Painless Dentistry and other trends
If you have ever seen Steve Martin’s dentist protrayal in “Little Shop of Horrors”, or Lawrence Olivier asking Dustin Hoffman, “Is it safe?” in “Marithon Man”, you know my initial reaction of a dental appointment. Once I get there, it is not nearly as bad and dentists are trying their best to make the visit comfortable if not downright please.
We asked dentists for their thoughts on trends and one is making the visit more enjoyable. I never thought I would put spa and root canal in the same sentence, but see our article on The Modern Dentist.
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May 18th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I read somewhere that the main reason people don’t like going to the dentist is not fear of the “needle” and pain, but that they don’t like constantly being told that they were not taking proper care of their teeth and gums. I have to say, I am skeptical of that conclusion.
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May 18th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Me too, Dr. J. I have really never noticed much nagging, just pointers.
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June 19th, 2009 at 12:34 am
There are many trends in dentistry today. Yes, you can now put dental spa and root canal in the same sentence since dentistry offers painless procedures at last.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Great discussion and I like your input. Fast question. I are preparing to build a site using wordpress ourselves. Will you share a good resource for templates and the best plug ins to make it easy for staff to update content in a nice user friendly way? Thx in advance.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Hi, San Diego Dental.
Our Web folks (Infoswell Media) set this up for us to go with the rest of our site, so we unfortunately can’t be much help. But we’ve found WordPress easy to work with. Good luck!
Leigh Ann Otte
Managing Editor
http://www.MyFamilyDoctorMag.com