What's New in this 1/7/96 UpdateCopyright (c) 1994-1997Leslie C. Hassett
Dental Liaison Librarian, Loma Linda University
What's New in this 1/7/96 Update
Copyright (c) 1994-1997Leslie C. Hassett
Dental Liaison Librarian, Loma Linda University
Please send comments, corrections, or updates to Leslie Hassett lhassett@dwebb.llu.edu
Note: some list descriptions are from Lee Hancock's list of Internet/Bitnet Health Sciences Resources
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Description: Distributes information about chronic mercury poisoning from dental "silver" tooth fillings.
Contact: Owner: Siegfried Schmitt: jeo4@ibm3090.r2.uni-karlsruhe.de
Description: Buffalo Board of Oral Pathology. Discussion of ideas and topics regarding oral pathology service, research and teaching.
Contact: Owners: Alan Drinnan: ormpapua@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Rich Alberth: Rich_Alberth@sdm.buffalo.edu
Description: Calicified tissue discussion list serve. Focus is biomineralization in calcified tissues. List developed by Malcolm Snead, Oral Pathology, USC.
Contact: Owner: Malcolm Snead: MLSnead@zygote.hsc.usc.edu
Description: Craniofacial Biology Research List discourse centers on the growth and development of the human head. Topics of interest include queries, observations, and research reports on normal craniofacial morphology, ontogeny (growth and development) and teratology, as well as variation owing to gender, pathology, or phylogeny. The discussion should be of interest to clinical (plastic surgery, orthodontics, human genetics, epidemiology) and basic science (developmental biology, medical maging, anthropometrics) researchers.
Contact: Owner: David Dean: dean@lucifer.cwru.edu
Description: CCIS_SE is a discussion list on software engineering for the AADS Consortium for Clinical Information Systems. The list is intended as a forum for software developers at dental schools and companies who develop software for the dental market. The list is one mechanism employed by the Consortium to develop a pool of homogeneous, interoperable applications that can be seamlessly integrated into clinical information systems and computer based oral health records.
The list will carry traffic about the following topics: Existing and developing software applications for clinical information systems; specifications for existing or planned applications; software application interface; software architecture and development tools; software development processes; other technical aspects of implementing clinical information systems.
Although the primary focus of this list is on software engineering, other topics may include networking issues, infection control, workstation/operatory layout, ergonomic design, etc.
This list is targeted at institutional, corporate, and individual members of the AADS Consortium for Clinical Information Systems. List participants may include: system analysts, programmers, database administrators, documentation developers and trainers, quality assurance/testing personnel, other individuals interested or involved in development of dental software applications.
Contact: Owner: Robert M. Anderson: randerso@bite.db.uth.tmc.edu
Description: Oral Microbiology/Immunology Interest Group. An international forum for discussions of problems facing scientists and clinicians that deal with human and mammalian oral microbiota. Microbiology discussions include the prevalence of, and diseases caused by oral microbiota, physiology and genetics of virulence factors, host response to pathogens and virulence factors, autoimmune oral diseases, and the effects of aging on immune response. This forum will also serve as a conduit between members of professional societies that have Oral Microbiology and Immunology interest Sections including the IADR/AADR, ASM, FEMS, AAAS, and other groups. Announcement of coming events and public pre-meeting organizational communications are encouraged.
Contact: Owner: Dennis Mangan: mangand@de45.nidr.nih.gov
Description: NIDR, Periodontal Diseases Program Discussion. Informational conversation of NIDR grantees or potential grantees on the general topic of periodontal disease. Carries table of contents pages from the Journal of Periodontology.
Contact: Owners:
Dennis Mangan: mangand@de45.nidr.nih.gov
Description: Cosmetic and Aesthetic Dentistry Mailing List has been created to advance open communication within the international dental community. All phases of cosmetic and esthetic dentistry are discussed. The list is open to dental professionals and auxiliaries, suppliers, professional journal staff and laboratories.
Contact: Owner: John Cliff: johnc@mail.vcnet.com
Description: Moderated list for dental librarians, dental educators and health professionals interested in dental and oral health information issues.
