A Thanksgiving Wish

Before I take off for a nice week with our kids and grandkids, let me take time to express my thanks to you for the kind support that you have given to Danyel and me through the American Association of Independent Periodontists.  In six very short months, you have...

Budgeting for Marketing

Michael, Thanks for your endorsement and support.   As many of you know, we are finding a way to make the periodontist the gatekeeper in our part of the universe.  And increasingly, as we teach others what we are doing, they are finding new vistas in periodontics.  I...

Creating Your Own Space

Creating Your Own Space Pigeonholed–put in a place that is too rigid or exclusive, so exclusive that your survival is compromised. Is that where you are? I remember a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, that I wrote to a well-known prosthodontic colleague of mine...

Equivocation

Equivocation. What a horribly sickening word, particularly when it comes at the expense of patient care. Dr. Rethman’s statement of the work that he and others of the AAP have done sheds light to me on what organized dentistry via the AAP has done for us.  Our leaders...