Spring Lake Dental Group

The Benefits of Fluoride

Why Spring Lake Dental Group Recommends Flouride for Lifelong Oral Health Written by Angela Blake, RDH (Angela Blake is part of the dedicated team at Spring Lake Dental Group where we treat every patient like family. Angela is passionate about educating patients on preventive dental care and helping them achieve healthy, confident smiles.) Recently, several […]

Sports Guards

Author: Dr. Alison V. Berger, DMD, FAGD I hope you all are enjoying your summer days so far, and everyone in your family is having a fun summer break! This month we will be addressing the importance of wearing a sports guard while engaging in contact sports, such as basketball, football, soccer, boxing, martial arts, […]

Welcome Office Manager, Becky Spell

Author: Dr. David Dickerhoff, DDS, MAGD, FOCOI I am excited to welcome the new office manager of Spring Lake Dental Group, Rebecca (Becky) Spell. Becky is a native of Fayetteville and attended Campbell University. She began her career in dentistry as a dental assistant to a dearly missed general dentist, Dr. P.W. Jessup. She eventually left […]

Juneteenth-June 19, 1865

Author: Kimberly N. Powell, DDS, MS, FAGD Have you ever heard the term “Watch Service”?  In my family and many others, we go to church on New Year’s Eve to watch the old year go out and the new year come in, “Watch Service”.  However, the first Watch Service or “Freedom’s Eve” was January 1, […]

Caveat Emptor-The Dilemma of Direct-To-Consumer Aligners

Author: Dr. David Dickerhoff, DDS, MAGD, FOCOI In the May 2024 edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA 155(5)), there is an editorial that caught my attention this month. The direct-to-consumer aligner industry represents a paradigm shift in orthodontic care delivery. These companies offer clear dental aligners directly to patients, typically bypassing the […]

Warranty

Author: Kimberly N. Powell, DDS, MS, FAGD My washing machine has a 10 year warranty. I’m sure this is consistent with other household appliances like dishwashers, refrigerators, furnaces, etc.  Vehicles have such warranties, approximately 12 years, but their overall function as with other things is dependent on maintenance and wear and tear.  What a wonderful […]

Conscious Sedation

Author: Dr. Alison V. Berger, DMD, FAGD Here at Spring Lake Dental Group, we understand that the dental office is not a favorite hang out place for a lot of people. That is the reason why we offer different options of anxiolytics to our patients who suffer from dental anxiety. Anxiolysis is the decrease of […]

Spring Cleaning!

Author: Dr. Alison V. Berger, DMD, FAGD Yay, spring is here! All beautiful flowers around and trees getting their green back. Perfect time to get your garden going and deep clean the house. Talking about deep clean, and as Dr. Dickerhoff recognized our hygienists last week, we just celebrated them and their importance as our […]

Registered Dental Hygienists Appreciation Week

Author: Dr. David Dickerhoff, DDS, MAGD, FOCOI This week, I need to brag on the ladies working in our dental practice who have a RDH diploma. You are probably not aware of the wide array of skills they have mastered as well as performing routine dental cleanings. I am not sure that is the right way […]

Women in Dentistry

Author: Kimberly N. Powell, DDS, MS, FAGD Breaking Barriers: A Historical Journey of Women in Dentistry was an article posted in a recent edition of AGD Impact. The article highlighted the winding path of women entering into the dental profession. This story spans centuries. The first dental license obtained by a woman to practice dentistry […]