January 1, 2021 Dear Patient and Friend, I hope everyone is safe and well! With mixed emotions, I am writing this letter to announce my retirement from the practice of dentistry. Although I am in good health, I feel this is the right time for me and my family. After practicing for 37 years, the […]
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If you’re a Jets or Giants fan (although that is difficult at the current time!) you may keep up on statistics such as carries per game, yards per carry, and what not. At Gentle Dental, we not concerned with totin’ the rock, as they say. We’re not concerned with Saquon Barkley’s carries, but we could
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Just about everyone, except maybe George Clooney, grinds his or her teeth sometimes. After all, our bosses, kids, job, and other things can drive us crazy. Occasional teeth grinding, medically called bruxism, isn’t really any big deal — you have to clench your teeth occasionally when your boss is being a real idiot. The problem
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At Gentle Dental, we’re all about giving our patients from Edison and the surrounding areas a smile they’re proud to show off. Many of our cosmetic dentistry procedures take just a single appointment. Things such as in-office teeth whitening, bonding, and replacing silver amalgam fillings with composite resin only take a single appointment. Porcelain veneers
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Just as when your furnace stops working at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning when it’s a chilly -2-degree night in Edison, rarely do dental emergencies seem to happen during office hours. Sure, our office hours at Gentle Dental are more available than most — running from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday,
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After the past 18 months, it feels as if this year’s New Year’s Resolutions could have some more thought given to them for 2022. The one thing this dumb virus hasn’t turned upside down is the need to take care of your teeth. But did you make a New Year’s Resolution to take better care
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This time of year, we’re always munching on yummy stuff — from chocolate Santas to gingerbread men, from holiday cookies to peanut brittle. Only sometimes, that brittle can be a little more than brittle, and we end up chipping a tooth. Uh oh. As long as the chip is small, it’s not worrisome for the
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After the past 18 months, we’ve all spent far too much time in Zoom meetings and Facetime calls. In each, there’s always that little image of yourself there in the corner of your screen. This has given us all time to look at our faces — what else were we going to look at during
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At Gentle Dental, our entire team is dedicated to making our patients smile inside when they see their great smiles in the mirror every morning. But there is one thing that comes up this time of year that we know will make every patient frown — leaving dental insurance dollars unspent and then losing them
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There are a variety of reasons a person can be missing a tooth: gum disease, excessive decay, or due to trauma such as sport injuries. Some people opt to simply leave the gap in their teeth, but this can lead to other dental problems down the road. That missing tooth needs to be replaced. The
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