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Are Your Digital Patient Archives Safe?Your digital patient records are invaluable. Archived files can help you understand and chart a patient’s long-term progress. They can help you determine if past interventions have been successful and move forward with a more comprehensive health plan for each individual patient --and if your patient relocates, it’s best for your business to have records ready for facilitating smooth transitions.
Are your digital patient files safe? If you are keeping them all on a single server, they could be incredibly vulnerable. What happens if that server goes down, if you experience fire or a natural disaster, or if some nasty hacker blocks the files and tries to blackmail you to get them back?
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Sleep Apnea is a Problem for Women Too!Sleep apnea is often consider a male issue, but while over 42 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a good portion of those troubled sleepers are women. Some studies show that one of out every four people suffering from sleep apnea is female. In fact, a 2008 study found that roughly 9% of middle-aged women suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (compared to 25% of middle-aged men).
Sleep apnea symptoms are often subtle in women, showing up as headaches and fatigue. This leads to a underdiagnosing of the condition in women. Those who suffer from sleep apnea are at an increased risk of being involved in a traffic accident, stroke, heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes, and even some forms of cancer, including…
Final Retention: Post-Treatment Crowding and Post-Treatment ExpectationsI think it would be safe to say that 75 – 80% of all patients experience some relapse or crowding long term, when they stop wearing their retainer(s). Patients always want to know why. So, for the purposes of this blog, here is a sampling of potential causes:
Insufficient airwayMouth breathingTongue position and habitsForces created by speechAberrant SwallowingFinger habitsChewing on pensStraight teeth but deficient arch width and/or lengthExtraction treatmentSeverity of the malocclusion prior to treatmentBruxingAge of patient at time of treatmentMesial driving forces of 2nd and 3rd molarsLack of vertical dimensionThe reality is…retention is forever. Educating your…
