Digital radiography is gaining in popularity and many dentists are considering changing from a film-based system to this new technology. Dentists must clearly define their objectives for adopting digital radiography and be aware of the problems that may be encountered with this equipment, so that they can make an informed purchasing decision. This article provides an overview of digital radiogr...

BACKGROUND Computer technology has revolutionized the way the world does business, allowing us to work faster, smarter and more efficiently than ever before. Computers first made their way into the dental office in the late 1960s as an accounts receivable device. Today, we can digitize anything and recall it in the operatory with the patient. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS This article discusses new t...

Purpose To investigate whether the Polish Marshal Offices use instruments for social media marketing activities in the field of health promotion. Methodology 14 Polish Marshal Offices participated. The Computer-Assisted Web Interview and Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview were used along with a proprietary questionnaire. Standard statistical methods were employed. Findings The number of ...

To study the indoor climate, the psychosocial work environment and occupants' symptoms in offices a cross-sectional questionnaire survey was made in 11 naturally and 11 mechanically ventilated office buildings. Nine of the buildings had mainly cellular offices; five of the buildings had mainly open-plan offices, whereas eight buildings had a mixture of cellular, multi-person and open-plan offic...

The information revolution has a deep impact on office work. To create better environments for cognitive workers, we designed two observation tools recording office activity. The Subcam (subjective camera) is a miniature, wearable, wide angle video camera, clipped on a pair of glasses ; it records individual activity from a subjective point of view, wherever the user goes. The Offsat (office sa...

abstract the aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in iran. the study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...

methods this was across-sectional study, which audited 228 general practitioner offices randomly. the data from offices was collected based on researcher-made checklist, the validity of which was approved. firstly, descriptively analysis of data was done and then, the relationship between clinics characteristics and compliance with standards was assessed using analysis of variance (anova) and t...

Regular utilization of dental services helps to improve and maintain oral and general health, even in old age. However, utilization behavior for dental services changes with age: preventive utilization behavior is often replaced by a symptom-driven one. With age, a decrease in the utilization of dental services can be observed, whilst the frequency of contact with physicians increases. The pres...

In an interesting article Wieteke van Dijk and colleagues argue that societal developments and values influence the practice of medicine, and thus can result in both medicalisation and overdiagnosis. They provide a convincing argument that overdiagnosis emerges in a social context and that it has socially constructed implications. However, they fail to show that overdiagnosis per se is socially...