Category Archives: Editor’s Favorites

This Time It’s Personal – Your website, that is.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by The Dental Warrior

Make it personal!  Your website, that is.  I’ve long preached that dentists MUST be involved in the content creation for their website.  But, that DOESN’T mean you have to create your own website.  I get that objection a lot from … Continue reading →

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Defy the “back” button. Be yourself – online!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by The Dental Warrior

A dentist friend sent me a message on Facebook with a link to a Ted Talk video about social media.  (I’ve embedded the video at the end of this article.)  The video reminded me of what I’ve been preaching for … Continue reading →

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Get off yer butt, and get MOBILE!

Posted on January 14, 2012 by The Dental Warrior

Well, besides the fact that I DO need to get off my butt and start moving more (for my health), I’m not referring to exercise.  I’m talking about mobile websites. I suppose my impending suggestion (keep reading) to explore the … Continue reading →

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25 Years Later – Dental School STILL Sucks!

Posted on December 20, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

University of Tennessee College of Dentistry – A “Dream” Review It’s nearly 25 years after graduating from the gruesome experience of dental school, and I’m STILL having nightmares about it.  Literally.  Last night I dreamed that I had to retake … Continue reading →

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Stop Spamming My Blog Around

Posted on November 18, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

With a nod to Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty (Stop Dragging My Heart Around)… Everyone wants the link juice. One of the factors used by Google in ranking websites in the search engines results is inbound links.  Inbound links (aka … Continue reading →

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Implant Provisional – using the original tooth

Posted on November 9, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

Several months ago (April 2011), a long-time patient had tooth #8 blow up.   The patient is a 80 y.o. male.  It was a perio-endo lesion (with root resorption evident), and we decided extraction and replacement with an implant would be … Continue reading →

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Don’t “friend” your patients on Facebook!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

I went to a local dental meeting last night, and one of my dentist friends said to me, “Dude, you have some balls posting what you post on Facebook!”  My initial thought was that he was referring to my outspoken … Continue reading →

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Google-proof Your Website

Posted on October 16, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

Caffeine, Places, Farmer, +1, and Pandas* – Oh my! *The code names of some of the recent Google algorithm projects (This is going to be a long one.  But, I promise it will be worth it!  Strap in!) If you’ve … Continue reading →

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Vestigial Organs – by I.P. Freely

Posted on July 15, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

Strap in… going to be a long one.  If you’re sensitive to coarse language or graphic descriptions of medical procedures, you may want to stick to my dental articles.  This story will make you cringe, at least.  🙂  But, it … Continue reading →

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Dentistry Is Never “Simple.”

Posted on June 18, 2011 by The Dental Warrior

Moments ago I was reminded of this seemingly trivial matter in a thread on Dentaltown.com.  I’ve brought it up over the years here and there on Dentaltown.  So, I thought I would write up a quick post about it on … Continue reading →

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