Your front office team member answers the phone and hears this question: “Hi, I am Mrs. Jones. At what age do you recommend we bring our son in for his first dental check-up?” What is your answer? If it’s anything except, “By age one, Mrs. Jones,” you...
February is Children's Dental Health month. In honor of children, I want to share some parenting insight and tricks to keep our kids healthy. I see lots of kids as a dentist, and I have two of my own. As parents, I know we tend...
“My kids went from basically a beige food diet to eating and loving a whole, wide variety of foods–-mussels, salad…my younger daughter’s favorite food now is stinky, blue cheese, ” said Karen Le Billon, author of Getting To Yum and French Kids Eat Everything. Would you...
Feel like you are burning the candle at both ends? Or maybe the dental hand piece at both ends? I certainly do at times, and that's why I took the time to interview Dr. Tracey Marks, a psychiatrist in Atlanta. She told me about the field...
 I came home and found a reorganized home with all of our Valentine's Day decorations meticulously placed. Some women would flip out. I stood and admired the beauty. When my husband was small, he loved to decorate his house around the holidays, but his parents didn't...
Weight lifting gives me a lot of juice. Maybe it's because I have watched one too many Rocky films or comically think back to Hans and Franz from Saturday Night Live and their endless efforts to "Pump you up!" I really do get pumped up from...
If my son decides to play football, I want him to be the kicker...
People speak volumes with their hands. If someone shakes my hand with such vigor and force that my knuckles turn white, I immediately recognize this as an awareness issue. Either the person is so nervous that they cannot control the force of adrenal flowing through their...
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...