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podcasts feature Dental Podcasts: What They Are and How They Work by Richard Low, Dentaltown Student Program Director I awoke to my wife nudging me and saying, "Are you going to get your phone? Don't you have an exam?" It had only been a few hours since I stopped studying for my 7 a.m. basic sciences exam and I had to drive back to school. As I got in my rusted '95 Honda Civic for my 30-minute commute, I realized that driving to and from school had cost me an hour of sleep or studying that I couldn't afford to waste. "Maybe we should have rented somewhere closer to campus," I thought to myself. "How do people survive working with an hour-plus commute each way?" At that point in my ﬁrst year of dental school we were still trudging through biochemistry, histology, neuroanatomy and all the other basic science courses that didn't feel particularly relevant. I just wanted to get to the dentistry. I wanted to know what it would be like to place implants, own a practice and treatment plan complex cases. I was ﬁlling my commute with audiobooks to pass the time, but I wished I could use that dead time to become a better dentist. What Is a Podcast? Fast-forward four years later and I can't keep up with the phenomenal amount of dental audio put out via podcasts. A podcast is like a free radio show distributed online. You can download podcasts to your computer, tablet or phone and listen to them wherever and whenever you want. Podcasts are updated via feeds (often weekly), so new content is automatically delivered to you. It's a lot like a blog, but in audio format. The host of these podcasts will often interview guests, but sometimes they record an episode alone. They range from 10 minutes to more than an hour in length. Podcasts started becoming popular in the early 2000s with the advent of the iPod, but were inconvenient because users had to download the audio to their computer before loading it to their MP3 player. With the advent of smartphones and tablets, you can download or stream the content straight to your device from an app, making it much simpler. In the past year iTunes hit its 1 billionth podcast download and Saturday Night Live made fun of a popular podcast in a recent skit. Podcasts are ofﬁcially "in" as a medium. A podcast is like a free radio show distributed online. Why Should I Listen to a Dental Podcast? There are few things that simultaneously improve us and allow us to regain lost time. Podcasts allow you to use the time in your life that otherwise slips by. If you ever commute to work, exercise, do housework, eat a meal by yourself or have to wait in line at the store, then you might beneﬁt from listening to a podcast. Some dentaltown.com \\ MARCH 2015 69 http://www.dentaltown.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Dentaltown March 2015

On Dentaltown.com
Howard Speaks: 20 Feet from Stardom: Delegate like Jagger
Professional Courtesy: Married to My Profession
Continuing Education Update
Help Me Treatment Plan This Case
CBCT Technology: What Will the Future Bring?
New Luting Composite: Variolink Esthetic
Cone Beam 3D—Is It Really for Me?
Four Digital Marketing Mistakes that Impede Practice Growth
New Products
Poll
From Scaling to Therapy: A Day in the Life of a Dental Hygienist
The Value of a Dental Practice: Why Tracking “Attributable” Expenses Matters
I am Seeing a Lot of HPV Lesions in the Mouth Lately; What is the Protocol, Remove Them or What?
Dental Podcasts: What They Are and How They Work
Service Profi le: Garfi eld Refi ning
CE: Posterior Maxilla Implant Rehabilitation: A Challenging Task
Product Profile: Dentsply Caulking
Women in Dentistry: Intro
Women in Dentistry: Work/Life Balance: Flexibility and Creative Scheduling Go a Long Way
Women in Dentistry: The Lucy Hobbs Project
Women in Dentistry: Female Dentists in Conservative Muslim Nations Face Challenges and Threats
Women in Dentistry: The American Association of Women Dentists: Representing Women from Products to Leadership
Ad Index
Women in Dentistry: Q&A
Women in Dentistry: The Sky's the Limit: Hygienist Turned Entrepreneur Shows What's Possible
Product Profi le: SmartBox
Dentally Incorrect

Dentaltown March 2015