Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Jimmy the Groundhog bites Sun Prairie mayor
I give the mayor a ton of credit- he kept his composure and continued his address to the crowd after being bitten by the groundhog during his 15 mins of fame for the year.
Luckily it looks like there was little to no damage to the mayor's ear.
Keep smiling!
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Behind the Scenes from TV Shoot
Behind the Scenes from TV Shoot
Enjoy some behind the scenes photos from our television commercial production. See how many different versions of the ad you can see while you watch your favorite shows in Milwaukee.
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Enjoy some behind the scenes photos from our television commercial production. See how many different versions of the ad you can see while you watch your favorite shows in Milwaukee.
Levine Dental
picture perfect smiles
Milwaukee Family and Cosmetic Dentistry
#MilwDDS
Thursday, September 5, 2013
The Tooth Fairy
The tradition when a child looses a tooth of leaving it
under the pillow is practiced in many countries throughout the world. It is
very common in the United States and many parents even make a deal with the
Tooth Fairy to keep their child’s teeth as a memento.
In Europe it is customary that when a child’s sixth tooth
falls out, the parents will often times slip a gift under the child’s pillow.
In Northern Europe a child usually receives a “tooth fee” when they lose their
first tooth. In the United States, a reward being left goes on as long as the
child believes.
More people believe in the existence of the Tooth Fairy than
Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. Most people think the tooth fairy is female
but in reality no one really knows what the tooth fairy looks like though most
people tend to associate it with a Tinker Bell type figure.
There are many related myths in other countries when a child
loses a tooth, such as throwing it onto the roof if it was a lower tooth or
putting it beneath the floor if it was an upper tooth. Many parents also leave
some glitter or “fairy dust” after the tooth fairy has left.
A February 2013 ABC News story said the average left for a
tooth was $2.42. No matter how you want to look at it, it seems the Tooth Fairy
is always near by!
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Basic Dental Insurance Information
If you are lucky
enough to have dental insurance there are several things you should know. The
average person though is not informed enough about the basics of their
insurance.
There are several
basic facts your need to know:
·
Your insurance plan is
a contract between your employer (unless it is strictly a personal plan) and
the insurance company
·
Dental insurance isn’t
true insurance. It was invented 50 years ago to help insurance companies sell
their other plans. Unlike renters/owner, auto, and health which pay out when
you have a problem, dental insurance is preventive in nature
·
Most plans have not
changed in the last 50 years and you still just get about a $1000.00 a year.
Taking into account just basic inflation plans worth $1000.00 fifty years ago
should be worth over $7500.00 today
Unless you work for an
insurance company, you probably do not spend a lot of your time studying all
the terminology that dental insurance companies use to describe the treatments
and services they cover. If it seems pretty confusing, here are some of the
most commonly used dental insurance terms and what they mean.
Basic
Insurance Terms
Annual
Maximum–The maximum amount
your policy will pay per year for dental care.
Co-payment– An amount that you the patient pays at the
time of service.
Covered
Services– A list of all the
treatments, services, and procedures the insurance policy will cover under your
contract arranged between the insurance company and your employer
Deductible– A dollar amount that you must pay out of
pocket each year before the insurance company will pay for any treatments or
procedures
Limitations/Exclusions– A list of all the procedures a dental
insurance policy does not cover
·
Coverage may limit the
timing or frequency of a specific treatment or procedure (only covering a
certain number within a calendar year), or may exclude some treatments
entirely. Knowing the limitations and exclusions of a policy is very important.
Member/Insured/Covered
Person/Beneficiary/Enrollee–
Someone who is eligible to receive benefits under a dental insurance plan
Provider– Any oral health specialist who provides
treatment
Waiting
Period– A specified amount
of time that the patient must be enrolled with an insurance plan before it will
pay for certain treatments.
From Dr. Paul's Cookbook:
Slow Cooker Pepper Steak
INGREDIENTS:
3 pounds beef
sirloin, cut into 2-inch strips
Garlic powder to
taste
4 tablespoons
vegetable oil
2 cube beef bouillon
1/2 cup hot water
1-tablespoon
cornstarch
3/4 cup chopped
onion
2 large green, red
or orange peppers, roughly chopped
1 (14.5 ounce) cans
stewed tomatoes (optional)
5 tablespoons soy
sauce
2 teaspoon white
sugar
5 tablespoons
Worcestershire sauce
1-teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS:
1. Sprinkle strips
of sirloin with garlic powder to taste. In a large skillet over medium
Heat, heat the
vegetable oil and brown the seasoned beef strips. Transfer to a slow
cooker.
2. Mix bouillon cube
with hot water until dissolved, then mix in cornstarch until
dissolved. Pour into
the slow cooker with meat. Stir in onion, green peppers, stewed
tomatoes, soy sauce,
sugar, and salt.
3. Cover, and cook on
High for 3 to 4 hours or on Low for 6 to 8 hours.
Hey Doc, Just pull em all!
I’m sure we
have all thought about doing this at one point or another. Skipping the hum
drum of having to brush and floss daily?
NOT TRUE, not true at all!
Teeth should
only be removed when they are not restorable. Sometimes someone needs to have a
tooth removed as it is infected and financially they cannot afford restoring it
with something like a root canal. As
teeth are removed, we lose bone in that area over time. The bone is what helps keep a denture or
partial denture in place.
Instead of having to brush and floss your
teeth, you will have to keep cleaning out the sticky/gooey unavoidable denture
paste, as well as dealing with them falling out while you talk/eat or deal with
food getting stuck under them. The worst
part of having denturesis that you don’t chew as well, taste your food as well
or speak as well.
Even if we
can just save one tooth in each quadrant in our mouth, you would be better off as
a partial would have something to hang on to. Pulling that first tooth can
create a domino effect. People think it wasn’t bad to have that one out and
heck we can do it again. Pretty soon, it affects everything you do, smile, eat,
and talk
Saving your
teeth is always the best option, it truly is your smile then.
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