Putting it all together: my journey in dentistry

I have grown and evolved as a clinical dentist primarily because I have been exposed to other dentists who have superior skills. It has been my choice to do this, and it has been very satisfying and professionally stimulating. Unfortunately, marketing hype and not understanding the total picture is influencing many of our younger, inexperienced dentists. The purpose of this lecture/paper was to help our younger colleagues realize some of the pitfalls in our profession and guide them in a direction where they may also see the benefits and rewards of our great profession.     

Putting it all together; dentistry and the Internet

This last chapter in the series looks at how the Internet, 'warts and all', can be used in the practice setting. The web in particular has changed dramatically in the last three or four years, and the phrase 'Web 2.0' was coined to reflect this perceived change in the way that the web was being used. Web-based communities, social networking, the transition of websites from mere information pages to real software applications and the expansion in broadband access have all been important factors in this 'improved' WWW. Has dentistry been able to keep up with this pace of change and are dentists willing to embrace what the Internet has to offer?