A Heart Attack, Backward — Part 4 of 4: Where does periodontal disease enter?
Where periodontal disease enters the story: what the associations can show, what the treatment trials have established, and what a hygienist can honestly say in the chair.
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Socrates had a problem with writing In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates tells a story about the Egyptian god Theuth, the inventor of writing. Theuth takes his invention to King Thamus and presents it as a recipe for memory and wisdom. Thamus is not impressed. He tells Theuth that writing
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How dental AI is built and what makes it worth trusting
From training labels to clinical validation, with a close look at Retrace's research and the evidence still needed.
A Heart Attack, Backward — Part 3: Pressure, flow, and mouth chemistry
Follow one route from the artery wall to the tongue, and see what the experiments can actually tell us.
Start here: the mouth belongs in medicine.
Three letters to begin with, and a way to join the work.
A Heart Attack, Backward — Part 2 of 4: What was in the artery before the clot?
A Heart Attack, Backward, Part 2: the cells, cholesterol and failed cleanup inside an arterial plaque.
What does the AI actually cost?
The monthly fee is the first number. Here is how to get to the number your practice will actually pay.
Bench Test #4: Overjet Voice
A microphone may give the team time back. Count the corrections, check the data terms, and measure where those minutes go.
A Heart Attack, Backward — Part 1 of 4: Start with the clot.
Before we connect the mouth to the heart, follow what happens inside the artery.
Bench Test #3: VideaHealth (VideaAI)
An embedded AI can be easier to adopt. The evidence, economics, and data rights still need their own examination.
Bench Test #2: Overjet AI Assist
Same five lines, the other incumbent — and the vendor whose subscription helps fund the reader on the payer's side of your claim.
1840
Hygienists first.
Letter seven.
The Practice Ledger
Bench Test #1: Pearl Second Opinion
The chair-hour is the unit of production. This is where we start pricing the tools that promise to defend it.
The Practice Ledger
Your Radiograph Gets Read a Third Time
The acquirer's AI reads your radiograph archive the way a banker reads your P&L. What it prices is the perio you haven't diagnosed.
1840
Everything I need is already in the room.
Letter six. The skills we have.
1840
The wall talks back.
Letter five. Connections.
1840
Three windows.
Letter four. Time, space, scale.
1840
The window is not a date.
Letter three. Kairos.
1840
Two men, a room, a verdict.
Letter two. Undo 1840.
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I don't know.
Letter one. The unknown.
The Practice Ledger
Your Radiograph Gets Read Twice Now
The payer bought the same machine you did — and pointed it at a different target.
The Practice Ledger
The Dental AI Product Guide
No sponsors. Practice-ready on day one, 30 minutes of training, no engineers required (that's the dream)
The Practice Ledger
The chair-hour is the unit of production
Overhead percentages hide the physics: a practice is a fixed inventory of expiring time. Plus: the Tiny DSO Diaries open the books, and the Bench Test scorecard.