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Just a filling? “Oh I just had a filling”, my friend says, in a most casual and nonchalant way.   He was responding to my question about his visit to the dentist. I was struck by the way he placed such little importance on the event. It was as though he said something...

Perspective means how you look at something.  People say ‘I know where you are coming from’.  What they mean is that they can appreciate your perspective, your point of view.  When that does not happen they might say ‘I just don’t get you!’ Perspective means to look...

Many people do not understand what a dental filling is despite the fact that these procedures are the most performed in dentistry. People talk about fillings as though they are magical items that are put in teeth and the teeth are 'fixed'. Its like an item you buy for...

My work in the dental field has taught me more about the human condition than I could ever have imagined. When I walked out of graduate school in 1980, my head was full of methods, techniques and procedures all based in what was supposed to be ‘science’.  I thought...

DEFINING MOMENTS   Sometimes life can throw a curveball at us that can really catch us off guard. What seemed a perfectly normal day in the surgery suddenly took an unusual and very defining turn for me.  Suddenly all I thought was straight-forward...

We have all heard the routine of the nightly tooth brushing conflict. There’s no doubt parents would be delighted for you to impart some wisdom as to how to avoid the daily oral hygiene confrontation, writes Philip Christie   Have you brushed your teeth, Billy?’ comes...