The Top 10 Articles of 2013

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Top 10 Articles of 2013

As we hit the mid-point of our look back on 2013, a number of trends are beginning to emerge. The most popular product categories reflect technologies that are hitting their mainstream stride, while the news items drawing the most interest show excitement about the cutting edge in digital dental technologies and materials.

Now as we turn our attention to the articles that earned the most attention in 2013, we see a mingling of those two trends. The most popular articles published in 2013 are a mix of blog posts examining industry trends and useful clinical advice.

However, the biggest presence on this list is made up of the Buyers Guide articles we launched this year to help you understand the intricacies of different product categories. Hopefully those guides continue to prove to be useful resources to help you find the right products for your practices. A number of new guides are planned for 2014 along with updates to our current guides to reflect new innovations hitting the market. If you think there’s a product category that deserves a Buyers Guide, let us know.

And now on to the list of the Top 10 Articles of 2013.*

Buyers Guide: Diode Lasers10. Buyers Guide: Diode Lasers – Kicking off the list of the 10 most popular articles of the year is the first of 4 Buyers Guides. Dental diode lasers have come a long way in recent years, and now they are affordable instruments that make it easier to provide minimally invasive soft tissue management. This guide was created to help explain what makes one laser different from another. They’re not all the same, but there’s likely at least one diode laser that could augment the way you practice.

Buyers Guide: Cone Beam 3D Imaging9. Buyers Guide: Cone Beam 3D Imaging – Cone beam 3D imaging is among the fastest growing product categories. No longer an expensive niche technology for implant specialists, dental cone beam is hitting its stride with lower doses, higher quality images and applications for orthodontics, endodontics and a range of other specialties. This guide can help you figure out what type of cone beam system will be the best fit for your practice and patients.

New CEREC Dental CAD/CAM Innovations Show the Digital Dental Future has Arrived8. New CEREC Dental CAD/CAM Innovations Show the Digital Dental Future has Arrived – In this blog post Clinical Director Dr. Jeff Rohde offered his impressions of what the move by Sirona to create different CEREC CAD/CAM configurations really meant. Dr. Rohde said this move to make the system more accessible to different types and sizes of dental practices showed that digital impressions and dental CAD/CAM technology are ready for the mainstream. Judging by the articles and products that provided most popular on Dentalcompare this year, it seems like you agree.

Using Dental Composite to Quickly Repair Class IV Fractures7. Using Dental Composite to Quickly Repair Class IV Fractures – In this article Dr. Amanda Seay provides a number of simple tips to help clinicians using dental composites to handle this common clinical situation. Her techniques are clear, her processes easy to understand, and the esthetics of her restorations simply gorgeous.

 

Dentistry in 2013 - Where the Industry is Going6. Dentistry in 2013 – Where the Industry is Going – Apparently everyone wants to know the future because this article from Dr. Rohde has continued to draw traffic throughout the year. In this piece Dr. Rohde looked at the trends he saw impacting the industry this year and made some predictions about what would happen with technologies and other factors impacting the way you practice. He’s already at work on his 2014 follow up which will revisit his 2013 forecast and look toward what’s to come next year.

A Simple Approach to Composite Diastema Cases5. A Simple Approach to Composite Diastema Cases – The second of Dr. Seay’s articles to show up on this list, here we have another great clinical protocol for a common situation. Her technique for closing diastemas using a dental composite system provides highly esthetic results without requiring an inordinate amount of time from either the clinician or the patient.

 

A General Dentist's Guide to Real World Endodontic Challenges4. A General Dentist’s Guide to Real World Endodontic Challenges – Dr. Richard Mounce has provided a number of articles focused on helping general practitioners improve their understanding of endodontic instruments and techniques. With this article he really did a great job of breaking down and explaining all the basics. It’s a wonderful introduction to endodontics and obviously found an audience excited about this type of information.

 

Buyers Guide: Digital Impression Systems3. Buyers Guide: Digital Impression Systems – This was a product category that saw some of the biggest growth throughout the past 15 months. Existing systems from Align Technologies and 3M ESPE have been overhauled, E4D and Sirona launched new scanners, and 3Shape, Carestream Dental and others started making themselves known in the market. There’s suddenly a lot of choice and buzz around this exciting category, and this Buyers Guide was created to help you find your way to a scanner that will fit the way you want to practice now and in the future.

Buyers Guide: Digital Intraoral X-Ray Sensors2. Buyers Guide: Digital Intraoral X-Ray Sensors – Coming in at number two is the most popular Buyers Guide thus far, our guide to digital x-ray sensors. With sensors being the most popular product category of the year, this makes a lot of sense. Practices that have not gone digital yet are starting to figure out which system is right for them. Hopefully this guide can help you sort through your options to find the sensor that works for you.

 

Updates to CDT Codes for 2013 Show the ADA is Focused on New Technologies and Materials1. Updates to CDT Codes for 2013 Show the ADA is Focused on New Technologies and Materials – Our top 10 news articles list featured a similar item about new CDT codes, so it makes sense that this blog post from Dr. Rohde proved to be so popular. Not only did our Clinical Director explain why he thinks the American Dental Association made the code changes they did, but he included a useful reference table for the updated codes for 2013. This was certainly an article you had a good reason to visit more than once this year.

*The 2013 Top 10 lists are based on Dentalcompare traffic measured during the 13 month period from October 2012 – November 2013.
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