Love & Orthodontics
Love & Orthodontics
Dr Chris Baker is a pediatric dentist, faculty member of three dental schools, longtime AAPD member and American Orthodontic Society Past President. She practices in Texas. Dr Chris writes about orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and life.
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When Your Patients' Parents Don't Give a Rip
Let Me Ask You -- Should You Treat Their Kids?   How and When?         As a young dentist, I remember feeling the exhilaration of the possibilities of helping children. Therein lies worth to a young mother and to a young dentist, imprinted with the passion for helping children.   After all,...  Read More
Dentists: Your Success Is All About Love
Practicing dentistry successfully and joyfully, every day, involves love. The systems you put into place can help make this happen. With the upcoming ELEMENTS Seminars, dentists can learn to combine the two.   Read More
Doctor, are you in pain?
Pain: a distressing feeling caused by intense or damaging stimuli.   What stimuli, you ask? Perhaps these: * Trying to Survive * Being in the crosshairs of    - the insurance companies -Insurance has become overwhelming to impossible    - Medicaid administration and paperwork    - other dentists...  Read More
Dentists Under Siege?  (Part 1)
It’s so easy as a dentist today, to feel as if you are nobody. The insurance companies, including government’s Medicaid and Medicare companies, are good at teaching people that they CARE about the people who pay them premiums. And that if the care you recommend isn’t covered, it isn’t medically...  Read More
Combining Love and Orthodontics Makes for a Joyful Practice
Video shot at the Advanced American Dental Clinic in Abu Dhabi, UAE.   Dr Chris Baker explains why a sincere love for patients and their families combines well with orthodontics for having a happy and successful practice.    Read More
I am not my staff's parent!  (The affliction of approval addiction.)
Boy!  Dental school didn’t give me any direction on being responsible for employees, staffing, HR, hiring and firing!  How about you? Maybe dental school taught you how to work with a chair-side dental assistant.  Maybe. Maybe dental school gave you some direction on training a chair-side...  Read More
The Great Distress: Ectopic Teeth in a Smile and in Orthodontics
For a patient whose teeth are ectopic - out of place - it is distressing.      A child will often say, “I don’t like my fangs.”  And, if the teeth do not show up, are ectopic and unerupted, it is distressing to have spaces in your smile. It is also distressing for you, wanting to be efficient and...  Read More
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