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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...