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Hi and welcome to our office! 

This Fall has brought new changes in the form of being fortunate enough to find some of the finest staff in the specialty of pediatrics to join us.

First is Tanya, she is a dental assistant who graduated at the top of her class and is up to date on all of the newest developments in pediatric dentistry.  Welcome Tanya!

Next is Krista, the smiling face that will greet you when you come to visit us.  Krista has a Bachelor’s Degree in a specialty area of Child Development and social interactions of children from Iowa State University. As our new Patient Care Coordinator she will help you by finding the appointment times that are best for your child and encouraging your child and family and, even when you can’t see her work behind the scenes, she’ll be there making sure your needs are met.

These fine people have been added to our staff because of our practice’s continued growth. 

I thank all of you for that growth as your refer your friends, family and coworkers for care with us.  We always endeavor to make you a hero to those you refer!

We continue to stay on the cutting edge of comfortable and safe dental care.  We continue to use the Erbium: YAG  hard tissue laser for cavities.  It puts the tooth to sleep without a “shot” or the numbness that follows.  Our Diode Lasers are use to remove soft tissue growths of the mouth and to perform the most successful treatment to pulp tissue in infected teeth.  Remember that our practice is one of only a handful in the Midwest to use these painless lasers that are kind to tooth structure and allow me to more precisely remove decay and take away less tooth structure.  We are adding the latest in sterilization equipment.  It does exactly what our current state of the art machines do, but does it faster.  Did you know that we send in tests to an independent lab on each sterilization device we use EACH WEEK  to assure the sterilization of instruments used with our patients.  That way you can be assured that when we open a package of sterilized instruments, they are indeed sterile and contain no germs!

This year will see even greater improvements in our care for your child with advancements in equipment and continued training for our staff.  Thank you again for making our year fun and rewarding by sharing your children with us!

Dr. Wade

I continue to play the violin and saxophone for fun and with my family.  My daughter will be playing with her high school orchestra in Paris this Spring and the rest of my family will go along (my wife and I to chaperone).  This years Christmas concert for our extended family may just include a saxophone solo of some carols as I have improved from last year!    Dr. Wade

Congratulations are in order for some of our staff with upcoming wedding plans.  Laura and Megan T. will be getting married within the next year or so.  Congratulations  to these fine young women!

NEW GAME FOR RECEPTION AREA

Our reception area gained a fantastic new addition this fall. We have placed a new touch screen game system among our wall mounted systems. This is the top of the line! It has over 100 games from virtual fingerpainting for very young patients to Sudoku for older patients or parents. Recently a mother and grandmother who’s child was having her teeth cleaned had a chance to play and were disappointed that they had to stop when their child was done! It has games for kids down to age two; below if a parent is helping. I’m excited for you to see and experience this new way to relax with us.

PRIZES NOW MORE FUN!!!!!!!

This Fall we have been able to add a fun addition to our office. If you have been to our office before, you know that each child gets one prize for being them, “because God only made one you!” and another for helping with their care. This concept rewards kids for being them, not based on doing anything at all; it increases their self esteem inherent in being themselves!

We have incorporated a fun new twist on this idea. We have added a toy machine that vends toys of different types to the kids. Chairside they are given one gold coin for being them, and one for helping us. When they leave, they can spend their coins in the toy machine. It also helps with learning about choice making as there are three choices. One is a larger prize that costs two coins, and the other two each cost one coin. It is enjoyable to watch them make up their minds as to how they will handle their “financial riches”. It is good to see kids grow and learn and have fun doing it!