Every dental AI demo skips the least glamorous question: how does the X-ray actually get from your sensor to the AI, and the result back onto your screen? The answer is one of four plumbing methods - TWAIN, DICOM, cloud API, or a PMS bridge...
The AI story in dentistry started at the operatory - reading radiographs and writing notes. The quieter, faster-moving story is happening at the front desk and in the back office, where AI now parses remittances, works denials, and turns the practice-management database into a live...
The moment you point an AI tool at a radiograph or a consult recording, you have created a new pathway for protected health information to leave your practice - and the accountability does not leave with it. Here is how HIPAA and Ontario's PHIPA actually...
AI scribes promise to get your clinicians out of the chart and back to the patient. But 'AI scribe' covers three different products - structured voice charting, dental-native platforms, and horizontal ambient note-takers borrowed from medicine. Here is how Bola AI, Heidi, and Denti.AI actually...
Ontario dentists must keep patient records for at least ten years, then destroy them securely. That single sentence hides a decade of IT decisions about storage, backups, format survival, and disposal that most practices never plan for....
AI receptionists now answer dental phones in under a second and book appointments straight into the PMS. For a practice, the questions are not about the voice - they are about how it plugs into your scheduling stack, where call recordings go, and whether the...
A wave of newly FDA-cleared dental imaging - the first dental-dedicated MRI, new 3D and AI-assisted modalities - is arriving in practices. The clinical excitement is real, but there is a quieter story your IT has to answer: these images are far bigger, and they...
Overjet is the most heavily FDA-cleared dental AI on the market, and it now sits on both the clinical and the insurance side of a claim. For a practice, the real questions are not about accuracy - they are about how it connects to your...
Multi-factor authentication is supposed to be the wall that keeps intruders out of your Microsoft 365 and practice-management accounts. But a fast-growing class of malware, infostealers, does not try to climb the wall. It waits for your staff member to unlock the door, then quietly...
Federal investigators found a hidden backdoor in a widely used patient monitor that silently shipped patient data to a hard-coded overseas address - and a US state has since ordered agencies to inventory Chinese-made networked medical devices. Dental practices run connected devices too: intraoral sensors,...
A critical Microsoft SharePoint flaw, CVE-2026-55040, lets a remote attacker forge a valid login token and impersonate any user - up to a full site administrator - without ever knowing a password. Microsoft patched it in July, but once Rapid7 published proof-of-concept code this week,...
Every dental practice runs on messages: a texted appointment reminder, an emailed treatment plan, a quick photo of an X-ray sent to a specialist. But standard SMS and ordinary email were never built to carry health information, and a single misdirected message can become a...
A new attack called 'Plug and Pwn,' disclosed at DEF CON 34, abuses the Windows Plug and Play feature every computer relies on. By emulating a USB device, an attacker can make Windows automatically install a signed-but-vulnerable vendor driver as SYSTEM - the highest level...
Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed an actively exploited Windows zero-day (CVE-2026-68820) that the North Korean Lazarus group used to turn a fake job offer into total, stealthy control of a Windows machine. The attack chain - social engineering, then a kernel privilege-escalation flaw, then...
CISA has confirmed that ransomware crews are actively exploiting two SonicWall SMA1000 remote-access flaws - one of them a maximum-severity, no-password-required bug - to seize the appliance and walk straight into the network behind it. For any dental practice that reaches its systems through a...
