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I wrote this 20 years ago…and it still holds true, Happy Holidays May I Please Have Another Cookie? As I walked into the room, the nurse was applying medication to a hand wound my grandmother had received from a fall a week earlier. My eight-year-old son, Tim, and I had...

As I sat in the lobby of the Atrium hotel in Split, Croatia waiting for my airport transfer, my mind continued to review the cultural experience of the past week traveling by bike across two islands in the Adriatic Sea. I was with a relatively physically fit and well-educated...

Have you ever noticed that the people you know well never really change. After observing patients, friends, family and myself over a span close to 60 years, I have concluded we as individuals never really change over time. Our life situations are continuously in flux and we...

Dental needs can easily be divided into two categories. There is disease that is caused by bacteria and disease caused by function. I am amazed at how many patients seem to point to us the clinician as the causative factor when we tell them they have something wrong. But in...

Over 30 years ago I made a commitment to help my patients retain their teeth for a lifetime. This includes a comprehensive approach to care and puts the old “patch and plug” philosophy of dentistry in the past. As I pondered this approach to treating my patients, I...

I’m not sure if you noticed, but it seems like everything around us is very busy. Traffic, planes, stores, work, the internet, our weekends, the neighbors, old friends, restaurants, etc…. I like to phase that it appears that everything is just a bit too...

Dental needs can easily be divided into two categories. There is disease that is caused by bacteria and function. I am amazed at how many patients seem to point to us the clinician as the causative factor when we tell them they have something wrong. But in reality, most...

It’s early in the morning and the first sip of coffee full of that fresh aroma just went down with a sigh, a sagging of the shoulders and a feeling of here we go for another day. You stare through the foggy mirror and observe two swollen eyes staring back at you. Your mind starts...

If you look up the word acceptance in the dictionary it is actually a very broad term. It could simple be used in terms of “acceptance of a gift”, “acceptance of a person”, or the one I liked was the “acceptance of truth.” Recently, I was listening to a person speak about love...

Yesterday I watched with intent and concern a local news channel’s investigative report about bad dentistry in Maine. To say the least, the piece was marred with incomplete information and accusations about poor dentistry in Maine. Yes, even I extracted two teeth on my last...