Yesterday, our office team was honored to attend the marriage  of  Dr. David Rosenfeld to Karen Redler.  The joy we all felt for the newlyweds was overwhelming.  Beyond that, however I couldn’t help but reflect on all that our team has experienced together. I am privileged to have worked with six of our team members for over twenty years, two others for more than ten, and the others for over five. Since we opened our office in 1979, we have shared the births of our children, their bar and bat mitzvahs, their baptisms, communions, college graduations and their weddings.  We have shared each others’ misery as we lost parents and spouses.  Yet without this shared experience we would be just another dental office.  It is specifically because we have shared so much over the past 32 years that we are more of a family than a staff. Our love for each other enables us not only to provide dental diagnoses and therapies for our patients but a place for all of our patients to feel safe and cared for. As our patient you become part of our family. We look forward to sharing our lives, our kindness, and our commitment to  excellence.

Once again, congratulations to Dr. Rosenfeld and Karen.

While the American sporting world pays tribute to George Steinbrenner today, following his unfortunate passing yesterday, I, tonight will commemorate the 14th anniversary of my own father’s death. I have been privileged to have some of  dentistry’s great minds as my mentors. Dr. Walter Loesche, Dr. Paul Keyes, and Dr. Dan Watt  have all inspired me, trained me, and supported me as our office implemented our microscopic monitoring based, non surgical periodontal therapy (gum treatment) program.  Some thirty years later we have saved thousands of teeth deemed hopeless by surgically trained periodontists. More importantly, we have given our patients the greatest gift a doctor can give…the ability to care for themselves.

Later posts will deal with some of my other mentors and the impact they have had on our practice, but the time has come to thank and memorialize my greatest mentor of all…my father, Sidney Resnick, may he rest in eternal peace. My dad was not a dentist nor a doctor. He never went to college. He sold ladies handbags and did it well. What he did best, however, was to teach his children dedication, loyalty, compassion, dignity, honesty, and the value of humor. For those of you who were over touched by the human values that have been woven into our practice…thank Sid.  I offer my deepest apologies to  those of you who we we may have failed to touch with his values and to his loving memory for not having done so.

Steven Resnick, DDS, FAES

Welcome to our new blog. I will be using this space to inform our patients and the entire web community about exciting new concepts in dentistry and oral care. I invite you all to visit our blog on a regular basis.

I dedicate our first blog two groups of people, our team and our loyal patients. Our team is, in my humble opinion, is the finest, most well trained group of health  care and service providers in our state. They are all totally dedicated to our mission of excellence. Four of our team have been with us for over 20 years!! Our hygienists are uniquely trained to serve as co diagnosticians and therapists as we treat periodontal disease in an anti infective, non surgical manner. Our assistants are certified and are skilled in all phases of contemporary dentistry and patient care. Our reception and office staff are always complemented by our patients for their professionalism and kindness.

I will close this first entry by thanking our loyal patients, many of whom we have been helping for over 30 years, for their support. We appreciate their desire to achieve the healthy beautiful smiles we dedicate ourselves to and are so pleased that they choose to refer so many of their close friends and family. My team and our patients make my professional life so gratifying.  Thanks so much.