Sweet Fang!

We dressed up at work today for halloween. We each had a pair of fangs that we made. We thought that would be cute for a dental office. We had a lot of fun with it! After wearing the fangs all day I realized something. If you ever run into a vampire--He will probably have a lisp. Fangs are hard to speak with!
check out some of our pictures--it got a little crazy around the office! (Not sure that the rest of the staff know I posted these--enjoy!)
--your friendly dental assistant!

tricks or treats!

Its time for trick-or-treating once again! It's always fun to see those little goblins and ghouls out roaming the streets for treats, but you would never give them battery acid as a trick...or would you? Here is some interesting, and somewhat disturbing facts about some of the candy we are handing out to those little princesses and G.I. Joes. If you remember the PH scale from middle school science class you will recall that a zero is the most acidic you can get, like battery acid. a Seven is neutral, like pure water and a 14 is the most basic you can get, like liquid drain cleaner. Now listen to this: some of the candy we are handing out is nearing battery acid on the acidic scale!
sweet Tarts 3
sour punch straws 2.5
Starburst 2.4
lemonheads 2.4
sour skittles 2.2
pixie sticks 1.9
now and laters 1.9
fun dip powder 1.8
war heads 1.6
and battery acid is a ZERO!

We are doing our best to combat all that acid. Acid wears away enamel making teeth more susceptible to cavities. At Cheyenne Mountain Dental Center we are doing a Great Halloween Candy buy back. Kids can bring in their candy (after they pick out a few favorites to enjoy) and for each pound they bring in we will give them a dollar and some coupons to fun places around town. With all that candy that we collect we will be sending it to the troops overseas (along with toothbrushes!) as part of operation Gratitude. All the kids that bring in candy will get the chance to sign a card and tell the troops how much they appreciate them. This is the second year we will be doing this, and last year we collected over 200 pounds of candy. We will be collecting candy November 2nd through November 10th. Please bring in your kids and participate with us this year!

Royal Flush

Good Morning all my lovely blog readers. Happy October!
I love to think about inventions. I like to think about things that I could invent. Things that I should invent. Things that I wish I had invented. While thinking about things I wish I had invented it led me to those Scrubbing Bubble Toilet Wands.
You can switch out the brushes on the end and toss them because they collect so much bacteria that you don't even want to clean your toilet with the same one twice. Those were a great invention! I am guessing that you keep that great invention right next to your toilet, that flushes numerous times a day. Now how close to that toilet are you keeping your toothbrush? Every time that toilet flushes bacteria (and who knows what else!) is being thrown into the air and possibly and probably landing on your toothbrush. All together now....EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!
Now we have all heard that you are supposed to change your toothbrush every three months, and that you should also change your toothbrush after you have a cold or flu, but what about all the bacteria that accumulates in between those times. What to do, what to do!
Well There is a toothbrush sanitizer that is perfect for those in between times!
All together now....YAY!
The toothbrush sanitizer is from Violight and can sanitize up to 4 toothbrushes at once in 6 minutes. There is also a travel size you can take on vacation with you. To sanitize it uses germicidal ultraviolet light to physically destroy the DNA of the offending microorganisms.
here is a link to check it out. http://violight.com/vitobrsa.html
Does anyone have one of these? Have you used one in the past? Comment and share what you think about it!