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Can You Afford The High Costs Of Gum Disease?

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

The symptoms of gingivitis and periodontitis (periodontal disease) are often painless but the cost to you as a patient might be greater than you think. Just as certain medical conditions can increase ones’ susceptibility to ...

Sleep Apnea and the Dentist

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

If you don’t know what sleep apnea is then I guess the title of this blog sounds like a new TV sitcom. But trust me, as I learned last weekend, sleep apnea and the dentist ...

I Got Mine Twice This Week

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

There is a very interesting woman out there named Fran Pangakis. She is one of the minds behind CareerFusion and I was lucky enough to spend some time with her at the annual meeting earlier ...

Long May You Run

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

I knew what I wanted to write about today, but I had no idea of what I wanted to title it. I turned on the computer and put on Neil Young on Pandora and guess ...

What Do I Have in Common With 90 Women? Or What Am I Now the World’s Leading Dental Expert In?

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

Pretty suspicious title, if you weren’t me last week. I have had this gut feeling in my stomach over the last several years that there was something else that I wanted to do with my ...

Service is Not Dead in Los Angeles

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

Well, it seems like another year has just slipped by. So much has gone on in the world over the last year that sometimes it just seems overwhelming, at least that is how I feel. ...

What’s Your Measuring Stick?

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

Several years ago I had an interesting conversation with a patient of mine. This woman had been a patient for a long time and we knew about each other’s lives pretty well. She confided to ...

It’s not over until it’s over or maybe next year Texas Ranger fans

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

"It’s not over until it’s over" is attributed to the great Yogi Berra, a baseball legend, but it really took on new meaning for the St. Louis Cardinals this year, the 2011 World Series Champions. ...

It’s all in how you play the game

By Jon Engel · 12 years ago

Risk and Reward are a very functional part of how you play the game. Last night I was watching my son’s high school team play football. If I had kept track I would have guessed ...

If You Have a Friend on Whom You Think You Can Rely On You Are a Lucky Man

By Jon Engel · 13 years ago

These are the opening lyrics of a song written by Alan Price (of the Animals) called O Lucky Man. The Bay area band Montrose did a cover of this song and in college I would ...

Soda Was All Over the News

By Jon Engel · 13 years ago

Maybe because it is close to the end of summer, maybe it was just coincidence, but there were several different articles I saw on the internet this week regarding the consumption of soda in the ...

Talk About Getting Your Battery Charged Twice in Three Days

By Jon Engel · 13 years ago

I know it is hard to believe but I actually had my battery jumped twice this week. Let me explain this to you. Wednesday night a dear friend of mine took my wife and me ...

What Makes You Happy?

By Jon Engel · 13 years ago

Ok, I admit it, at times I feel like I am in the midst of a midlife crisis. Not really a crisis, I am not rushing to do anything radical. I guess a better way ...

Carmageddon; it didn’t happen

By Jon Engel · 13 years ago

By now just about everyone knows that the feared traffic nightmares of Los Angeles did not materialize because the city did such a good job of warning people of the great consequences they might have ...