The Dental & The Incidental
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,…
While packing for the holiday weekend now upon us, my thoughts turned back to a recent family celebration in Washington D.C. I hadn’t visited our nation’s capital in quite some time and was struck by a sense of wonder and excitement akin to a child’s first over night…
For the past eight Memorial Day weekends, I have celebrated the start of summer with my friends on Fire Island. But not this year. Rather than strolling the sandy seashores of our beautiful beach, I found myself wandering the hallowed halls of higher learning at Cornell University where…
So I was informed by one of my professional journals that this past week was “Root Canal Awareness Week,” which explains why I had noticed scores of people running fearfully down the streets of Manhattan while screaming in pain. (I’m only joking; not the part about root canal…
I recall a time when it was considered impolite to ask a woman her age (perhaps it still is), but there does come a time in one’s life that one’s age becomes a source of great pride and accomplishment. Something that was once kept discreetly private is transformed…
