We were recently named one of the “Top Dentists” in Northeast Ohio. We were listed on the “Top Dentist” website as one of the three recommended offices for dental care in Cleveland. Please check it out, and let your friends and colleagues know as well. We are always here for you – and for them; we welcome your referrals – and send you a Starbucks gift card as our way of saying “thanks.”
All of us here at www.ClevelandSmiles are gratified by your support; it is, indeed, a team effort!!!
Happy New Year to all of our patients, colleagues, friends, and followers!!! We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season – but even if you never made it to the “ball drop” at New York’s Time Square, make sure that you don’t drop the ball on your dental treatment this coming year, 2012.
We have a number of new techniques and products that we will be “featuring” in 2012, both dental and non-dental. Included among them are Oraverse (that reverses the numbness from injections), nitrous oxide (laughing gas for patients with dental anxiety), thinner and stronger porcelain veneers (both Lumineers and Dental Ceramic veneers), and even an iPad for the reception area!
It is our intention that these and other innovations will keep you smiling all year long!
Last week, we were featured on a segment of WKYC’s morning program ‘Good Company.’ Dr. Marsh sat down with Joe Cronauer to discuss our passion for those in the teaching profession, and our passion for helping our patients achieve the perfect smile. You can watch our segment in the video window below. Be sure to head over to Cleveland Smiles on Facebook to let us know what you think, or contact us if you would like to learn more about improving your smile this holiday season.
On a very serious note, over the past few months we have seen a number of our patients who are being treated for very forms of cancer, including one patient who we diagnosed with oral cancer, localized in her tongue, and another with a large tumor in an area just behind the lower jaw.
As you know, part of our examination of our patients includes a cancer screening, often done following your dental hygiene appointment. We take this part of your recare/recall appointment very seriously.
In addition to making referrals to the appropriate oral surgeon and/or physician, we often recommend the use of a highly flouridated toothpaste, such as Previdental 5000 and Prevident 5000 booster. They are by prescription and should be used nightly to combat dry-mouth, which can lead to tooth decay and tissue sloughing, which are often consequences of radiation treatment and chemotherapy used to fight the cancer. These toothpastes can also be used for our patients with diabetes and those people taking medications for high blood pressure, who may also suffer from dry-mouth.
Our new bi-monthly e-mail contests, created by our office manager Afsaneh, have proven to be very popular. When we let you know about our WKYC-TV “Golden Opportunity” appearances, Afsaneh includes a quotation that our e-mail recipients are asked to identify; the first three people (after all, the show is on channel 3 in Cleveland) who guess the origin correctly receive a $10 Starbucks card. Among our first winners, Sheila H. exclaimed that it was “the first time I’ve ever won anything!!!” We congratulate her and the other winners.
Speaking of Starbucks, we are thanking those of you who refer patients to our office with a $25 gift card. Beyond the card, I should let you know that referrals to your family, friends, and colleagues are extremely gratifying to all of us, as you are making us one of the top dentists in Cleveland! Thanks again for all of your support.
We always try to be one of the most innovative dentist in Cleveland, and to that end we are hoping to integrate the Apple iPad to make it easier for our patients to update their medical conditions when entering our office. We will have it available in our reception room to fill out patient registration forms and dental/medical forms. It will also be available to use to connect to the internet to check your e-mails and browse the Internet. It can also be used to send in post-treatment evaluations for Angie’s List and other web-based review sites. If you would like to use it, just ask Afsaneh or Karin, and they will be glad to assist you!
As long as I am speaking about our reception area, we have been getting a number of favorable comments about our choice of magazines and our “food area,” which includes Kashi bars and Snyders pretzels, as well as a selection of coffees, including Green Mountain and Starbucks. If there is any other brand you’d like to see, please tell us. The same thing applies to our magazine selections, which include “The New Yorker,” “Vanity Fair,” “Town and Country,” and the ubiquitous “People Magazine!”
Our patient and friend Ursuline College Fashion, Design, and Merchandising Chair Connie Korosec is featured in this month’s “Cleveland Business Connects” magazine’s 50th issue. She brought a number of Ursuline students with her when she visited the Republic of Malawi in southeast Africa to help teach students in an 800 pupil school how to sew. According to Connie, it was a life-changing mission, both for her and the group from Ursuline as well as the students from Malawi. (On a dental note, she let us know, through her daughter Jill, that when she was photographed for the magazine, the first thing the photographer said upon meeting her was that he “loved her smile!’).
In order to accommodate all of our patients, family, and friends, your office here at ClevelandSmiles is fortunate to have a number of very capable and enthusiastic dental hygienists. They include Amy B., who has been with us on a full-time basis for seven years, and Barbara G., and Jill O., who work with us a couple of days per week. All three women have excellent skills, training and provide wonderful care. If you would like to see one of them in particular, please let Afsaneh and Karin know so that we may fulfill your request. Having such a wonderful staff is especially important during this time of year when students are home from school.
Speaking of school, and colleges in particular, we are proud of a number of high school seniors who have graduated and, in some cases, are moving on to college. Miami University (my undergraduate alma mater) and The Ohio State University (where I attended dental school) are popular choices, though we also have patients who were accepted to schools including Princeton and Duke. Our congratulations go out to all the graduates!
When summer comes around, and our high school and college students are on break, I always get a lot of questions about wisdom teeth and whether or not they should be extracted/”come out.” Each patient/case should be looked at on an individual basis, though in general, I am conservative on their removal. Factors that need to be looked at include:
The age and health of the patient
Room in the arch
The angle of eruption – or non-eruption – on teeth that are impacted (i.e. unable to come in due to being blocked by adjacent teeth)
The position of the mandibular nerve (that runs below and/or adjacent to the wisdom tooth)
The bone and tissue surrounding the tooth
If you have any questions, or would like yourself or your student to be evaluated, please call our office at 1-440-461-1003 or contact us here and let us know.
We’ve received some nice feedback on our newsletter (where we highlighted our blogs). We would welcome any thoughts on topics we might cover here or in future newsletters on our office and your Cleveland dental care.
An item we mentioned in “Smile Update” was our new flatscreen monitors in the treatment and reception rooms. They are DVD capable, so we are able to watch anything from dental techniques, which we have shown on NBC/Channel 3’s “Golden Opportunities,”“Good Company,” and their brand-new Saturday morning show “It’s About You!” to movies and TV shows for longer appointments. Just let us know what you would like to watch!
Dr. Steven P. Marsh is the premier Cosmetic Dentist in Cleveland, Ohio. He employs the latest technology
to achieve the best results and to make your visits as comfortable as possible.
