Open Dental Forum

I got the Ransom Ware deal on my computer, the computer was locked up with the screen saying my data was now encrypted, etc. I immediately pulled the plug, disconnected external drives, ethernet cable, printers, everything. After re-boot, I ran a malware and virus scan which found 5 criticals which ...

thanks for this info on Dental Rat,..I just saw it at the Madow Bro's seminar in Vegas,..I was almost sold, thinking about the $ savings in not having an assistant writing down the probe depth numbers. The lady who demo'd it obviously had her 10,000hrs of practice, and made the inputs look easy. How...

I see this topic kind of petered out a couple years ago in 2011, so I am wondering if there's any new best value out there on new digital xray sensors. I am disappointed to see that prices haven't gone down a bit in the last 5 years on EVA sensors,..still 6000 bucks on net32. Of my two EVA sensors I...

Thanks everyone for the help. After reading Hersheydmd's post, I called Global Surgical: the scope they recommend (6 step) for general dentistry is 18K, then about 2K more for adapters for video-out to monitor and camera. It can be set up to swing between two adjacent operatories, but doesn't sound ...

Hello, my wife has been a dentist for almost 5yrs, and her lower back is killing her,..worse by the month. I can tell her active seating arrangement is the main culprit,..the angles are all wrong when she is looking into the pt's mouth. She's using a stool, and doesn't like loops (because they slip ...

I got two EVA sensors (one on Ebay, the other from Net32); they both came with ProImage disks and work fine with OpenDental bridge and WinXP. So far they are trustworthy sensors, in use every day for 4 years without a hitch. They've been dropped and crunched. When I got these, they were the most ine...

Hello, I am managing my wife's practice. Thanks much for the help a couple years ago when I was setting up Open Dental. Now I need help fast! My wife is really "going" for this TENS/LVI/Neuromuscular stuff. I am reading the literature that she's bringing home,...and the term "elaborate hoax" comes t...

I have 4 questions and would appreciate input: Preface: We are opening our first dental practice this week. Exciting/Scary, since my wife graduated less than a yr ago from dental school. We are on a shoestring budget but are determined to have digital xray and intraoral cam from day one, even if it ...