Newsletter 11/20/06

Magical Smiles & Motivational Thoughts

A Free Monthly Newsletter For The Friends and Patients of Dallas Laser Dentistry

In This Issue

• American Thanksgiving
• Turkey Tips
• Taking Care of Your Baby's Teeth (and Future Teeth)!
• Don't Lose Your 2006 Dental Insurance Benefits!
• Mom and Dad Can Have Perfect Teeth Too!
• Managing Time & Energy Wisely
• **Age 7** is the Magic Number for an Orthodontic Check-Up
• Holiday Promotion
• Dental X-rays Demystified
• Bits Of Wit And Wisdom
• Tips for Identifying and Preventing TMD
• Do You Suffer From Recurring Headaches?
• Oral Piercing: Is It Worth It?
• Monthly Quiz
• Make a Date with Your Dentist
• With Heartfelt Thanks For your Referrals!
• Bad Breath, Begone!
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe
• Do You Book Your Own Travel Online?

Turkey Tips

A 15 pound turkey feeds about 10 people with a bit leftover for casserole. A 15 pound turkey will hold about 7 cups of stuffing.

Thaw your turkey in the fridge for about 5 hours per pound or in cold water for about 1 hour per pound (make sure to change your water a few times). If you do nothing else right, make sure you get the darn thing defrosted in time!! I'm speaking from experience *blush*.

To prepare your turkey, remove giblets and neck. Rinse turkey inside and out. Dry skin and cavity well. Fill neck and body with stuffing and pin closed with a skewer (if you have one).

If you're the stove top stuffing type, cut some onions and garlic in half, sprinkle with salt, pepper and thyme (or use fresh thyme sprigs) and stuff the turkey with that just to add a bit of flavor (and make yourself feel like you've actually put some effort into the bird).

Place on a rack in a roaster and rub with butter (1/4 to ? cup). Sprinkle on poultry seasoning or thyme and salt and pepper. Cover with roaster lid (if it's big enough) or make a tinfoil lid. Roast in a preheated 325 degree F oven for about 4 hours. Baste every ? hour or so if you're the basting type.

Remove the lid (foil) and roast for another hour or until it's a nice color. A meat thermometer in the thigh should read about 185 degrees F.

Let it stand on a platter for about 15 minutes before you carve.

Turkey Tips

A 15 pound turkey feeds about 10 people with a bit leftover for casserole. A 15 pound turkey will hold about 7 cups of stuffing.

Thaw your turkey in the fridge for about 5 hours per pound or in cold water for about 1 hour per pound (make sure to change your water a few times). If you do nothing else right, make sure you get the darn thing defrosted in time!! I'm speaking from experience *blush*.

To prepare your turkey, remove giblets and neck. Rinse turkey inside and out. Dry skin and cavity well. Fill neck and body with stuffing and pin closed with a skewer (if you have one).

If you're the stove top stuffing type, cut some onions and garlic in half, sprinkle with salt, pepper and thyme (or use fresh thyme sprigs) and stuff the turkey with that just to add a bit of flavor (and make yourself feel like you've actually put some effort into the bird).

Place on a rack in a roaster and rub with butter (1/4 to ? cup). Sprinkle on poultry seasoning or thyme and salt and pepper. Cover with roaster lid (if it's big enough) or make a tinfoil lid. Roast in a preheated 325 degree F oven for about 4 hours. Baste every ? hour or so if you're the basting type.

Remove the lid (foil) and roast for another hour or until it's a nice color. A meat thermometer in the thigh should read about 185 degrees F.

Let it stand on a platter for about 15 minutes before you carve.

Taking Care of Your Baby's Teeth (and Future Teeth)!

Taking Care of Your Baby's Teeth (and Future Teeth)! It's never too early to start caring for your baby's oral health. You can prepare your child for healthy teeth and good habits by starting early and staying positive about the practice of tooth care. Advice for baby's teeth >

Don't Lose Your 2006 Dental Insurance Benefits!

If you have dental insurance, your unused insurance benefits expire on December 31, 2006 - they do not carry over into 2007. So, it's use it or lose it!

If you haven't had a recent professional teeth cleaning, annual exam, or have been diagnosed as needing treatment you haven't yet completed, please call Desiree at 214-556-5251 right away to make sure we can work you into the schedule over the next two months.

