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Our hygienists have a running list of things patients say when they sit down. The most common one, by a wide margin: "I only floss the day before I come in." We know. We can tell. Nobody is going to say anything about it. What we will say is that flossing three days a week beats flossing zero days a week, and it beats a perfect week before your appointment by a lot. Consistency at a low level does more than intensity right before an exam. If you have been avoiding booking because of that, book anyway.

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We bought a scanner, which means we have stopped using the impression putty. If you have had a crown or a night guard made before, you remember the tray. Four minutes, mouth full, trying not to gag, being told to breathe through your nose. That is gone. It is now a small camera and about ninety seconds, and you can watch your own tooth appear on the screen while we do it. We did not buy it to be advanced. We bought it because the putty was the single most complained-about thing in this office.

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Before you spend money on whitening, one honest thing: it works well on some kinds of discoloration and barely at all on others. Surface staining from coffee, tea, and red wine responds well. Yellowing that comes with age usually responds. Grey discoloration from an old injury or certain medications often does not, and no amount of gel changes that. A five-minute look tells us which one you have. If it is the kind that will not respond, we will say so and talk about the other options rather than selling you a treatment that will disappoint you.

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If you have had a filling here in the last three years, our assistant was the person watching your face. That is a real part of the job that patients never see. While the dentist is focused on the tooth, someone is tracking whether your shoulders have tensed, whether your hand is starting to move, whether you have stopped breathing normally. She stops us before the patient has to raise a hand. We do not have a metric for that. We just know the appointments run calmer when she is in the room.

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Every December we have this conversation, so here it is in advance. Most dental plans have an annual maximum that resets on January 1 and does not roll over. If you have treatment we recommended in April and have not scheduled, some of it may be covered by money that disappears at the end of the month. That is not a scare tactic, it is just how the plans are written, and it is why our December is chaotic. If you want to know what you have left, call and we will look it up. No appointment required to ask the question.

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Shared with permission. This took eleven months, not one appointment, and it involved a referral to an orthodontist for the first seven of them before we did anything restorative. We are posting it because the sequencing is the interesting part. Moving the teeth first meant we could be far more conservative with the tooth structure afterwards. Going straight to restorations would have been faster and would have cost more tooth. If you are considering something like this, the first honest question is whether orthodontics should come first. Often it should.

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We are closed Monday for training. The whole team, including the front desk, so nobody will be answering the phone. If you have a dental emergency that day, the answering service will take your details and one of us will call you back. Genuine emergencies get handled; a Monday closure does not mean you are on your own. If you need to reschedule something on Monday, call us before Friday afternoon and we will move it. After that you will be leaving a voicemail. Back to normal hours Tuesday at 8.

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If you have not seen a dentist in a while, the thing stopping you is probably not the price. Usually it is one of three things: you think you will be lectured, you do not know what it will cost before you commit, or you have no idea how long it will take. So: we do not lecture. You get a written estimate with your insurance applied before any treatment is scheduled, not after. And a first visit is about an hour, exam and images, with cleaning usually at a second appointment if there is a lot to do. We are taking new patients. Call and ask anything before you book.