Happy Holidays!!

Here's hoping everyone has a healthy, happy and prosperous 2010. We'll be in Cincinnati for the first time in 28 years. This is way too cold for me-- time to think about vacationing somewhere warm. Like cruising the Caribbean or Mexico. Happy New Year!!

Oral cancer screening with Velscope

Sometimes I am a little slow in deciding to make an important purchase, but once I do it - I move ahead with it full blast. We finally received our velscope- a non invasive very effective adjunct to our oral cancer screening exam. The scope helps us visualize potentialy cancerous lesions in the mouth using flouresence technology.-- There are no liquids to swish and nothing except the high intensity light from the light source enters your mouth. We can detect lesions that are imperceptible by traditional visual examination. Oral cancer is deadly if not detected early . One of the causes of oral cancer is the HPV virus which women already know as the virus that can cause cervical cancer. In fact, the incidence of oral cancer is now greater than cervical cancer. This tool is very effective at detecting oral lesions and we are recommending that patient get this exam one time per year.

Happy Holidays!!

Sometimes you have good weeks all the way around. We celebrated Hannukah with my daughter , son- in- law and grandson, Elliott. Grandchildren are the best! Lots of smiles as he received his gifts. In the same week, my son Alex was accepted to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He was so excited- This was the best gift he could have received. And my wife really liked the gift I got her- and I picked it out without her guidance- Sometimes you just get lucky. Anyway-- Happy Holidays to everyone!!

Lumineers in Las Vegas

My staff and I went to Vegas to take a 2 day lumineers course- we saw the latest and greatest in innovations from Denmat corporation. We have had terrific success with their newest innovation- the Lumitray.- It is a technique that allows us to utilize ultra-thin strong veneers that are cemented in place using a tray to position the the veneers and seat up to 8 of them at one time - in minutes!! The results have been excellent and our patients love them. Visit our fan page on facebook and see testimonials about our office. Better yet- visit our newly redesigned website at drgibberman.com.