You might say laughter, but we actually crack that one in here at Dillon Family Dentistry. Sadly, what is all-too-often the case is that apparently other dentists aren’t always offering all of their patients all of the options for their unique situation and all of the possible treatment options. We take great solace and sanctuary [...]
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 [...]
This is a great question that comes around all of the time still, even though I haven’t placed a mercury filling in almost 25 years. It’s a tricky question that needs to be looked at from a few different perspectives. We can start by looking at the differences between the options of dental amalgam and [...]
First and foremost let me put it out there that the practice of dentistry is a painless venture 99% of the time in our office these days. It’s so much easier being a painless dentist nowadays, I feel like a spoiled brat dentist compared to what my father had at his disposal when he started [...]
Italian researchers have evidence of a 14,000 year old teeth that had been worked on by the first known 'dentist'. Here's the article: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/14000-year-old-tooth-shows-oldest-form-dentistry-and-it-s-pretty-grim Dental Amalgam, "Silver Fillings", have been used for less than 200 years. Not so long in respect to the full history of dentistry. If you look at all of the advances [...]
At the dental office of Dr. David Dillon, we genuinely worry about your dental health and we worry about ours too! We would like to share a few helpful things we would NEVER do when it comes to our teeth and gums. Use our teeth to open a bottle cap or for any other non-dental use. [...]
It may be a first date or it may be a long-term relationship, but whatever the goal, young women and men have clearly stated what the "must-haves" are - at least when it comes to initial attractiveness. Recently a survey was done of over 5,000 single adults and the results were surprising! Fortunately, trust and [...]
OK, so not all great things come from my Dad. A couple of years ago Cindee and I had to hire another chairside assistant. Cindee’s been through all of this in 20 plus years of working as a manager. (She actually has her own dental staffing business on the side, taking advantage of her experience). [...]
Despite our best efforts, most patients in our practice have had at least one cavity and filling in their lives, and if you are in your thirties or older, chances are your fillings were made of metal. Recently these fillings have become a controversial topic in the health press. This material, known as “amalgam,” is [...]
So, this is a common one. A patient comes in and asks what they should have done in a certain situation. Usually, I’ve always asked what I’d do for my Mom, sister, wife or one of my kids and that would cover it. Sometimes, that’s not quite enough. I had a patient ask me a [...]
