Are you looking to find a family dentist? You don't have to lower your expectations to just any family dentist, and you need to place higher standards for the health of your teeth. You may have been compelled by situations to take a dentist by not having a better alternative to choose from. It's a difficult choice. You want someone qualified to do a great job inside your mouth. Read ahead, and you'll discover what to look for when choosing a dentist - even when the choices are limited, you want to make sure you have the good idea of a qualified dentist before he or she works on your teeth.

As it is said, once bitten twice shy, don't wait until you go through a situation and end up dealing with a mediocre Kenosha area dentists once you notice your teeth are not getting any better. The situation can bite you and get worse. You need to make sure a dentist have up-to-date credentials and continues to improve his or her skills. A dentist who keeps improving will provide a high quality of work.

If you are unsure. Don't be afraid to ask them for references. An honest dentist will have no problem offering them. This also gives them credential, and also allows you to have some confidence that someone has used the services and is satisfied. See how busy is the dentist. A busy dentist can be bad or good. If the appointments are busy, it's a good sign that the dentist has a good numbers of patient who like him or her. However, you have to watch out for those dentists who are squeezing too many patients into their schedule and sacrificing quality over quantity.

Dentist who allow questions and answers them appropriately. There is a lot that you learn from a dentist about the health of your teeth. A dentist whom you can ask questions easily and get helpful responses is a good sign of a knowledgeable dentist and also someone who puts quality up front.

Look at the cleanliness of the room. How well are the things in the room arranged? How is the condition of the equipment used? What you see from the room is a reflection of how the dentist works. A dentist should have pride in his or her work, and a well cleaned and organized room shows that detail and pride.

Build a relationship with your dentist. A good dentist will care for his or her patients. Someone who cares will give good service too. Once you find one, you can be sure that anyone in your family or friends will be treated kindly and fairly. Just choosing a good dentist is not just one step. You will need to do some leg work and do some follows up. Don't be afraid to look for a new dentist if the current one doesn't feel right for you.

Dentists are still an easy target. From movies and television, to magazines and books, dentists are frequently portrayed as either inherently sadistic or greedy and unethical. Unfortunately, these dental accounts are often stereotypically one-sided and misrepresent the facts. The latest inductee to the hit parade is James Frey's best-selling book 'A Million Little Pieces.' Although recently on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Frey was forced to admit to both 'mistakes and lies', he did not back down from the 'recollections' of his dental experience. The cumulative result of this barrage of misinformation is that people can become frightened of the dentist, and the dental treatment they need.

Even 30 years after its debut, The Marathon Man still congers up fearful memories of Dustin Hoffman's torture by Laurence Olivier, who plays an evil ex-Nazi who was a concentration camp dentist. Although Hoffman knows nothing about the diamonds in the safe deposit box, Oliver viciously torments Hoffman by performing air abrasion drilless detistry Kenosha procedures without anesthesia and repeatedly asks him: Is it safe? How many people also concluded that going to the dentist was 'not safe' after that traumatic scene.

Ten years later, the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors had Steve Martin playing the mean, motorcycle riding, nitrous oxide inhaling dentist, Orin Scrivello. When Orin was young, he enjoyed doing cruel things to animals, so his mother thought he should seek a career where his natural tendencies would pay off. By being a dentist, people would actually pay him to cause pain, and as a bonus, he would also "get off" on their misery. Both of these movies create and then solidify the notion that dentists cause pain, not cure it, and that we are malicious opportunists.

It is an unfortunate fact that television has rarely shown dentists in a positive light in news, general programming, or adverting. Unflattering sitcoms and commercials frequently use fear of the dentist and dental treatment in their contrived scenarios. Even more disturbing is when a trusted news program delivers misinformation to its viewers. A case-in-point is the December 16, 1990 edition of 60 minutes. When I remind you of the title of the segment, 'Is there poison in your mouth?' you can easily tell the direction this 'news' program was going. This is an excerpt from the program hosted by Morely Safer:

The question is: 'Is there poison in your mouth?' The American Dental Association says there isn't. But some of its members say there is, and have stopped using it. 'It' is a filling, a silver amalgam filling, the bridges Kenosha filling of choice for more than a century. More than a hundred million of them were put into American mouths last year. What you probably don't know is that these so-called silver fillings are 50% mercury, and mercury is more poisonous than lead or even arsenic.

In one of many examples, Safer interviewed a woman who was cured of multiple sclerosis one day after removing her amalgam fillings. Even though I doubt the credibility of the account, let's assume for a moment that the story was true. Now what if I told you that the sale of ice cream and shark attacks were strongly correlated? Whenever there was a high number of ice cream sales, shark attacks increased. Did the ice cream sold to a child in Montana cause a shark to attack a surfer in Hawaii? Of course not, and the removal of amalgam fillings did not cure multiple sclerosis. Dentists, medical doctors, scientists, statisticians, and other informed individuals all know that correlation is not causation, but it can serve as a clever trick in a scurrilous argument.

Pat Crawford DDS

7851 Cooper Rd

Kenosha, WI 

53142

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