Dental Cleanings

Hello everyone, just a quick blog today to make sure all you parents get your children in for there cleanings before school starts. Professional cleanings are a must for heart health. If you leave the plaque and bacteria you heart will suffer. We want to start your children out right and for you adults lets get in to have your cleanings and periodontal maintenace done for your heart. This will reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. At the time of your prophylaxis we will do a general check up to make sure you have no broken fillings or cavities starting. Looking forward to seeing you all soon for your preventive maintenance.

Procrastination

Especially with the economy the way it is these days I wanted to leave you with a bit of advise. Don't procrastinate with your dental care. Keep yourself in maintenance phase which is getting your routine dental care done. Keep up on your check ups with x-rays. If we find a small cavity that is easy to fix. If you leave it go and you procrastinate, then it could cost you quite a bit more. You may end up like a lot of my procrastinators needing a root canal when in the beginning you only needed a small filling.
Why pay more. It will cost you double. So to save you money and time stay tuned in with your routine dental care.

Zirconia Crowns

I am trying to keep you all abreast to the latest in the dental field. With the cost of "Gold" going sky high the dental field was looking for a material as hard and serviceable as gold, but without the cost. They think they have found it with Zirconium crowns. Zirconium is all white and has shown great strength. You would eliminate the gold coping substructure and now have a coping out of Zirconium. You would still put your porcelain over the top , but you save all the cost of not needing the gold. It is suppose to be as strong, as good looking , and good to the tissue as well.
I am going to wait to have any of these put in my mouth to see how they stand up to masticatory forces. I personally think they will be OK up to the premolars, but do not know how they will hold up in the molar area. If they do not break this will be quite a break through. One brand name out on Market is called "Lava" crown.

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Obama Care and dentistry

I had to write this blog today because it is a big week for all of us. Our President is going to push a vote on his health care bill this week. I agree that we should come up with a better health care system , but this bill is not the answer. It is going to bankrupt this country. We do not have the money to pay for this bill and our President is using all the parliamentary gimmicks to try to get this passed. We need to take a step back and do this the right way including everyone in the process. We do not want to do this behind closed doors. We have enough entitlement programs we can not pay for and that we have to borrow for now. The government needs to step out of the way. You do not want the government to tell you what test you can have and what treatment you can have. Please review this bill and call and email your congressmen this week to let them know your thoughts.
I am so thankful that dentistry is not involved in this bill at the present time. People can still come to me and other dentists and get the quality of care they need. We will do your treatment the correct way. Insurance companies in dentistry really are dictated by the employer who buys the plan. They dictate the care they will cover. This is still a good system but there will be improvements down the road. We dentists are thankful at this time to not be involved in this. I know a lot of physicians that will retire if this passes. Please make up your own mind and call your congressmen this week.