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Anthony J Turner

Yes Dental Senders has had a positive impact on my practice. I have to combine what you do with my own internal marketing to get optimal results. I have had one reactivation from email via email. I think there is an education period for my patients. The reason I say that is its been a little over a ...

Anthony J Turner

I second Dr Liftig. The economic model that most software exist in currently is outdated. The open source model has a far greater future. And congratulations on selling your practice.

Anthony J Turner

Mine works and works well. I called Tony several months back and they were able to correct the issue. The recare/dormant patient reactivation along with letters and post cards have really gotten my patient load and production up. I remember reading somewhere that you have to touch a potential client...

Anthony J Turner

Excellent product. Set up takes time and fore thought to see when you want to have your reminders sent. Newsletter and campaigns help keep your practice in the patients view. I remember reading some where you have to touch a patient /client three time before you can BEGIN to get a response. Dental S...

Anthony J Turner

Does anyone have suggestions for VOIP softphone that will integrate with OD. My Panasonic KX-TG4500 though Vonage went out on me so I"m going to jump over to a VOIP gateway service and softphones. Any suggestions?

Anthony J Turner

Yes please send. doct@famprecare.com

Thx

Anthony J Turner

I am in the precess of doing the same but have not got my linux server up. Which instructions did you use for the linux server?

Tony

Anthony J Turner

I use it on a tablet that I run for new patients (two Viewsonic 1100's). You have to set up your questions for the questioner but it saves the step of scanning in info. The difficulty is the range of people who can handle data input on a pen computer. When the pen hovers above the screen a icon for ...

Anthony J Turner

You may already know this but you can put a password on your windows screen saver and set the time for what ever you want.

Tony

Anthony J Turner

Call me. I used to do it with an employee out of Salina. you have a few choices. VPN. Logmein, and Hamatchi. Each ahs pluses and minuses.

Anthony J Turner

What will replace questionnaire? We use it with a tablet with our new patients.

Anthony J Turner

Drop the film holders and lay your film directly on the glass. The transparency adapter is the removable white plate on the lid that exposes the overhead light. Remove it. When using the driver select positive film. You actually have to play around with the settings to get the best result. This shou...

Anthony J Turner

Scan at 300 DPI, gray scale. You have to have a transparency adapter so the light source comes through the x-ray and does not reflect off. Gives excellent results. Microtek gives best scanning results. Let me know if this helps

Tony

Anthony J Turner

Karen, it was no problem. When you get a chance I can show you Dental Senders. Give me a call and we can go over it on the phone.

Tony

Anthony J Turner

I have used Dental Senders since some time around the end of last yr the first of this yr. It is becoming an very important part of my practice. They provide a few marketing functions that are excellent. The one I rely on most are the survey's the and the Microsite. The survey's are sent out three d...

Anthony J Turner

I use a color lighter than the restoration that I will I will replace. This helps me to double check the area next time I do an exam. I then enter a procedure button of watch so I check it off as I am doing the exam.

Tony

Anthony J Turner

As I start using email more for inter office and patient communication I want to make sure I am HIPAA compliant. I have looked at some open source email clients and services. Cryptomail is a web based service I have looked at. Does anyone have any experience with this service or have any recommendat...

Anthony J Turner

Sorry, carefully read your original post. The image on the second monitor can be done if the image is opened in the chart itself in the tabs. Then it has its own window. Thanks, never tried that but it works.

Tony

Anthony J Turner

I use dual monitors on a couple of machines. Go into your settings for monitors for windows by right clicking on your desktop free space. Make sure you have both monitors highlighted. If not your graphics card is not recognizing both monitors even though it is outputting a signal to both. Then look ...

Anthony J Turner

Karen, this is Tony. Give me a call before you purchase any hardware. I could lead you is a different direction to save you some money.

Anthony J Turner

I have to agree with Dr Liftig. I use a very inexpensive (nitty gritty)presentation system ($89 Dent Pix) which is just a few Powerpoint presentations for graphical explinations to prime the pt on the basics of the treatment. The onus is on me as a practioner to "educate" the patient. I have found t...

Anthony J Turner

Check out this post. I have posted several with info on VR. Works well with practice.
http://70.90.133.65/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=839

Anthony J Turner

I put "Watch" as a restorative material like composite, just a lighter color but in the same color family as composite. Then I know in my dx notes and my charting its not a restoration but its a defective spot to watch. Works well with D-Carie. It tends to catch caries occlusal or interproximal very...

Anthony J Turner

Look in the online manual. It has the best explination.

Anthony J Turner

I do Autonotes wiith 2-3 responses for each area ie; WNL, pathology (then edit the pathology) or common abnomalities like high frena attachment listed as a choice. Gives a lot of consistency with your exam especially when training staff.

Anthony J Turner

That sounds good for the onlne version. Would you be able to intergrate that with the offline version somehow or would you have to use the online version for it to work.

Anthony J Turner

I find myself consulting with my colleagues more often lately. I am also tryng to spread the word about OD. It would be easier if I could email(secure) an entire patient file. Since I have been using OD for awhile they can see how advanced the program is and we can discuss topics on a patient(Images...

Anthony J Turner

Just starting resesrch. Will keep you posted.

Anthony J Turner

Dr Sparks
Have you looked at bridging to any open source medical records programs. I am doing research and would like to use one with OD and my website.

Anthony J Turner

One last thing. Go wireless and run WEP or the newer security. Saves money for wiring. I did and office 10 years ago and tried to foresee the furture for upgrading. WRONG! I had each room wired with a Cat5 hook up and placed some extras here and there. My data requirements have far out stripped my p...

