Information technology enters the dental office 20 years ago, and today, although it is very common for the majority of cases continues to be viewed with distrust and suspicion, some even with fear.
These attitudes are partly due to the machine and its operating system and some specific programs for dental use.
The dentist chooses the management that normally use in a trade fair after a short presentation given mostly to celebrate the beauty of the program or on the advice of a colleague.
Unfortunately, a detailed presentation should last for hours and usually also the links that we should not use that 40-50% of the functions of the program and knows no other programs.
The dental management are designed to necessarily make a profit for the company that normally are modular, more functions you want more you pay, and often, despite being full from an accounting standpoint, are not satisfactory from a a clinical or practical use
(developed by programmers and not by dentists).
In 1991 I decided to open my own dental practice and, aware that they have little space and not the person the more orderly world, I decided to dotarmi of a management plan for dental, dental expo contacted more companies and chose one, more for the goodness of the seller that I could understand during the presentation.
began two years of fighting with the machine (read as disputes with the DOS operating system at the time), misunderstandings with vendors of the program, any unavailability to listen to some requests that I considered essential and expenses subscription to receive upgrades that I did not understand (I discovered later that the program was just born and that they were hand built by hand!).
The computer can generate stress, very often I had an engineer that I adjust the machine's software (and which drew on his teeth for free) and two years later I still had an agenda paper and I invoices by hand ...... bought mountains of computer magazines.
In 1993 the need for an intra-oral camera made me closer to the Macintosh, which had the ability to link to specific programs without a camera, I had to give up the whole computer system previous year (and was a joy) and a management approach to new teeth, complete, stable but with a user interface (ie the logic of use) horrible.
The need to have something specific to the 'orthodontics and the meeting with the Macintosh took me to make a program that, over the years (over 16) has become the teeth now.
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