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Practice Newsletter Archives

Informing Our Patients: Our Honest, Timely, and Personally Written Newsletters We truly value our patients. We always want to respect and be honest with our patients. For these reasons we write our own copy for the newletters. Our attempt is to keep them brief, timely, honest, and unique. We also want them to be more intimate and personal for our patients. We truly value our relationships with our patients and we still very much appreciate their referring their friends, family, and coworkers to us. We invite you to peruse our newsletter archive. Feel free to socially share them. Our hope

Our Unique Dental Practice

Dentistry As a Job or As a Retirement Activity?  I started my career as a dentist in 1986. It is a career I had considered since I was four years old. The idea of becoming a dentist was always there. Beginning in high school, I took my academics quite seriously and did all I could to “pad” my resume to assure my admittance into dental school. On an October afternoon in 1981, I received in the mail my admittances to all three Texas dental schools to which I had applied. That day for me was one of my happiest; it

Our Preventive Care Program

Our Honest, Conservative Preventive Care Based upon national averages about 30% of patients have periodontal disease.  This number may vary according to the source of the information.  However, in my practice with my patients, only 10% of patients have periodontal disease.  What is the source of this disparity? One reason for our having significantly fewer patients with periodontal disease may be due to the area in which we live.  This north Dallas area attracts a population with a higher level of education and with a higher socio-economic status.  As a result our patients may be better educated and may exercise

White Fillings / Bonding

Bonding: Closing Gaps in Front Many of us have gaps between the teeth.  This may be a concern in the front teeth particularly.  Many of us may recall when a magazine closed the midline gap in a photo of Madonna.  Madonna was publically upset about that; she wanted the gap to remain.  While some of us like Madonna may have no issue with gaps between the teeth, other people do have concerns about the gaps.  The gaps may simply be cosmetically displeasing to them or the gaps may gather food as they eat.  In any case some want these gaps