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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. By slipping such a headset on their head, students and aspiring dental surgeons can be transported to the OR from their couch ; while patients can visualise a calming landscape while seated at the dreaded dentist’s chair to improve their experience.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. They had to have certain amount of urine drug tests in a year, and they had to wait in line. Katie: Yep.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. And we defined that as earlier detection and timely detection diagnosis to evaluation, care planning delivery, all the way to end of life. Malaz: Yeah. Eric: Okay.