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 [...]
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 [...]
The Business Insider published a list of “18 Quick and Easy Daily Habits That Can Significantly Improve Your Life!” There were some good ideas on there, but these are a few of our favorite life hacks. • Write down the day’s most important task. Doing the most important (or most dreaded) task first thing [...]
We set the tone of our office by the music we select for every patient that comes in, but we don’t do Heavy Metal. OK, at least not in the teeth. As dentistry has evolved, we’ve moved away from metal restorations. Porcelains have gotten stronger and more versatile over the years. We’ve been admiring all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The new reception room. You might call it the DFD Art Gallery. We’ve finally finished almost all of our renovations. It’s been a year in the making since we changed our computer system to a cloud-based program that will allow us to serve our patients better in all situations. In the beginning of [...]
This is my favorite week of the year to look outside in my backyard. Last night both our Flowering Cherry tree and our Magnolia blossomed! They have an unbelievable contrast with the Forsythia below them. It looks and smells amazing outside and just makes me feel great every time that I see them! We have [...]
The hardest part of Dentistry usually has to do communication. This is no different from other professions and relationships in which we are all involved. Like other businesses communicating with coworkers, vendors and spouses (yeah, we can’t forget them now, can we?) is critical to a successful and smooth-running business. Let’s get on to the [...]
I wanted to just talk a little bit about dental X-Rays. Routine radiographs are critically important in trying to perform the most painless dental care, conservative and minimally invasive dentistry. About 35% of the cavities I diagnose are directly and solely from seeing them on a radiograph. Not just that, if we missed finding them [...]
