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[Toby]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

One wouldn't think a dentist would need that much hard drive space. Did he ditch his x-ray machine and go for one of those new computer imaging, umm, thingies (yeah I had to bust out the technical term, "thingie" in this description).

There are three dentists in the practice. They take photos with a digital camera that are then uploaded and linked to the patients chart. It's far easier to put up a full screen digital photo to show the patient rather than using mirrors and trying to talk to the patient about treatment with their head back and mouth wide open.

They're still using old-fashioned film x-rays, at least for now. Plans are in the works for converting to digital x-rays, but that system will have it's own storage solution.