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'Living' Article May 2012- A Texas Dentist in the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
April 17, 2012
How is it that a Texas dentist has been inducted to the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame? Meet Dr. Leonie von Zesch, born in Texas in 1882. By age 19 she had graduated as a dentist from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco during an age when women dentists were few...
'Living' Article April 2012- "Why?"
March 20, 2012
Landen Living
April 2012
Why?
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me over the years why I wanted to be a dentist. Sometimes the question is asked by someone who quite clearly is creeped-out by the whole notion of deali...
'Living' Article March 2012- Is your dental implant at risk?
February 20, 2012
Landen Living
March 2012
One of the most significant elements to rise on the dental horizon during my career has been the predictable, versatile and game-changing availability of titanium dental implants. Implants can be utilized to anchor and stabilize dental prosthesis lik...
'Living' Article February 2012- "MATCHBOX" memories
January 19, 2012
What better time than the frigid days of February for collectors like you and me to get in touch with our collections? My wife will confirm that I have been in regular contact with my “MATCHBOX” Toys friends in recent weeks. The reference books are out and open and the eba...
'Living' Article January 2012- Combating Caries
December 20, 2011
Landen Living
January 2012
What better way to start the New Year than with a piece of very promising news on the dental health front? Dental caries, the process that ends in tooth decay, is one of the most common and expensive of America’s infectious dis...
'Living' Article December 2011- Christmas Traditions
November 17, 2011
Living
December 2011
My wife is a militant defender of the notion that each holiday deserves its due time. She resents it when the American commercial machine forces upcoming holidays on us before their true season. Never is she more disgusted than throu...
'Living' Article November 2011- Thanksgiving history
November 4, 2011
Living Article
November 2011
Most of us know at least the basic details that define America’s Thanksgiving holiday traditions. A group of people that we’ve come to know as the Pilgri...
'Living' Article October 2011- Trivia Challenge Answers!
September 17, 2011
Landen Living
October 2011
It was back in July when the questions were posed for this year’s ‘Dr. Davis Trivia Challenge’. Just as last year we had five genuine trivia experts who scored a perfect “10” for 2011. The ultimate...
'Living' Article September 2011- 'Fluroride... friend or foe?'
August 19, 2011
Landen Living
September 2011
At a recent continuing education course down in Charlotte, North Carolina I found myself sharing two days with a dentist who is absolutely determined that we’re doing America’s populous a huge disservice with our use of fluor...
'Living' Article August 2011- Out of the mouths of babes...
July 17, 2011
Landen Living
August 2011
Well folks, I have a confession to make. As a kid growing up in Michigan I did not have dreams of one day being a dentist. My first dream centered around the notion that I would one day take over for Al Kaline playing right fiel...
'Living' Article July 2011- 13th annual trivia challenge
June 20, 2011
Landen Living
July 2011
Year 13 for the “Dr. Davis Trivia Challenge”! Each year’s challenge reflects areas of personal interest to me. The rules remain the same as past years. You don’t have to be one of our patients to join...
'Living' Article June 2011: Dental radiology
May 21, 2011
On a daily basis we make decisions that involve an element of risk. I walk down the stairs from my bedroom each morning to prepare my bowl of oatmeal in spite of the fact that I could slip and fall on the steps. And then I rely on a car to get me from my garage to my dental office, an...
'Living' Article May 2011- Origins of 'Hygiene'
April 21, 2011
Landen Living
May 2011
My hunch is that if I were to ask a random group of people to define the word ‘hygiene’ most of them would make mention of practices geared toward cleanliness. In actual fact however, the word comes from ‘Hygieia&rs...
'Living' Article April 2011
March 19, 2011
Landen Living
April 2011
I’m having such fun with continued discoveries and new modes of treatment related to our CEREC restorative system. I’ve written in past months about this remarkable computer driven equipment that allows for same day design ...
'Living' Article March 2011
March 19, 2011
Landen Living
March 2011
‘The Colonel and the Cub Scout’
I thought I knew Bill fairly well. He worked as an engineer at GE Aviation’s Evendale jet engine facility. He and his wife Sydney lived just around the cor...
'Living' Article February 2011
January 26, 2011
Living
February 2011
The year is 1982. At age 45 Norwich, CT orthodontist Dr. Jeremiah Lowney is enjoying a successful career and is widely respected within his community. He is enjoying his family and the other abundant fruits of his labors when his lif...
'Living' Article January 2011
January 26, 2011
Landen Living
January 2011
It was 1985, just two years after I had graduated from dental school when Swiss dentist, inventor, professor Dr. Werner Mörmann acted on a vision that today, 25 years later has changed my professional life for the better. ...
'Living' Article December 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
December 2010
Within his book The Long Walk: the True Story of a Trek to Freedom, Polish soldier Slavomir Rawicz chronicles the story of his escape with six fellow prisoners from one of Stalin’s Soviet labor camps in the heart of Siberia. ...
'Living' Article November 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
November 2010
Dental Pioneer Tribute:
Willoughby Dayton Miller (1853-1907)
The Dental Caries Detective
In the spirit of Thanksgiving I introduce you today to Dr. Willoughby D. Miller, a dental pioneer whose legacy paved ...
'Living' Article October 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
October 2010
It was back in July when the questions were posed for this year’s ‘Dr. Davis Trivia Challenge’. Following a year in which we had no perfect entrants to the challenge, this year we had five genuine trivia experts who scored a perfect &ldq...
'Living' Article September 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
September 2010
How about some history this month regarding America’s legacy around dental education? During our recent Baltimore trip I learned that our nation’s first dental school, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, was char...
'Living' Article August 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
August 2010
Founded in 1859, the American Dental Association has been celebrating their sesquicentennial all this year. In each month’s ADA News publication they have been highlighting significant events and people from across America’s d...
'Living' Article July 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
July 2010
Year Twelve for the “Dr. Davis Trivia Challenge”! Each year’s challenge reflects areas of personal interest to me. The rules remain the same as past years. First of all, you don’t have to be one of our patie...
'Living' Article June 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
June 2010
I think it is fair to say that the average person on the sidewalk has never heard of Ernest A. McCulloch or ...
'Living' Article May 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
May 2010
For the vast majority of my dental career usual and customary treatment procedures called for certain patients who were at risk for bacterial infections to be medicated with a large dose of antibiotics an hour before a dental...
'Living' Article April 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
April 2010
It was 1974 when paleoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray were digging in Hadar, Ethiopia and stumbled onto the partial skeleton of the earliest known hominid of that time. This diminutive little human forerunner came to be known by ...
'Living' Article March 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
March 2010
Just how ‘happy’ are you, your friends and your family? According to new research published in the journal Science this past December we Ohioans rank just 44th in happiness when compared to the other states plu...
'Living' Article February 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
February 2010
Bisphosphonates are a multibillion dollar class of bone wonder drugs with more than 10 million users world-wide. The drugs are used both to combat the ravages of osteoporosis as well as to certain forms of cancer. Familiar brand name...
'Living' Article January 2010
January 26, 2011
Living
January 2010
It may be that January 1st is just another date on the calendar but I think most of us look at New Year’s Day as a benchmark. It is a day for clean starts, the launching of projects, and determined new mindsets.
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