Yesterday marked 19 years since I opened my dental practice and 19 years that the four women with me in this photo have worked together. It is such a blessing to work with these strong, patient, kind, hard-working individuals. We are not just work partners, we are best friends who have gone through all sorts of life trials and tribulations. Thank you to them for being so committed to our practice. Thank you to you, our patients, for allowing us to care for you all these years. We are working on ways to celebrate next year’s milestone of the big 20! Continue reading “19 Years and Still Counting!”

….is the way we communicate with you! We annually complete our OSHA/HIPPA training and we are being encouraged to only communicate with patients through encrypted sources. This completely removes any personal communication that we have prided ourselves in providing to our patients.

We are here for you almost 24/7. Patients can email, call, text me anytime and I do my best to answer quickly during waking hours. This is often from my phone or my laptop and this source of communication is not encrypted (I honestly don’t even understand how all this works). But, to get ‘around’ this, I have been advised to have patients sign a consent that will permit me to continue to be able to answer your dental questions, concerns outside of my normal office hours. Continue reading “The Only Thing That Is Not Sterile”

…DON’T!!!

As a healthcare professional, I take for granted knowing how to properly wear and use PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). In my previous about how to wear a face mask, I discussed how it must cover your nose and mouth completely, to be effective.

Wearing gloves in public should never be done! Once you put on a pair of latex gloves, everything you touch (your purse, your wallet, your car door, your groceries, your hair, etc.) becomes CONTAMINATED!! Wearing gloves to the grocery store does NOTHING to protect you from the Coronavirus. The Coronavirus is an airborne pathogen, it cannot gain entry into your body through skin contact. Continue reading “How to Properly Wear Gloves Out in Public”

He may be cute, but it is like pulling teeth to get him to focus on his schoolwork. He sweetly came to me last week, in an effort to delay his school assignments, and asked me to pull his loose tooth. I knew he was desperate to avoid reading and writing if he was asking me to extract his tooth. Continue reading “Like Pulling Teeth”