We prepared a brief video letting you know what we are doing to get our office back to one of the safest, cleanest environments you can visit. Your best interest and that of our staff and our next guest in the office are our obsession! We have been and still will see our patients in [...]
If there was one demographic that we are uniquely designed to cater to better than other office I would easily say it is phobic patients. We usually just have one patient in the office at a time. There is a huge advantage to this. Everything in the office is focused on having that patient as [...]
I remembered when I was at Temple Dental School, about 30 years ago, I was telling one of my favorite instructors. Andrea Cohen that I was working on weekends and on breaks in our family’s moving business. She knew my father was a dentist and asked me why I didn’t go into orthodontics. It took [...]
We all know that fear is often the largest obstacle keeping us from achieving our goals. We see this with patients all of the time. Usually it will play out in one of two main ways in here. Quite often the fear is that of “How am I going to pay for this”? Frequently patients [...]
Understand the dental practices Sure we like patients that have their teeth and want to keep them forever. That’s the dentist’s bread and butter. We focus on prevention using fluoride and sealants in children. We spend the time, often showing older adults the right way to brush for the first time in their lives. It’s [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ktSAvAO0A&feature=youtu.be Choosing the Right Toothbrush: Pots vs. Pants One of the most common questions we are asked at Dillon Family Dentistry is: “What kind of toothbrush should I use?” POTS (Plain Ole Toothbrushes) and PANTs (Pretty Amazing New Toothbrushes) are having an epic battle these days. Let's look at the PANTs first. Recently a [...]
I was watching a show where an athlete training for an MMA fight had to work very hard to make his weigh-in. In the day or two following he worked very hard at re-hydrating himself, to the extent that he ended up in the hospital from drinking too much water. YES, drinking too much water [...]
So, this is a tough one. I’ve never really been the dentist that drills his patients on the need to floss. There was a lot of discussion about flossing this summer in the wake of the article that cited several studies over recent years that reported a lack of data proving that flossing is effective [...]
This is a great time for seniors! High school students have been getting ready for graduation, prom, and looking forward to all their upcoming freedom. College seniors are reminiscing about their years of hard work and getting ready to graduate and possibly join the “real world”, some of them might even get a job other [...]
It seems that almost all meds these days have a side-effect of xerostomia, or dry mouth. On top of meds radiation treatment for cancer can also cause dry mouth. You really need your saliva to keep your teeth healthy. You see your teeth are actually in a dynamic state of breaking down and being rebuilt. [...]
