The 2010 Townie Choice Awards

That Time of Year is Here!

The 2010 Townie Choice Awards
We all look forward to this magical time of year, when we dim the lights, stoke the fire, pour ourselves a mug of hot cider, curl up on the couch and, like caffeinated Tasmanian Devils, tear through the pages of the December issue of Dentaltown Magazine to find out which dental companies, products and services were awarded the highly sought-after Townie Choice Awards! It's a time of mirth and whimsy, when we all get together online afterward to debate with friends and colleagues the final results of the most important annual poll in dentistry. Happy holidays, indeed! Yes, friends, welcome to the official 2010 Townie Choice Awards showcase!

Dentists are posed with purchasing decisions on a regular basis (when what you'd rather be doing is dentistry). You can pick up the phone and talk to a few of your dental school buddies to find out what they use. You can scan the message boards of Dentaltown.com to see what dentists are debating. But do you have the time to sift through the facts or the arguments when you need to place your order right now? For seven years, the Townie Choice Awards have cut to the chase and answered the basic root of your purchasing concerns, "What are other dentists using right now?"

After months of tabulating thousands of votes cast by honest-to-goodness, real-world, practicing dentists, we are pleased to present the winners in each of our TCA categories – from Anesthesiology to TMD. As in years past, in some instances, the race to the finish was close; in others, winners were determined by a large margin. You can find the list of runners-up as well as the winners from the past seven years on Dentaltown.com. Thank you for your participation and continued support of Dentaltown!

In some categories the winner was chosen by a landslide, and there were some pretty close calls in others. If you’d like to see how close some of these contests were, check out the list of runners-up on Dentaltown.com. Thanks for voting and continually making the Dentaltown community such a success!

For the first time this year, TCA voters who cast their ballot by August 7, 2010, were eligible for our $500 early-bird drawing. Congratulations to Dr. George Valentine of Middletown, Connecticut, for winning the $500 Early Voter prize! Dr. Valentine began practicing over 37 years ago and has been a member of Dentaltown since 2002.

"I feel that by participating in the Dentaltown surveys and Townie Choice Awards, I can at least, in a small way, return something to an organization (Dentaltown) that I feel offers the premier forum in dentistry for active exchange of professional experiences, ideas, concepts and solutions to the many issues and problems facing dental providers and practices today."

Congratulations To Our $1,000 Winner
Voters of the Townie Choice Awards were automatically entered in a drawing to win $1,000. This year's winner is Dr. Joshua Haremza of Mendon, New York.

Born and raised in New York, Dr. Joshua Haremza graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2005 from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and completed his one-year general practice residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. Dr. Haremza currently practices with 11 staff members and two other doctors in Palmyra, New York, a suburb of Rochester, where he started as an associate in 2006, and purchased 50 percent ownership in January 2008.

He now lives in Mendon, New York with his wife, Joanne, and two Beagles, Banana and Oscar, which many Townies might recognize from his posts on Dentaltown.com.

"I like using Dentaltown because it keeps me up to date on new technologies and advances in dentistry. I refuse to become one of those dentists that is still using technology from 20 years ago and Dentaltown is the best way to make sure of that."

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