title: The infinity of opportunity: breaking barriers to technological change in dentistry.
abstract: This essay characterizes the nature of the technologically current dental office and identifies challenges to be overcome in accelerating the introduction of technology. These challenges include dentists' preference for serial introduction of incremental change, lack of a network for communicating information on technology, the dental market of small and independent offices that make it difficult for manufacturers to finance innovative products, and the need to integrate technological change in dental education.
authors.affiliation: Dental Practice Systems Dental School, University of Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Belenky
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Rucker
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003748:Dental Equipment; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000592:standards; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists'; D012922:Social Change; D012953:Societies, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013674:Technology, Dental / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States