Happy New Year to all of our patients, colleagues, friends, and followers!!! We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season - but even if you never made it to the "ball drop" at New York's Time Square, make sure that you don't drop the ball on your dental treatment this coming year, 2012. We [...]
On a very serious note, over the past few months we have seen a number of our patients who are being treated for very forms of cancer, including one patient who we diagnosed with oral cancer, localized in her tongue, and another with a large tumor in an area just behind the lower jaw. As [...]
Wendy and I just returned from the Academy of Comprehensive Esthetics (ACE) meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, looking at the latest trends, materials, and innovations in general and cosmetic dentistry. In terms of materials, changes in porcelain - both in color and hardness - have revolutionized veneers and crowns. The leader is the E-max porcelain, fabricated [...]
We like to get hugs, and recently we got a hug from a husband and wife, when we detected a tumor on the woman's tongue that she had not known about. She was a new patient of ClevelandSmiles, and had seen a number of physicians and dentists who were unable to diagnose her problem, [...]
We frequently get asked questions about our digital x-ray system. Here are some facts: It has 90% less radiation than conventional dental x-rays; a full set of radiographs is similar to 2-3 minutes in the sun. We always use a lead shield for our patients, one that has a thyroid collar as part of the [...]
While visiting my sister Joanne in Sarasota, Florida, recently, I came across a book her husband Marshall was reading entitled, "Washington - A Life," by Ron Chernow. Interestingly, a chapter was devoted to his struggle with his dentures and his relationship with his dentist, who played a major role in his life, as they became [...]
On Aprill 11th, we welcomed a new staff member, Ms. Suzanne Moss, who is an EFDA (i.e. Expanded Function Dental Auxillary). She comes to us with a wealth of training and experience. Like a Physician's Assistant in medicine, she will help Marilyn and me chairside. Suzanne will help us educate, place restorations/fillings, sealants, and assist. Suzanne [...]
We love our new Navigator laser. Wendy and I just spent time at the Ivolclar company in Buffalo getting advanced training on it and are even more thrilled with the opportunities with it; from gum contouring to help with painless canker sore removal. For more on how the Navigator laser, watch our appearance on WKYC's [...]
At a conference we attended recently in San Diego, put on by the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, we attended a presentation/course focused on gum disease in the Middle East that has application here in the United States. Due to poor home care, often because of lack of toothpaste and toothbrushes (from both financial and availability [...]
A number of people asked/commented on congressman Dennis Kucinich and his broken tooth (he apparently bit on an olive pit in a "wrap" and broke a tooth that was an "anchor" for a bridge). They wanted to know if things like that happened often and what could be done to avoid it. Our response has been that whether you [...]