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Recent dentistry on my OWN certified dental assistant

Dr. Santelli — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:26:49 +0000

My dental assistant of 36 years, Joanne Bray, recently needed some long overdue dentistry. Years ago Joanne fractured her lower jaw and lost a few of her lower front teeth in an accident. I had made her a permanently fixed porcelain bridge about 30 years ago to replace what she had and it has served her well all of these years. However it was starting to look its age (as we ALL are) and we decided to use more modern materials and a few mini dental implants to replace the three missing teeth. We also, with the help of our pre-dental student Anthony, did one root canal and removed a small piece of root that was embedded in her jaw. After the three mini implants were placed we made her up a custom fabricated acrylic temporary until her permanent porcelain bridge is completed.
When I called Jaonne that evening to see how she was doing this is what she had to say:
Joe, I have to share with you my experience with my dental appointment today. You know the FEAR I have always had and the pounding in my heart started BEFORE I sat in the dental chair. I knew I was going to need a root canal and I was very concerned what you were going to find under my 30 year old bridge. I have to tell you I felt NO PAIN from the beginning until the end. Once again you performed your MAGIC! I could not believe how easy it was to have THREE mini implants placed, a root canal peformed and a root removed from my lower jaw. The fact that you and Anthony could do all of that in under two hours and then I was able to assist for you in the afternoon was totally astonishing to me. I have not even taken an aspirin and ALL of the novacaine has long worn off. I am so please to be a part of such a wonderful and caring office that creates beautiful SMILES…PAINLESSLY for all who come to us for dental care.
Thank you soooo much!
Joanne

Joanne Bray: She’s the BEST!!!

Dr. Santelli — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:36:35 +0000

Hello out there,
I just have to do a little bragging on my dental assistant of 35 years, Joanne Bray. This past Tuesday we decided to do some dentistry on Joanne that we had been putting off for way too long. It involved the lower front teeth (6 in all) where Joanne had a very old fixed porcelain bridge that had outlived its usefulness. First off after getting Joanne very numb using the PAINLESS WAND, I removed the old bridge. Joanne had lost her two lower front teeth long before I met her so we replaced those two teeth with two mini dental implants. Then we proceeded to perform a root canal on another tooth that had an exposed nerve. We then removed a root of a tooth that was not serving any purpose and lastly placed a very attractive temporary bridge until she gets some healing and we can proceed with the permanent porcelain bridge.
As you are all aware I always call my patients that evening after any difficult dentistry, which this certainly was. However, I got invited to a Red Sox game that got delayed two hours due to rain and I didn’t get home that night until 1:30 AM. Needless to say I did not call Joanne to see how she was doing. I figured I’d wait until the next morning but when I read my e-mails Joanne had already responded to the treatment. After having all of that dentistry done she ended up needing only two Ibuprofen that evening. She also said aside from there being NO pain, that the implants were the easiest part of the entire procedue. It was great hearing this especially coming from the lady who helps me place these EVERY day!
Oh, by the way, Joanne and I also saw a full load of patients the SAME afternoon of the morning that I treated her! There are very few if any people I know who could have done what Joanne did, come away SMILING, work another half day and then send me a beautiful e-mail congratulating me on the great job I did and how little discomfort she felt during and right afterwards.
You might be asking, “Who acted as my dental assistant during this whole procedure?” Some of you know that during this past year a young pre-dental student (son of a patient of ours) has been observing some of our dentistry. I told Anthony that helping us out would look good on his dental school application. He jumped at the chance and did remarkably well.
In a few weeks you’ll get to see the new porcelain teeth that my dental lab will create for Joanne. I feel like the “luckiest” dentist in the world having known and worked closely with this AMAZING lady!Your comments are very welcome and have a great day.Dr. Joe

Lumineers and Mini Implant Dentist

Dr. Santelli — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:53:50 +0000

In an attempt to do our part with the ailing economy Dr. Santelli and staff have decided to keep our fees the same as they were in 2008 for the entire year.

Also, for every six (6) porcelain, cosmetic Lumineers that a person has done at our office they will receive one (1) FREE. That’s a savings of $1200!!!