Contact: Owner/Moderator: Frank Mason: fmason@hsc.usc.edu
Description: This is an "Infection Control Issues in Dentistry" mailing list and is from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. DENTALIC, the Infection Control in Dentistry List, has been created to advance open communication within the academic private, governmental, and commercial dental community involved in infection control issues in dentistry.
Contact: Owner: Sara Dirks: dirks@uthscsa.edu
Description: Dentistry related articles, reports and techniques. There is also a filelist available in conjunction with this discussion list. To obtain the filelist, send either a get dentalma filelist or ind dentalma to listproc@list.cren.net
Contact: Owner:Bryon Satterfield: bryons@blkbox.com
Description: Discussion list for the British Society for Computer Aided Learning in Dentistry. Also provides a web page.
Description: This list is intended to facilitate dialogue between members of the dental community on matters pertaining to continuing dental education, seminars, and other related topics. List is unmoderated.
Contact: Owner: Phil S. Ardoin: pardoin@bite.db.uth.tmc.edu
Description: A moderated forum devoted solely to issues pertaining to drug therapeutics in dentistry as a joint effort between Therapeutic Reference Systems, LTD and HRS Newsletter.
Contact: David Dodell: david@dental.stat.com
Description: "This list is for those involved in the dental lab industry, be it as a dental technician, or an industry supplier. You can use this mailing list to share experiences, exchange opinions, as well as get and provide information. While selling of individual lab equipment between labs is permissible, this list is not for mass sales mailings from any lab or equipment manufacturer."
Contact: Owner: David Dodell: postmaster@dental.stat.com
Description: Deals with all aspects of marketing a dental practice. Each week a short article will be provided dealing with the changes in dental demographics, marketing trends or research available.
Contact for list content: Scott McDonald: scottmc56@aol.com
Contact for listserv problems: David Dodell: david@dental.stat.com
Description: For discussion of ideas relating to dental public health. This is an open, unmoderated list that welcomes participation by dental public health practitioners, students, university faculty, government employees and others whose interests include dental public health.
Contact: Owner: Robert Weyant: rjw1+@pitt.edu
Description: A list intended for dentists and other health professionals who are interested in dentistry's role in the recognition and treatment of sleep-breathing disorders.
Contact: Owners: Laurence I. Barsh: libarsh@quietsleep.com
Description: Discussion group for predental students and students interested in the dental profession as a career.
Contact: Sarah Dirks: dirks@uthscsa.edu
Description: This list is intended to facilitate dialogue between members of the dental education community on matters pertaining to the development of dental-related World Wide Webb (WWW) servers. It may also be used to discuss dental-related infosystems in general (i.e., Gopher, USENET, FTP archives, etc.) List is unmoderated.
Contact: Owner: Phil S. Ardoin: pardoin@bite.db.uth.tmc.edu
Description: DENTST-L is an internet discussion list intended for predoctoral and postdoctoral dental students at schools around the world. The list originated with the idea to expose dental students to the internet during their studies. The list also encourages faculty from dental schools to join in order to develop an electronic dialogue between students and teachers. One of the goals of the list is to provide a first experience to dental students in participating with discussion lists. Initially, and periodically thereafter, postings on the list by the list management will focus on the basics of the internet. As such, the list will be used to deliver an electronic lecture in conjunction with dental informatics courses. As the list develops, another goal is to deliver dental content material in an electronic lecture format.
The second purpose of the list is to serve as a platform for free discussion. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: basic sciences in dentistry, clinical dentistry, technical aspects of dentistry (materials, techniques), transition to dental practice, board examinations, ethical issues in dentistry, international dentistry.
Contact: Owners: Lissa Mosley:
lissa@hal.dental.temple.edu
Titus Schleyer:
titus@hal.dental.temple.edu
Description: A professional forum for dentists, dental hygienists, dental technicians, dental assistants, dental students and health professionals to promote conversation regarding dentistry among those directly involved with patient care.
Contact: David Dodell: david@dental.stat.com
Description: Databases for dentistry. Discussion group for clinical, educational, and research issues in dental informatics and information technology in dentistry.
Contact: John Zimmerman: jlz4@columbia.edu
Description: Experimental pathology, with special emphasis on the oral cavity and head and neck. List developed by Malcolm Snead, Oral Pathology, USC.
Contact: Malcolm Snead: MLSnead@zygote.hsc.usc.edu
Description: Mailing list for Forensic Denstistry.
