Friday Five Roundup: From dental spa to Google's increased control over images you find on the internet

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The Dental Geek

Dental Visit or Dental Experience—There’s a Huge Difference

Dental professionals don’t just care about replacing crowns or the number of dental caries they fill in one day. Above everything else, they care about their patients. That’s why dentists and hygienists from every corner of the world are looking at treatment from a “What can I do to make my patients more comfortable?” perspective.

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Search Engine Journal

Google Images Update – Google Lens is Live

Google announced an update to Google Images that may have a significant impact to publishers who sell online. The Google Lens feature is rolling out to Google Images on mobile devices. This feature is live right now in the United States and rolling out to other countries and languages soon.

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Friday Five Roundup: From probiotic toothpaste to why social media is a BUMMER

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abc7

New Cosmetic Trend: Probiotic toothpaste

Looking for the newest trend in cosmetics? Probiotic toothpaste is next in line.

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Wired

This Startup Wants You to Control Your Own Data Again

A startup called Helm aims to make it easy for you instead to own your data, and manage it locally on a personal server at home.

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Digital Marketing Terms Decoded - October Edition

By: Joyce Ho

Welcome back to Digital Marketing Terms Decoded! We are here on our October series, helping you build a stronger digital marketing presence. Before diving into this edition, make sure to check out our previously explained terms here. Happy Marketing!

October's Digital Marketing Terms Decoded is here with new additions to your marketing glossary. From search ads to display ads, rich snippets, and retargeting, we're breaking it all down.

Friday Five Roundup: A new era of dentistry to Google+ shut down

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Dental Economics

Ready, Set, Change (Your Approach to Business Education)

Everyone knows that change is inevitable. For many years, dentistry was a relatively slow-changing profession in regard to the business of operating a practice. Following the supply-and-demand economics model allowed practices to be successful by simply having the right number of patients and new patients. Today, dentistry is much more like other industries—fast paced, rapidly changing, and always seeking new ways to grow production and profits. Unfortunately, what hasn’t changed is the lack of business education at dental schools, which leaves most dentists on their own when it comes to truly understanding how to run a practice.

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The Guardian

Google to Shut Down Google+ After Failing to Disclose User Data Breach

This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers to access the data not just of users who had granted permission, but of their friends.

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Friday Five Roundup: From expanding your dental practice to data mining

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Dental Economics

Reaching the Right Patients: Uninsured small-business owners and employees

A key player in every productive practice — patients between the ages of 30 and 65 who do not have dental insurance. Most dentists know that this group exists, but they may not understand who they are and how their dental practice can attract them.

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CBC

The Government is Mining Your Social Media Data, But With Good Reason

The federal government wants a pilot project for surveillance of suicide-related behaviours on social media.

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