title: Basic computing for dental practitioners: 6. Multimedia and communication.
abstract: This final article in the series on computing for dental practitioners examines multimedia and the Internet. Multimedia is one area where the greatest advances have been made in recent years; almost all PCs marketed today have multimedia capabilities and more and more software is being written with multimedia attributes.
authors.affiliation: Good Hope District Hospital, Sutton Coldfield.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weerakone
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003199:Computer Systems; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia; D011215:Practice Management, Dental; D014741:Video Recording