Description: French speaking dental mailing list. Post messages to Francodontie@cmu.unige.ch (don't subscribe or unsubscribe to this address.)
Contact: Owner: Philippe Conne: pconne@alphanet.ch
Description: To advance open communication within the world dental community on all phases of implant dentistry. The list is open to dental professionals, laboratories and suppliers.
Contact: John Cliff: john@mail.vcnet.com
Description: Discussion of managed care in dentistry.
Contact: David Dodell: david@dental.stat.com
Description: Mailing list for practicing dentists in Ontario, Canada. Also provided is a web site for list archives.
Contact: Owner: Dr. Gord Markic: gmarkic@msn.com
Description: Discussion group for topics pertaining to oral and maxillofacial radiology.
Contact: Owner: Stuart C. White:
stu@dentnet.dent.ucla.edu
owner-oradlist@grizzly.ucla.edu
Description: Electronic study club for Orthodontics. Intended for the free exchange of information and ideas among orthodontists in the U.S. and world-wide. Receives in advance of publication, tables of contents from the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics and Journal of Clinical Orthodontics and the Angle Orthodontist. The Journal of Clinical Orthodonticsalso transmits its editorials to this list.
Contact: Joseph H. Zernik: jzernik@hsc.usc.edu
Description: PEDNET (The Professional Ethics in Dentistry Network), in cooperation with Loma Linda University's Ethics Center and School of Dentistry, is sponsoring an online dental ethics forum. The purpose of the PEDNET_Forum is to facilitate sharing information about dental ethics. The Forum invites discussion of cases, information about seminars and workshops, and questions and comments about new developments in dental ethics. Those who have a professional interest in dental ethics are encouraged to subscribe. To post a message address it to: pednet_forum@mail.llu.edu.
Contact: Gerald Winslow: gwinslow@ccmail.llu.edu
Description: Moderated list for practitioners and researchers to share ideas and opinions for better periodontal diagnostics and therapy. Address of list archive: http://www.spallek.com/periodont/
Contact: Heiko Spallek: heiko@spallek.com
Description: Postdoctoral General Dentistry Listserv. A service of the Academic Computing Service of the Ohio State University and College of Dentistry. The List is designed as a communication tool for members of the Section of Postdoctoral General Dentistry of the American Association of Dental Schools and/or other dental educators interested in or involved with General Practice Residency Programs and Advanced Education in General Dentistry Programs. Membership is generally to be limited to the above identified individuals. The Listserv is not designed for the general public or the dental community at large at this time.
Contact: Dr. Daniel E. Jolly: jolly.4@osu.edu
Access: The Bridge can be dialed --no telnet yet-- at: 1(415)749-3311 with the usual telecommunications parameters of 8-N-1 at modem speeds of up to 28.8 bps. No special software is needed though the system looks best if your software supports ANSI colors and IBM graphics characters. The Bridge offers free software for PC users that supports these features (plus ZMODEM) and is pre-configured to dial the system. You can get uuencoded copy via e-mail by sending a message to: ftp@dental.com with the subject: get dialpgm.exe
QWK support allows long-distance callers to use an off-line mail reader to read forum postings and e-mail while minimizing phone charges. The Bridge offers several off-line readers for download in the software libraries.
Dial-Up: 1(415)749-3311 (8-N-1)
Contact:
sysop@dental.com
The Bridge
2155 Webster Street.
San Francisco, CA 94115
Voice: 1(415)749-3311
This BBS is currently free, although a $10 minimum contribution is suggested. A $25 contribution now, provides one year unlimited access at no further charge. Anticipated annual charge is $48.
Dial-up: 1(610)353-6292 (8,N,1)
Contact:
Dr. Ross Lambert
8 Denford Drive
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Dial-up: 1(313)761-9958 (8,N,1)
Contact:
James C. Hamilton, sysop: james.hamilton@um.cc.umich.edu
Dial-up: 1(714)551-8451 (8,N,1)
Telnet: odont.com
WWW Page: odont.com
Contact:
Xerxez M. Calilung, sysop: sysop@odont.com
Dial-Up: 1(816)358-6254 (8-N-1)
Contact:
gthompsn@sound.net
librarian@vh.radiology.uiowa.edu