Sitting here in Chicago at the world famous Chicago Midwinter Meeting, helping plan the future of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. I feel very inspired that when we plan new vistas of learning and helping our members serve their patients even better.

Just read an interesting article on pain management that explains why a relaxing environment can make dental visits more pleasant.

Thank heaven for satellite radio!

It sure makes everyone happier when we give our Flax Dental patients their Bose surround sound noise elimination headphones and let them chill. Even better, when you know you have science recommending that we allow people to choose their own personalized music channel. We usually try to note which one(s) they pick–saves time in letting people relax. Some people are “surfers” ( like me) but most settle into their comfort zone.

Of course I miss the days when we were playing endless streams of comedy like Seinfeld. But when I know that we are giving our patients a more valuable ( and perhaps more entertaining ) dental visit, we are helping in ways that dentistry never dreamed possible.

It’s truly a blessing that I get to help dreams come true on a daily basis–as well as in the future.

Until next time, keep smiling right,

Hugh

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Just recently, Flax Dental collaborated with the Queen of Hearts Foundation to promote awareness about the mouth body connection between women’s heart disease and gum infection.

Here are some important facts to know:

• More than 500,00 women die of heart disease annually-breast cancer deaths are estimated at 40,000-making heart disease the number one killer of women
• According to many past and recent research studies, it has been shown there are two obvious cardiovascular biomarkers caused by gum disease-C-reactive protein (CRP) and Lipoproteinassociated Phospholipase A2 ( Lp-PLA2).
• Any gum disease that is diagnosed and treated early enough has enormous impact on improving the chances of decreasing heart disease (more details)

At a recent event in our office we raised funds to help QOHF continue their outreach educational services. Their founders, Katy Attebery and Carmen Perez are very passionate about saving lives. We are proud to be associated with them.

We hope you will join them too–not just helping yourself, but also helping a friend.

Changing lives and saving them adds so much energy and gratitude to what we do every day at Flax Dental.

We hope everyone can be just as lucky.

Until next time, keep smiling right

Hugh

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I thought of the title of the old Fats Domino song recently as my Flax Dental staff and I watched Diane Sawyer’s recent show on ABC’s Good Morning and 20/20 ” Heroes of the Hills”  http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6889704.  As we watched the film, you see young children in the poorest parts of Appalachia drinking Mountain Dew soft drinks like most kids have milk.             

The Results: rampant tooth decay that ultimately leads to tooth loss. According to the Centers for Disease Control, this region of Kentucky now leads the nation in having the great number of missing teeth.

For those who don’t know,  Mountain Dew and many other “energy drinks” have high sugar, high caffeine, and high acid contents ( with pH levels below 4) that literally “eat your teeth”. Mountain Dew is very popular because of it’s caffeine content is 50% higher than Coke or Pepsi. It supposely helps with depression, etc. for many kids.

• For many children in Appalachia, many get Pepsi in their baby bottles
• Some have as many as 12 cavities by the time they are 2 years old
• Many grow unable to attempt cleaning their teeth because they are so tender and painful

Thankfully, Edwin Smith, DDS has come to the rescue in his roving dental office, a converted 18 wheeler, to help these children break the habit and make their mouths healthy and smiles white once again.

Although Pepsi, Co. has denied responsibility in the past, the company recently donated $150,000 to help out Dr. Smith.

That’s very nice. Just a lttle late in the game. Kind of reminds me of a cigarette company donating a gym to a school for exclusive rights to a cigarette machine in the cafeteria.

What really would be great is if Pepsi–and every softdrink maker out there–would prominently display the acid content, sugar levels, and caffeine amounts so that people would realize the dangers of what they are drinking.

Even better, since psychologists have shown that “Showing often leads to doing”   

Put a picture of child who has several dark cavities and missing teeth on each can with a warning label!

What are your thoughts or comments?

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After several months of updating, I am very happy to restart our Blog to share the innovative artistic and scientific side of lifelike and durable cosmetic dentistry as well as update you on the latest information on anti-aging and wellness that goes beyond our website www.FlaxDental.com .

As my Internet friend Seth Godin shared with many others at the beginning of the year: ” The opportunity this year is bigger than ever: to lead change, to create a movement in a direction you want to go. While the rest of your world huddles and holds back, here’s a golden chance to use cheap media, available attention and great talent to make something that matters.”

The intent of this forum is to not only increase your knowledge to inform yourself and your friends. I want to encourage comments and question so that we have a collaborative relationship as we do with our patients. The important thing is to learn and grow so that we make “something that matters”.

I am looking forward to spending this journey with you. 

Hugh

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