The Incedental is pleased to announce that it has gained page one status on Google for its Dental PACS Portal and for numerous published articles.  This is quite an achievement for a site that is essentially four months old. The Incedental is one of the fastest growing dental imaging, dental content, & IT communities on the web. Thousands of daily visitors & subscribers come to the Health Imaging Hub portal repeatedly for: feature articles, healthcare IT and radiology news covered by regions, E-learning opportunities, multimedia, downloadable content, IADR information and research reviews, case studies, and networking opportunities through forums and other communication offerings. And now, given this high ranking, the Incedental is finally open for sponsorship. To promote advertising, the Incedental is offering until November, significant reductions in costs for all placed adds.  For this promotion, we are introducing extremely reduced prices.  If you have any further queries regarding these special...

Social media is becoming a profoundly important means of communicating throughout the world.  Witness the political movements initiated by this medium in the last few months.  And the world of Dentistry is no exception.  There is an expanding list of social media sites focusing on a constellation of dental topics of interest.  On LinkedIn, for example, there are over 20 separate ‘groups’ with several thousand members from all over the world.  Dental professionals can also tweet, facebook, and use other media sites to communicate with each other and with patients.  The delivery of information is being transformed in the process. The demand for information is even transforming the way journals communicate.  If you go to PubMed (Pubmed.com) and query a topic – say bruxism - you will now often see the display of an abstract published ‘Epub ahead of print’.   In these cases the manuscript hasn’t even been finalized but the...

In the coming month this Editor will be attending the joint American Association and International Association of Dental Research meeting held in San Diego, California.  For those who have never attended an international Dental Research meeting, let me brief you on the activities. There will be featured speakers and symposia as well as hundreds of poster and power point abstract presentations.  Industry also provides sponsored symposia and there are enough product booths to satisfy any dental purchaser.  The full schedule of the events during the week can be found at:  http://www.iadr.org/files/public/2011IAGS_Schedule.pdf. The beauty of this meeting, in my opinion, is the presentation of abstracts.  Many will be based on years of research and thus will represent the latest scientific findings offered up in advance of journal publication.   It is heady stuff, so much so that I find when I attend I dream in color. Because many of you will not be...

The Dental Hub of Health Imaging Hub invites you to sign up for our weekly newsletter.  The newsletter will highlight the site’s feature articles that are likely to be of interest to you as a dental health care provider and also to allied personnel.   On the site itself, recent published studies will be reviewed comprehensively in a manner that should provide insight into potential clinical application. For example, under the Oral Medicine section the articles and literature reviews concern bruxism, oral cancer, CBCT assessment, bone loss associated with Zoledronic Acid, and oral sedation issues.  In the oral surgery section are reviews of articles such as ultrasound use in the ER for diagnosing dental abscess and recent procedures for treating cleft lip and palate.  Other articles of potential interest concern periodontic, endodontic, hygiene, and general dentistry issues.   Soon to be released will be weekly case studies involving radiology and oral disease. You...

Sometimes mistakes are made in reporting information taken from articles we review at Health Imaging Hub - Dental.  In this case, as was pointed out by the primary author of the article, data from the study on NIH support of dental schools was incorrectly detailed in the article.  As Dr Lipton indicated. In paragraph 3 - The first 13 schools listed in Table 1 (the ones you included in your third paragraph) received $592.056 million, not just the University of Pennsylvania, which was awarded only $27.772 million (see Table 1). This is stated in the results under "Total NIH Support" - "The 13 schools in Q4 (from the University of California San Francisco to the University of Pennsylvania) were the most highly funded, receiving $592.056 million, or 60.8% of total NIH dollars." In paragraph 4 - Most dental schools received support from both the NIDCR and other NIH Institutes/Centers.  Twelve (24%) schools obtained the majority (over 50%) of their NIH...