Today, in our practice we have more adult patients undergoing orthodontic treatment than ever before.  There are several reasons for this.  Patients are realizing that you can wear braces at any age.  People now expect to keep their teeth for a lifetime, so they want to enjoy the benefits of great looking teeth.  Baby boomers, in particular, do not want to see themselves as getting old and a big part of looking and feeling youthful is having a nice smile.  There is a greater awareness of different treatment options, such as Invisalign, clear braces, and speed brackets. The traditional “railroad tracks” are now passe.  New technology in orthodontics now allows for more choices, faster treatment and better results.  So go ahead, if you want a better smile, take the plunge, make the call, and come in to talk to us about your options.  The results can be life changing.

I have just returned from Seattle, Washington where I attended a phenomenal updating symposium at the Kois Center for Dental Excellence.  As a graduate of the post grad program mini-residency, I am invited (along with over 200 other dentists world wide) to attend the annual update symposium for the purposes of reviewing and evaluating the practical application of all new research that has been published over the past year.  Attendance at this symposium and implementation of the recommended procedures, enables me to bring to my patients all the latest tested and proven developments in a broad area of dentistry.  It  was a great experience and armed with this new knowledge, I am able to utilize the most proven materials, techniques and treatment to which all patients are entitled.  Stay tuned for more…..

If you’re a patient of ours and you have an email address then I’m sure you are familiar with Smile Reminder, our on line appointment reminder system.  Many of our patients have expressed how much they appreciate the email and text reminders telling them of their upcoming appointments.  Missed appointments are frustrating to everyone and this has helped minimize them.  
We also use the system to send out surveys after recent visits to the office.  We want your feedback on how we are doing and appreciate the time you take to complete them.  A new add-on feature to the survey will be the ability to post your comments directly to Google.  So if you like us, feel free to tell the world along with your friends and family.  We love referrals.

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Bite Therapy Success with Deprogrammer

It seems that we hear more and more people are suffering the discomfort of an improper bite.  Tight jaw muscles, headaches, worn or chipped teeth are just a few ways this problem manifests.  There are solutions to these problems and we’ve had great success with an appliance called a Deprogrammer.  The way in which it works is by slightly keeping the teeth apart by having the front teeth bite on a small piece of acrylic behind the upper front teeth.  This in turn allows the muscles of the jaw to relax in a neutral position.  Once fully relaxed, or “deprogrammed”, Dr. Waldman can then more easily find the bite anomaly that forces the muscles into a stressed position.  She can then often “adjust” the bite, through a process called “equilibration” which concludes with the patient feeling less muscular stress in increased stability and comfort on the bite.

Here’s what one of our patients had to say about it.

“I was sceptical at first, thought I only needed a night guard.  The deprogrammer stopped my night grinding and my jaw feels relaxed!  I can’t believe what a difference the deprogrammer has made.”   Karyn M

 Stay tuned for more responses from our patients on this simple yet highly effective treatment for jaw or TMJ problems

It was a week of sweltering heat in T.O.  Thank goodness for a.c.  It was a sizzling hot week in our office too. We had several large cases that required various forms of sedation.  For example, we did beautiful Cerec crowns on a very nervous patient with general anaesthetic, she wanted to be completely asleep and then wake up with all her crowns done in a single visit.  On another patient we performed implant second stage surgery along with bone grafting site development for future implants and new provisional crowns on all 12 teeth on the upper arch.  He only wanted local freezing and was most comfortable with this.  A third patient had a single front tooth implant placed and was most comfortable with oral sedation and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) only. She woke up to a new fully aesthetic “tooth” (provisional crown) where there had been no tooth before.  It is so satisfying to be able to meet our patients’ needs and be able to produce this level of care. We do not provide “one size fits all” dentistry.  Our practice is committed to treating each of our patients as an individual with their own specific requirements.  Our objective is to do the very best we can to meet the needs, goals and expectations of our patients.

We recently introduced the Spa Dent Whitening System into our practice and the response has been amazing.  Our patients are loving this 15 minute in office whitening procedure because they can add a few minutes to their hygiene appointments and walk out with not only clean but also with sparkling white teeth.  What a great way to enhance that summer glow and all for under $80.00 (+hst).  You gotta love it!!!!!