Plus, those who need more treatment than their insurance covers in a single year often use this strategy:

• - Schedule part of the work in December to use up 2006 benefits, then
• - Schedule the balance of the work the first week in January using your new 2007 benefits

Don't waste the money you've paid on dental insurance premiums all year - give us a call today!

Mom and Dad Can Have Perfect Teeth Too!

Mom and Dad Can Have Perfect Teeth Too! Thinking of straightening your teeth, Mom and Dad? So are your friends! One in every five people in orthodontic treatment is over eighteen. Why not join the trend? Learn more about your financial options for Invisalign, the invisible way to straighten teeth. On your way to a perfect smile >

Managing Time & Energy Wisely

Wise Stewardship Of Your Life Energy

It seems that fatigue is an ever-increasing, more frequent experience and challenge. You start the week on Monday morning enthused, invigorated, optimistic, motivated to follow-through on goals, plans, to-do lists. Yet as the days progress, all that positive energy dissipates. Where does the energy go?

We are made of energy - mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The choices you make about spending your life energy have outcomes. Your life is financed by the resources you have available to you. You must be conscious of how you spend the energy you have. If you indiscriminately spend your life energy, you may burn out, or be too tired to capitalize on the best opportunities as they come along.

Entrepreneurs and salespeople need to preserve time and energy for themselves. They need quality time to make quality decisions; to create, think, invent and plan; to develop sales, marketing and profit breakthroughs; to network and build relationships. Time is needed to collect and assimilate information, for education and self-renewal, rest, rejuvenation, hobbies, fun, and family. These things cannot survive on left-over time and energy!

Taking control of your time and more carefully spending your energy can be the single biggest step toward extraordinary success you will ever take.

How Much Do You Value Your Time And Energy?

The use or misuse or abuse by others of your time is the single most important factor affecting your life energy. The question to keep front and center is: how can I best use my resources of time and energy to manifest what I want?

Most people let time and energy get away, let other people and circumstances control them. Try thinking about doing the opposite - exercise control to manifest your desires by creating boundaries and having a personal time plan that you live by. Focus on developing and sticking with habits that support your plan.

Here at our practice we try to demonstrate we value your time by committing to seat you for your appointment without the long wait we've all experienced at medical offices - and if we don't, we give you a $50 credit.

The Power Of Quiet, Personal Time

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone," the famous scientist Blaise Pascal observed. In our noisy world, we are bombarded by sound, by loud music, sirens, construction, or other's conversations. When we enter a room, we habitually turn on the television, radio, or computer. Many people preserve no quiet time whatsoever in each day, or even each week.

Spiritual teachers tend to agree that we need to go into silence for wisdom. When you can visit the silent spaces of your mind and turn off the external noise, you are most likely to discover new possibilities and opportunities, new and different solutions to nagging problems. Quiet time can recharge your life energy. I urge you to demand more silence in your life. I urge you to create, to schedule quiet times.

Are you a human being - or a human doing? Our lives have become endless work, non-stop activity. This kind of non-stop 'doing' wears you down and wears you out. Set aside one out of every seven days when you do not do business, and make it a day of relaxation, recreation, quiet time, and time with family. This is not a new idea. There is the tradition of the Sabbath, one day a week set aside as holy, for rest, rehabilitation, prayer, meditation, thought and family - not work. This has been lost to many today. People who used to rest on Saturday or Sunday now spend those days shopping, working around the house, paying bills and conducting business. Don't you think you deserve one day of real rest each week?

Any time is a good time to reconsider your personal time plan! Remember, the question to keep front and center is: how can I best use my resources of time and energy to manifest what I want?

**Age 7** is the Magic Number for an Orthodontic Check-Up

**Age 7** is the Magic Number for an Orthodontic Check-Up Wondering when your child should see an orthodontist? Don't wait until all the permanent teeth have arrived. The American Association of Orthodontists recommends that every child have an orthodontic check-up no later than age seven. Why age seven?

Holiday Promotion

DON'T BE A TURKEY!

With the end of the year fast approaching, we want to make sure you and a friend look your very best while visiting family and friends and enjoying the holiday parties.

To get you one step closer to your dream smile, our dental office is offering the following:

Have your teeth laser whitened and receive a certificate worth 40% off laser whitening for your friend. Both laser treatments must be completed by 12/31/06.

Call Melissa today at 214-556-5251 to schedule your appointment.