Anthony J Turner

First good luck. WIth a lot of hard work and good decisions it will work. I'll come at your questiosn from a totally different direction to save you a lot of money. As you grow add the other niceties. 1) I would only reccomend Open Dental. I have been computerized since 1992 with clinical workstatio...

Anthony J Turner

I exclusivle use Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Preferred in Hygiene. Presently I am doing hygiene myself. It is very simple and intuitive. The only thing you need to do is train it on "plaque", "supperation", "bleeding", and 'calculus". Set your system for numbers and away you go. If your charting for...

Anthony J Turner

Expand more on default notes. Is that quick notes or is that something different

Anthony J Turner

JMA I mostly use it in my office for dictation. Clinically I have the open concept so I am not always comfortable dictating notes for privacy. Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro works very well. I use it with a Motorola bt250 headset for wireless convience. You have to tweak a bluetooth headset but its w...

Anthony J Turner

I have been using OD for 1 yr 3 motnhs now. Ths is my 4th dental software. For comparison (hope its okay) I have used Easy Dental (DOS very good software) from 92-02, TDocs 02-03, Altapoint 03-07. All were good but as my needs grew techinically they could not keep up. Support was an issue for all of...

Anthony J Turner

I am trying to use a Fujitsu tablet that has a 8.4 inch screen at 800x600 resolution that chops off the bottom and right hand portion of the screen instead of resizing. Is there a settiing Open-Dental or what screen settings need to be re-adjusted.

Anthony J Turner

In the free form comments section of the questionaire, will it allow handwrting (script not recognition) from a tablet pc? I don't know if this is a function of software or the operating system.

Anthony J Turner

Is that something you download or is it a part of mysql.

Anthony J Turner

Thanks, I hope to resolve this issue soon by settting up a Samba server.

Anthony J Turner

I have been backing up at night offsite with MozyPro. I run Win 2000 server so I sched the mysql to stop for 1 hr to run MozyPro.(Win 2000 doesn't have shadowbackup) I need to know if a workstation has OD open when mysql is shut down will I corrupt my database?

Anthony J Turner

Yes, using them in front office and floating for signature capture and access. I have two consultaton rooms that have become funtional with the tablet. Planning on using with new patients with health hx info through PT dental. OD immediatly useful.

Anthony J Turner

I use it in hygiene, Need to upgrade the CPU to make it work smoother. More than functional at this point. I use Dragon software. Tips to improve accuracy. Group numbers per tooth, don't say individually. Dictate in bleeding, suppartion , plaque, calculus seperately. When you want them to be identif...

Anthony J Turner

I have used it for about a year. I have had an excellent response I can remember when we first started using it we got some complaints. I decided then to forge ahead due to the positives. Only one time we had a complaint of multiple calls. PP supported us as we worked through the problem. The pts th...

Anthony J Turner

I run Win 2000 server and I log in through QuickVPN a Linksys product. You have to purchase a Linksys router that utilizes the software. Easy to set up and secure. I have an employee that lives 2 hours away that never comes to the office that I set up to use it and I use it when I work from home. On...

Anthony J Turner

Bluetooth would be more universal. You have to put appointments in a format of Outlook so they would transfer across various calender systems. Just my 2 cents

Anthony J Turner

Do a search on ebay for dental camera. Get the USB model, not the RCA. UsB goes directly to computer. RCA you have to get a video card or USB adapter ($49.00)to accept the images.

Anthony J Turner

I have purchased 3 of the low cost cameras. ( I think I paid around $39.00). You cannot take pictures directly into OD unless you upgrade the twain driver.(search the forum for the website of the twain driver.) You can take the software that comes with the camera, copy the picture and paste it into ...

Anthony J Turner

I have found Microtek scanners to give good contrast. You have to buy an MTMA from Mictotek direct or Amazon. I use i800 for pans and cephs and a i320 with a MTMA for pa's. i800 has a built in transparancy adapter. I have scanned x-rays since 1995. Hesitant to move to full digital because of cost.

Anthony J Turner

I am trying to work thrrough the bugs of wearing a Bluetooth headset and connecting in each room. I need to get the system set up for hygiene compeleted and the hygentist trained first. I currrently do my dictation in my office so there is no problem. The next step is to have it for each operatory.

Anthony J Turner

I have just finished setting up voice precognition for periodontal probing. It far excedded my expectation I am using Deagon Naturally speaking Preferred. Just to make thing interesting I set it up with a mobile Bluetooth headset. Jabra 250v. After getting the the headset installed (very easy) I set...

Anthony J Turner

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Anthony J Turner

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Anthony J Turner

We have been enetering pre determinations received as they come in but they drop off the aged ins list. Could someone give me the script for a sql query for pulling up the list?

Anthony J Turner

I just registered for a free eprescription service. I currently use BluefishRx but am replacing my Treo. The system is set up so it can interface with our practice management software to pull down our patients for the day and auto enter them. The system is web based so you can access it anywhere. If...

Anthony J Turner

Is \mysql\data a necessary file since the opentdentimages is backed up?

Anthony J Turner

I use MozyPro for backup also. I have a mapped drive P:\ for all workstations. I get the error on Mozy Pro c:\mysql\data not backed up because it is locked whenever I backup. I have shared my Opendent images folder on Win 2000 sever but I back up Doc and settings, Mysqldata and Opendentimages in Moz...

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