Schubert Dental Care Blog

Our next trip to Baudin, Haiti will be Jan 24, 2013 – Feb. 1, 2013. We are looking for more volunteers to assist us in the dental clinic.

Dental experience is not required…only the desire to help.

Baudin Dental Mission is now an official 501 C chairitable organization recognized by the treasury Dept. and therefore all you expenses and/or donations are tax deductible.

Please check out the website Baudindentalmission.com for more info and to consider helping!

Another trip to our Haiti community of Baudin will begin Friday October 26 and we will return November 3.
I anticipate a very productive time…we will have 5 dentists !! Two dentists from St. Louis are joining us. They both have worked in Haiti before and are planning on building a clinic soon. They hope to benefit from the way our clinic is set up and how it is operated to help them in their mission.
It is an exciting prospect to be able to help others who are making a committment to serving the poor.
We also will be using 2 Haitian assistants on this trip. It is good to have their involvement and to be able to provide short term employment.

Schubert Dental Care will make a $50 charity donation & give kids $5 for every pound of candy they bring in!

We are putting our money where your children’s mouths are! It is well known that too much candy can lead to uncomfortable dental problems. We are doing something about it…while contributing to Baudin Haiti Dental Mission for Halloween candy brought in by local children.

The office will be making a $50 donation to Baudin Haiti Dental Mission & giving each child $5 for every pound of Halloween candy that children bring in!

We have named it “Cash For Candy”. It begins the day after Halloween and lasts until Saturday, November 10. No appointment neccessary! Your children are encouraged to simply walk in to the Schubert Dental Care office between 9:30am & 5:00pm on Monday, 9:30pm & 7:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday aor Thursday, or Saturday 9:00am & noon.

We started offering an In-Office dental program about 6 months ago and the response has been excellent!

With more and more employers dropping dental benefits for their employees or reducing benefits, this has been very helpful. The membership provides two free cleanings per year and we have seen that to promote much healthier mouths and less gum infection (gingivitis) and periodontal problems.

The 20% discount on all dental services also makes it more feasible to stay current with needed dental care.

The following is a reprint from the ADA News August 20, 2012 issue written by Stephen P. Blank, D.D.S. in Port Lucie, Florida.

“I just wanted to help clarify dentistry’s relationship with insurance as I see it after 30 years in practice…The real problem for dentistry that many dentists are unknowingly training their patients to think of insurance as their friend. Some go as far as signing contracts with the very insurance companies that tell them what to do.

Insurance companies care about taking in as many dollars as possible and paying out as few dollars as possible to maximize profit. They are some of the most profitable businesses in the USA, at your expense. Insurance companies don’t diagnose, treatment plan or render care. They just want patients (and some doctors ) to think they are looking out for the patient. They confuse patients with TV commercials that suggest that they are health care companies. They are looking out for their own bottom line.

Insurance companies have limited payments to about $1000 – $1500 for decades, while costs to purchase benefits have gone up. Benefits have been resrticted to crazy concepts (no tooth colored fillings or crowns on back teeth, no fixed bridge if a removable appliance will do, etc.).

Insurance companies routinely down code procedures to their own benefit. The insurance company costs have not gone up; they set their maximum risk up front. It doesn’t matter if your crown fee is $500 or $2000; they will quit paying when the patient’s limit is reached.

The reality is that dental insurance doesn’t exist. By definition, patients cannot insure against the need for hygiene care or X rays. They can only pre-pay some third party and then hope to get their own money back. Insurance does not cover catasrophic problems; only a very small part until the limits are reached, often not enough to fix even one tooth. …That third party then tries to dictate what doctors can do, contracted or not, what the patients are entitled to based on some contract, and then reduce the payment based on some hidden usual, customary and resonable tables that they create themselves. …

Insurance – based care is fragmented socialized medicine managed by many private companies. Insurance is a failed method of money management.”

Just a notice about homecoming in Plainfield on October 6, 2012. The streets all around downtown will be blocked off a good part of the day for the parades. If you have business or whatever and need to be in the area be aware you do not want to get stuck behind a line of cars trying to go into a blocked street. Find alternate routes to your destination. There should be alot of signs around indicating what is closed.

There is usually a notice in the newspaper to forewarn people but not that many people read the local papers daily.

A new product in dentistry that I have found very beneficial is called “Thera-cal”. It is a protective base (liner) that is placed under fillings and has been shown to significantly protect and insulate the pulp (nerve) of the tooth.

I have been using this material for about 6 months and am very impressed with it’s effectiveness. Teeth that would be sensitive have not and cavities that were borderline root canal have healed without doing the root canal.

It is also nice that it’s made by a very innovative dental product company right in Schaumburg Illinois!

The American Dental Association has a very informative and good website called MouthHealthy.org. This site has information you need to take better care of your mouth today so it will take care of you for life.

Search Topics. View Videos. Have Fun.

Explore ADA seal of acceptance to help you decide which dental products are right for you and your family.

For Kids! has activities and games to help kids learn the importance of good oral health care – all while having fun.

One the easiest paths to being well-liked and success in life and business is the art of being a good listener.
The #1 key to good listening is sincerity; being truly interested in what another is saying. Really, it’s what all of us wants, anywhere we go and in most everything we do: to be heard and understood.

What is involved in good listening?
*Direct eye contact. People trust you more if you look them in the eye.
*If you are leaning slightly forward it is because you are really with the other person.
*When you repeat back to the speaker a phrase or word that they say and nod a bit when in agreement.
*Avoid thinking of what YOU are going to say. You can’t be actively listening and at the same time thinking of your response.
*Never interrupt! That is a clear message that what you have to say is more important to you than what they were saying.

True interest cannot be faked and if not sincere the speaker will know it.

The experts in this listening art are people like Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightengale who have written books on this subject.

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