Dental X-rays Demystified

Dental X-rays Demystified Getting dental X-rays taken may not sound like your idea of a fun afternoon. However, the information your dentist gathers from your X-rays plays a vital role in helping you avoid future dental problems. Learn how it works

Bits Of Wit And Wisdom

• One of the pleasures of age is looking back on who you didn't marry.
• Maturity is when we change from cocksure ignorance into thougtful uncertainty.
• Loan shark: man who works for the principle of the thing and takes a lot of interest in doing it.
• Love, like experience, is a hard teacher -- she gives the test first and the lesson afterward.
• There's two sides to every question, as long as you're not interested in it.
• Jury: a group of 12 people of average ignorance.
• Many a child is spoiled because you can't spank two grandmothers.
• They call him a magician: he walks down the street and turns into a bar.
• Whenever a man begins to doubt himself he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
• The trouble with a person who has the gift of gab is he never wraps it up.
• Psychologists say no one should keep too much to oneself... the IRS is of the same opinion.
• Wealthy people miss one of life's great thrills - paying the last installment!
• Leisure time is when you spouse can't find you.
• Life is a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes you depends on what you're made of.
• Peeping Tom: a window fan.
• Little boy to a friend: "The way I see it, school is a mouse race to get us ready for the rat race."

Tips for Identifying and Preventing TMD

Tips for Identifying and Preventing TMD TMD, or Temporomandibular Disorder, causes jaw problems for many people without them realizing it! Learn about the symptoms of this painful disorder, and gather tips on how to keep it from happening to you. Keep your jaw happy and healthy

Do You Suffer From Recurring Headaches?

There's now a great way to relieve headache pain from TMJ, tension and migraines!

Neurologists have found that migraine and tension headaches, as well as those from TMJ (which also causes you to grind your teeth), can be effectively treated with BOTOX® in 2 out of 3 cases! Now BOTOX® injections from Dr. Swift can be used therapeutically to relieve recurring headache pain!

In 2004 Dr. Swift underwent training in both the therapeutic and cosmetic use of BOTOX® with Dr. Andy Blumenfeld. Dr. Blumenfeld is an internationally recognized authority on the utilization of Botulinum Toxin Type A for the treatment of headache and has significant experience as a researcher, speaker and national injector trainer. He was Chief of Service for the Department of Neurology at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, and is currently Director of The Headache Center of Southern California. Dr. Blumenfeld is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

To learn if you're a candidate and get more information, please follow the link....
Click here to learn more!

Oral Piercing: Is It Worth It?

Oral Piercing: Is It Worth It? Thinking of getting an oral piercing? Make sure you're aware of the risks associated with introducing jewelry into your mouth before you make your decision. Get the fact

Monthly Quiz

Patient Quiz!

Last Month's Quiz Question!

Pronounced as one letter,

And written with three,

Two letters there are,

And two only in me.

I'm double, I'm single,

I'm black, blue, and gray,

I'm read from both ends,

And the same either way.

What am I?

Answer:

An eye.

This Month's Quiz Question!

What kind of key has legs, but can't open doors?

What am I?

Make a Date with Your Dentist

Make a Date with Your Dentist What can we do for your teeth that your daily brushing and flossing can't? Lots! Find out why it's important to make a regular date with your dentist, and learn what goes into deciding how often is best for your teeth. Treat your teeth right

With Heartfelt Thanks For your Referrals!

With Heartfelt Thanks For your Referrals! There's no question that I have the BEST patients on the entire planet!

My business is built on word of mouth advertising and I would like to thank all of you who were kind enough to recommend our services to your friends.

Thank you soooo much!
Bad Breath, Begone!

Bad Breath, Begone! Do you use more mouthwash than you'd like? Are your pockets always rattling with boxes of breath mints? Instead of continuously trying to cover up bad breath, learn what causes it and how to avoid it. Get the inside scoop

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Do You Book Your Own Travel Online?

Do You Book Your Own Travel Online? Want To Save A Ton of Time Planning a Trip And Find The Lowest Price Available?

As a service to our many patients who travel and use the internet to research the best value and to book their business trips and vacations, we have added to our website technology that can save you time and money. Our website has "PowerSearch™", a proprietary comparative search engine. Simply enter your travel info once, hit search, and it hunts automatically on up to 200 travel related websites and brings back the results in order of price - plus shows you which site has the best deal. Then click on the deal you want and save money! If it's a travel, airline, hotel, cruise, or car rental site - you no longer have to go to each and enter your dates to search and compare - one click does it all!