On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 (St. Patrick’s Day) we closed our doors in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. At the time we hoped we didn’t have to stay closed for more than a couple of weeks. As we all know, weeks turned to months and we finally reopened on May 18, 2020 (the day […]
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It has been two months since the Minnesota Board of Dentistry, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Minnesota Governor closed all dental offices to procedures other than dental urgencies. In those two months Dr. Amble and his staff reviewed information and recommendations from the Minnesota Governor’s office, Minnesota Board of Dentistry, ADA, MDA, CDC,
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When asked what we are doing special for this current strain of corona virus named Covid-19, Dr. Amble said, “We are continuing to do everything we do every single day, with every single patient, via our universal precautions approach to infection control.” Regarding our patient’s health when they see us, “In addition, we continue to
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Part 2 of 3 discusses the implant placement itself. Our first blog post ended with the patient wearing a removable partial device while the extraction site healed. After the extraction site had time to heal, including time to integrate the bone graph material to improve bone structure, the implant was placed and given time to
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One of our friends asked us to help out with a project to help the bee population in Minnesota. We’re happy to do it and will even add a bee house (not a hive, but a house) to our property. For the whole story, go to this link –> bee kind MN or follow them on
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Today we are starting a short series on implant restoration to replace individual teeth. It consists of three parts, with part one including the loss of the patient’s original, natural tooth #4, which is a premolar on the upper right side. The subject patient’s tooth #4 has been previously endodontically treated and fractured prior to
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For those people that have written about the lack of evidence that flossing is beneficial to a person’s dental health I have two things to say: 1. “Slow news day? When you explain the results of this study to me, please speak in another direction so I don’t have to smell your breath.” 2. Life
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It is only recently that the link between dry mouth, caused by medications, including anti-depressants, and tooth decay / gum disease has been more widely known by the general public. However, people that have experience depression have known for a long time that it can take away the enthusiasm for many things in daily life.
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This post is kind of a throw-back because the party was held a couple months ago, but I realized I had a great picture and it was never posted. The dental office group had a great time with drinks, games and prizes (lucky Cory was the big winner again this year), and great food provided
2016 Dental Office Party Read More »
