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
Lee Ann Brady DMD
Integrating New Learning
The last few days attending Leadership & Legacy I have really begun thinking about the idea of integration. Often after a CE course we think about what we have implemented, and use this as a way to judge the value of the program and our effectiveness. Integration is about the incorporation of ideas, new curiosities, seeing things differently and is way Read More
Values Clarification
Over the years I have been able to utilize multiple tools to get to know myself and others better. One of my favorites is called a values clarification. Our values are things that are important to us. The motivate our behavior without us even knowing it, and when something in our lives is in conflict with one of our core values it causes us upset and Read More
Patient Communication: You Grind Your Teeth
In this second piece on patient communication I wanted to discuss how we help a patient with tooth wear. Over the years this is one of the most common communication challenges I hear from other dentists. We joke about the dialogue where we tell a patient they grind and they respond "No I Don't". Although we laugh about it, this reflects a challenge of Read More