I was recently asked to participate on the Everyday Health Dental Expert panel. Here are some short answers to the questions they asked their expert panel. 1. Do over-the-counter teeth-whitening products work as well as professional options? In some cases over the counter whitening products do help achieve the results the patient is looking for. In office [...]
Posted in Beauty, Comfort, Health | Tagged amalgam, bisphosphonates, braces, bump, clear correct, coffee, cosmetic, deciduous, Health, heart, hospital, invisalign, lingual, makeover, orol, periodontal, smoking, stain, veneers, whitening | Leave a commentHave been out of the Blogosphere for a while but I read two articles recently that stimulated my thought process and I felt warranted a comment or two. The first appeared in the Thursday Style section of the NY Times on October 21, 2010 (see below). The 2nd appeared in the editorial section of the [...]
Posted in Beauty, In the News, Patient Experience | Tagged average, jason kim, NY times, perfect, smile | Leave a commentI presented a lecture to the Oral Surgery and General Practice Residents last week at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on “Implant Aesthetics”. As part of the presentation I talked a little bit about the “Psychology of Beauty” so residents get a better understanding of why the esthetics are so important to the patients they are treating. [...]
Posted in Beauty, In the News | Tagged Beauty, beauty junkies, esthetics, psychology | Leave a commentAs I’ve said before, in a world that is changing so rapidly in terms of technology, social interaction and economics, we’re trying hard to remain ahead of the curve. How do we change and stay in touch with our patients? How have their dental concerns about health, comfort and beauty changed over the last 18 [...]
Posted in Beauty, Comfort, Health, In the News, Patient Experience | Tagged my business magazine, patient care, relationship, survey, technology | Leave a commentSeveral years ago my office team and I spent some time attempting to redefine what we do and how we do it. We had a general idea of what we felt was important to our patients and to us in terms of the care we deliver but felt we needed to better define our [...]
Posted in Beauty, Comfort, Health, In the News, Patient Experience | Tagged articles, dental practices, Health, lifestyle, medicine., “cosmetic” dentist | Leave a commentThis week I presented a lecture to the Oral Surgery and General Practice Residents at New York-Presbyterian Hospital where I am on staff as a voluntary attending dentist. I was asked to speak about implants and aesthetic dentistry- certainly an interesting topic. I had an opportunity to speak to them about the changes I’ve seen [...]
Posted in Beauty, Health, Patient Experience | Tagged baby boomers, Beauty, dentist, Oral Surgery, plastic surgery, self-image | Leave a commentRobert M. Sorin, DMD I’m angry and sad today. I’m angry that blatantly false and inaccurate information is being disseminated to the public in the name of beauty. And I’m sad to see some in my profession “hawking” cosmetic procedures, to an increasingly susceptible public, that have no scientific basis for success. But let me [...]
Posted in Beauty, Health | Tagged Beauty, beauty junkies, cosmetic, extreme makeover, style, surgery junkies, the doctors | Leave a commentby: Trish Rubin That’s me now that I am on TRAY two, brace 2. I have graduated and, boy am I ever full of myself! I’m getting a bit scatterbrained too, but, I think it’s because this process is so easy…much easier than I imagined. So when I take my braces out briefly, I sometimes [...]
Posted in Beauty, Health, Patient Experience, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTooth whitening or “bleaching” one’s teeth has become very common today and we have some wonderful techniques in dentistry for getting great results with our patients’ smiles. However, we still get a lot of questions regarding “the truth” about all of those products you see at the grocery and drugstores, along with questions and doubts [...]
Posted in Beauty, Uncategorized | Leave a commentAs dentists concerned about and focused on facial appearance, we realize that a pleasing smile does not exist in a vacuum, unaffected by other facial structures. At times we need to consider overall facial symmetry, harmony, proportion and balance and to address parts of the face apart from the teeth. In April of 2008, The [...]
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