A daily challenge in my practice is diagnosing radiolucencies around prior restorations. Is that radiolucency an open margin, recurrent decay or a resin layer that is radiolucent? This challenge leaves me with a diagnostic dilemma, and also changes how I chose materials out of the concern that my patients are in another dental office confronted with this Read More
Curators Journals
Did You Make The Catch
After watching a recent Seattle Mariners game and how the team worked together it got me wondering about teamwork in our offices. In the game a great baseball player missed a catch, but another team member got it, and they celebrated. So often in our practices we focus on what we miss, instead of how we pitch in for one another. What if we could focus on Read More
Looking back at how far you’ve come…
In the hustle and bustle of every day life, sometimes the best that any of us can do is simply survive. This is exactly why taking a moment or two to gain perspective on progress can be both enlightening and rewarding. It can be super hard to appreciate that all the hard work is actually paying off unless there is focus and attention on just how far the Read More
Keeping Up With All We Do
It has been an incredibly busy month. Lots of projects at work, at home and with family. Getting behind in keeping my commitment of two curator journals a month has me reflecting on how we manage all the things we do. I think for most of us we try and balance between doing all the things we need and want to do for family, work and ourselves. Balance for me Read More