Best of Class for 2011
We were just honored with the recognition from the Pride Institute for Best of Class for 2011!! When Dr Lou Shuman- president of the Pride Institute called to let me know I was so surprised! We got to be on the cover of Dental Product Reports and there will be…
What Does Our Name Mean?
So I get this a lot since the Dental R.A.T.™ is an odd name. When I first was inventing the foot mouse and thinking of a name we thought of a lot (Rugrat, dental mouse, perio mouse, perio pedal) but basically the foot pedal was a foot mouse with numbers.…
Welcome to the new Dental Rat Website
Over the next few weeks we will be adding new functionality and content to this faster and more secure website. So please take a look around and let us know what you like and what you don’t like. If you find anything doesn’t work or would like us to add…
Upcoming Dental Conferences
We are excited to be involved in a bunch of great dental conferences this summer! We start out in Florida next week in Patti DiGangi and Judy Bendit’s Hygiene Mastery program and then go to the Pacific NW meeting in Seattle then ADHA in LasVegas and then UOR back in Florida in August! These dental conventions are always…
Advances in Perio Charting
We just got back from the Greater New York dental conference and I was reminded that I hadn’t updated my blog. It was a very busy meeting, they said there were 59,000 dentists there, plus staff, wow!! It was so nice to see so many software companies that have finally…
Help with Periodontal Charting
One of the biggest complaints we hear from hygienists is that they can’t get anyone in to help perio chart. I’m amazed at every meeting we go to how many hygienists aren’t able to update their periodontal chart because none can come in and help, so it slips by. The…
We now have Stand Alone Perio Charting Software!!!
When we were at the Greater NY Dental meeting we ran into so many offices that didn’t have any perio charting software and wanted to use the Dental R.A.T.™, so we decided we wanted to offer stand alone perio charting software for those offices!! So we now have stand alone…