A lemming is in the rodent family of animals. Lemmings are known for following each other—no matter what…even right off the proverbial cliff to their deaths. According to Wiki, this might be stretching the truth a bit. Due to a "strong biological urge," a lemming will recognize...
I could not wait until I was out of dental school. Graduation day in May of 1998 was positively one of the most memorable days of my life. Honestly, it wasn’t because of all of the pomp and circumstance—although Lloyd Carr’s commencement speech was pretty...
The wild success Lucy Hobbs Taylor had as a dentist in Kansas, Missouri, undoubtedly occurred because of her ability to teach. During a time period when women were not dentists, she trailblazed her way through Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, and then finally Kansas. But, where did...
It's gonna happen. You are going to screw up. You will make an error. As a matter of fact, you will make hundreds of errors in your lifetime. What you do next is the most important thing. Although it's impossible to list all of the types...
Mastering the business side of dentistry is something I completely underestimated. I knew I learned very little in dental school despite our professor's attempts to teach us the basics of practice management. It seemed so irrelevant at the time, or at the least under prioritized. I...
The World Health Organization caught my attention when it called for feedback in regards to its newly proposed, dietary guidelines in regards to sugar consumption--free sugar to be exact. Free sugar, according to the W.H.O., is categorized as, "monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides...
My friend’s quick shoulder surgery snowballed into a 6-week absence. She called me to help out. I re-arranged my schedule to be able to make it to her office once a week and help during this aggravating time for her. The first day went great—mostly crown...
It didn't take me long to realize I was ill-equipped to treat medically compromised patients. It was only week one of our two-week hospital dentistry rotation at the University of Michigan Hospital. "The U Hospital" was and still is a mecca of medical enigmas and...
It seems fitting that this blog post will come out on the day we observe Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. If there was ever a symbol of freedom–it is this great man. Freedom means the difference between breathing deeply and barely being able to breathe. Martin...