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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. Orthodontics: planning the perfect smile Creating the ideal orthodontic treatment plan (braces and Co.) AI models help orthodontists create the best treatment plans, and predict how the result will look like.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. In fact, because they are starting from scratch and missing information, they may end up contradicting something you were previously told!

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

As an endodontic specialist, patients have higher expectations when visiting my practice, so I feel the need to go above and beyond to provide quality treatment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">3D technology allows for very thorough treatment planning. <em>J Endod.</em>

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And how do we actually strike the right balance between obtaining essential diagnostic information and avoiding unnecessary imaging? The other thing though that’s important is a lot of times, you know, the CT gives us good information and it’s fast, but it may not be the best test. Subspecialists are key, right?

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

I diagnosed this case to be complex, requiring extensive bone regeneration, possibly with multiple grafts and informed this patient of the risks, timeline and complexity of his case. Only with a full understanding of the challenges associated with these complex cases can a viable solution be planned and executed to our satisfaction.</span><br

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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Cardiovascular Risk After Hysterectomy Highest for Young Women

Physician's Weekly

They acknowledged limitations as well, such as that most participants were educated and health-literate White women, potentially limiting the generalizability of the findings. Important Information for Decision-Making The findings may help clinicians counsel patients and plan for surgery, according to the researchers.