentieth-century cabinet was imported to the United States, but its unique combination of craftsmanship and innovation makes it well worth preserving. THIS ISN’T JUST a remarkably handsome dental cabinet. It was designed to serve as the electrical hub for an entire ...

Gotham Delight

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The Greater New York Dental meeting lives up to its name every year. The 2023 forum, held at Manhattan’s Javits Center from November 29 to December 4, saw many friends of Incisal Edge hitting the hustings for seminars on mind-and-body wellness, personal branding, patient connections, women in dentistry and much more. ...

The 11th Annual Incisal Edge Design Competition 2024

By: McKenzie Kupchik

By McKenzie Kupchik Methodolody Our criteria for design excellence have remained essentially the same over the years: We canvass doctors, equipment specialists, architects and designers around the country for nominations in three categories: Best New Construction, Best Repurpose and Best Specialty. We send all ...

Blended Family

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By Jerry Markon The recent merger of the American Dental Association with the Forsyth Institute promises to give a jolt to dental R&D in the years ahead—both research for its own sake and the applied variety undertaken in pursuit of patents and profits. How did the tie-up come together, and what are its prospects ...

Real Intelligence

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We all use devices and technologies that do things better than humans—many of which date to the 1970s and ’80s. Is there any rational argument for soft-pedaling the adoption of dental AI? By Sarah Dean, RDH ON THE SURFACE, it sounds equal parts comforting and ominous: “AI won’t replace dentists. Dentists who ...

Safety Dance

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It’s sometimes hard to see the connection between workplace safety and financial success. But investing in it, aside from being the right thing to do, is simply smart business. By Jeff Ghannam, CSP EVERY ORGANIZATION is confronted with balancing overhead and revenue. Safety is often a low priority, even though many ...

Dental Innovators Hall of Fame

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Incisal Edge is proud to welcome two new inductees into this esteemed group for 2024. Dr. Dan Fischer Visionary and influential dentist-entrepreneur, educator and philanthropist Emeritus founder and CEO, Ultradent South Jordan, Utah EVERY YEAR, there’s a spirited discussion (or argument, depending on whom you ...

THE 11TH ANNUAL – Lucy Hobbs Awards

By: Megan Sobieski

THE FACE OF dentistry has changed considerably since we inaugurated the Lucy Hobbs Awards in 2013, cele­brating women’s contribu­tions in the name of the first American woman to earn a dental degree when she did so in 1866. We like to think these honors have played at least some role in boosting fe­male participation ...
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