Last week this blog finally went to a WordPress platform and networking links are now present on the postings to various social media sites. It’s taken a long time to get here and hopefully www.facebook.com/oralhealth will be arriving in the twinkle of a Christmas light, Chanukah candle and an eye. The method in the madness is evident in this posting. With holiday time imminent, it made sense to close the year with a manic flurry of entries. Folks are going to be home for the holidays in large part, save those that fly south and stand in endless lines for food and amusement, and should be playing with new computers and tablets and at some point in time, their minds may turn to dental issues if only for a nano-second.
Oral Health actually “got” social media, just didn’t recognize it as such or name it appropriately. “Where do you read Oral Health?” is social media regardless of how it’s defined or marketed. The point of all this was a posting on PIPS – photon initiated photoacoustic streaming, the first serious evolutionary iteration in endodontics in decades to be sold shortly in Canada (albeit you won’t know if from the non-existent CDA discussion forum) by National Dental Inc. of Barrie, Ontario.
It’s egregious specious calumny to suggest that nickel-titanium instrumentation and “clean and shape” revolutionized endodontics. NiTi improved endodontics once the learning curve and skill set were determined and achieved; however, anyone paying close attention has noted that while there was a great deal of “bunga, bunga” about endo and laser disinfection back when, the redesign of tips for endodontic usage by the major players is indeed creating something that will alter the treatment outcome landscape radically. The point of posting any entry on innovation is to see what happens when you shake the tree and determine who and what falls out of it. The following images were provided by someone from an Internet forum after reading the PIPS entry under Endodontics/irrigation in the catergory section. It is the essence of blended learning…..text, image, video and animation melded into a mentoring process.
Check out the images, realize that endodontics as a foundational component of all things rehabilitative was understood eons ago; took this long for technology to start hitting the necessary marks. PIPS may lead to a reduction in the incidence of excessive tooth structure removal and as a result, reduce the number of fractures related to oversized posts and the resultant stress vectors. Would that the other disciplines shared this forum/blog to bring state of the art/current trend/bleeding technology to anyone and everyone in Canada first and eventually to a global audience. Now if only we had an event widget!!! Double click on each one and …….enjoy!
