The Dental & The Incidental
My blogging journey began in 2009, when few dentists shared their thoughts online. What began as an occasional musing about dentistry has since become a passionate commitment. I’ve published at least one new blog post every month for over 15 years. That’s more than 200 posts and counting!…
Wisdom teeth are probably the most variable and problematic teeth to form in the human dentition. In fact, many times wisdom teeth don’t form at all and are the most common of teeth to be absent from mouth (followed by the upper lateral incisor). It’s when wisdom teeth…
A Dentist’s Second Opinion Saves Two Healthy Teeth So the other day I met a lovely new patient named “Mary.” She came to my office for a second opinion because her new dentist was planning to extract what she believed to be “up until a day or two…
Is there a decreased demand for dental care in the United States? There is little doubt that the ongoing economic crisis has had a tremendous impact on the financial health of so many. Spending on things once considered necessities is being curtailed because when faced with financial hardship,…
Finding a Good Dentist is All about Asking the Right Questions “An educated consumer is our best customer.” So said Sy Syms as he built a retail clothing empire by attracting a more “sophisticated” buyer by differentiating between cheap goods with low prices and a higher quality product…
In my humble opinion, Michael Douglas’s portrayal of Liberace in HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” was quite the performance well deserving of the publicity that Time Warner invested in the production. Buses plastered with Michael Douglas/Liberace’s visage ran up and down the avenues of New York for weeks prior…
Oh to appreciate the simple pleasures in life: that first sip of coffee in the morning, a walk in the park on a beautiful spring day, seeing a much-anticipated movie in a theatre with a large bag of freshly popped popcorn on your lap. But you better be…
