Love and Orthodontics - Love & Orthodontics

Get Well, Stay Well. First Steps...

4/21/2025

For most of us, as we live day to day,
we have so very many dreams for our future.

And then, if serious illness comes to us,
we have only one dream - to get well.

Let’s put everything we can into getting and staying well...
and dream for the future we have with our loved ones.

Love,

Eat Healthfully for Your Children

8/3/2020

Claude and I were in Sam’s Club the other day and saw a boy, about 10 years old, and his mom. The boy, sniffing and wheezing, looked longingly at the end-cap display of candies.
He asked mom to buy them. She said yes. The genuine smile of happiness on the boy’s face was huge. He felt happy.

Thinking to myself of the labeled many ingredients like refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup, that his happiness was unknowingly about ingredients that, for him, were toxic.

Let us be a model for our children.

Let us teach them through our food choices, and reading labels, to avoid poison in our foods. And that will keep us healthier for longer, for our children - and keep them healthier, too.

Share the Love. Be the Light.

6/1/2020

What started out as a routine visit to Sam's Club turned into a great sharing of life and love with someone I met there.

How to best use your 'down time'

9/4/2019

How can you best use your down time to truly relax and renew?
Is your down time a dose of sanity or a mind-numbing escape? Here are some ideas...

The Beauty Factor in Dentistry

5/15/2019

It is important for the dentist to understand that beauty is a high priority -- often the highest priority -- for the patient.

Leaving on a jet plane... to Abu Dhabi

1/17/2019

I'll be leaving on a jet plane.

It's been a great experience, being a Texas girl who practices orthodontics in beautiful Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. What's it like commuting 8,000 miles to work? What have I learned? Has this experience changed my worldview?

What Does It Take to be a Great Dentist?

12/6/2018

Are you a dentist? Do you know what it takes to be a really GREAT dentist?
Is it having excellent skills? Better equipment? A super income?

The answer -- and the secret to professional satisfaction -- might surprise you.

Making Those Tiny Little Decisions

8/28/2018

Making the right, simple, tiny little decisions will greatly improve your life. This is true, whether you're a dentist, or in any other business or profession.

Foundations of Success in Dental Practice and Life

6/8/2018

There are some important "blocks" to use when you build the foundations of both your dental practice and your life. The quality of those building blocks will determine the quality of what's built upon them.

Start Spending Time with the Right People

6/4/2018

Who in the world are the right people? The ones who build you up, who challenge you, who believe you CAN do the good stuff.

Who in the world are the right people?

The ones who build you up, who challenge you, who believe you CAN do the good stuff.

“You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with.”
~ Jim Rohn

If they are negative, you will be surrounded and enmeshed in negativity.

If they are positive and happy, you will find it easy to be positive and happy.

If their lives revolve around eating, sleeping, partying, random entertainment, social media and generally getting by, you will find yourself involved in gossip, complaining, unhappiness, and boredom.

Love, living with purpose, being healthy, and constant and never-ending improvement will be difficult to explore or even broach with those folks - and even more difficult to do.

Your future will be shaped by your level of consciousness and the energies of the people around you.

Who do you want to become?
Who do you spend time with?
Do they match what you want to become?

Surround yourself with people who hold you to a higher standard than you hold yourself.

Choose your people wisely. Spend your time wisely. Go for your gusto!!

Love,