Business Briefs
11/28/2005
SoundBridge Center for Dental Arts in Gig Harbor collected 150 pounds of Halloween candy for personnel at McChord Air Force Base. The Candy Buy-Back program, initiated this year, offered kids $2 per pound for their Halloween candy.
Business Examiner
10/18/2005
Gig Harbor residents don′t have to be afraid of the dentist anymore, says SoundBridge Center for Dental Arts co-founder Joeseph Simpson III. SoundBridge recently opened as the Kitsap peninsula′s newest dental domo, offering dozend of ways to brighten up a smile.
Located in the new Park Plaza Building in downtown Gig Harbor, SoundBridge will offer traditional dental care and a host of smile-polishing procedures such as cosmetic, porcelain and implant restorations, in a posh, modern, completely-digital facility.
Dental team Karla M. Bloomquist and Joseph Simpson III have crafted their aesthetic and equipment rosters in such a way that is sure to impress Gig Harbor′s growing upper-middle class community. Patients will be able to relax providing convenient, relaxing, and highly personalized dental care.
"How do you personalize a filling?" you ask.
"We emphasize specific treatments for every patient," says Simpson. "We take a systematic approach, which includes a comprehensive exam and personalized treatment plan. But we also try to help the patient make the best decision, while trying to emphasize patients′ wants and needs."
Both Simpson and partner Bloomquist come from what Simpson describes as a "conservative" dental school that emphasizes saving as much of the original tooth structure as possible, rather than dive in with synthetic replacements such as porcelain crowns and caps. The dental team has a shelf full of accolades between them, including the International School of Dentists Award, the American Dental Society of Anesthesiologists Award, and the Dr. Stanley J. Honsa Award. Both Dr. Bloomquist and Dr. Simpson are honorary members of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Society, which recognizes the top 5 percent of dentists in the country. Dr. Bloomquist is also the recipient of the American Association of Women Dentists Award.
Patients may want to give the pair an award for technology such as silent, electric drills, which eliminate the terrible high-piched whine that haunts dental patients nationwide.
"Traditional air-driven handpieces are a thing of the past," says Simpson.
Aside from eliminating that terrible noise, electric drills used at Soundbridge allow doctors to craft modern ceramic and composite materials more precisely, which ultimately increases their longevity. This instrument offers up to five times the power of a typical air handpiece which translates into faster and smoother work. Unlike the air driven handpiece, there is no need to use multiple sweeping motions that cause tired hands and generate heat on the teeth. Less stress on the teeth means more efficiency and less trauma to the nerve tissue, for example.
Another laser-based detection technology allows Simpson and his collegue to find so-called hidden caries, a widespread phenomenon associated with the pervasive use of fluoride, which can make the tooth′s enamel so good that decay progresses undetected under a tooth that looks fine on the surface. "Because 80% of cavities occur in the chewing surfaces of the teeth, decay can remain virtually undetected with traditional diagnostic methods until significantly developed," says Simpson.
To detect this hard-to-find phenomenon, a diagnostic toll known as the Diagnodent scans tooth structure with a harmless one-millowatt laser light, detecting sub surface decay in pits and fissures in the tooth.
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Dr. Karla M Bloomquist DDS - Providing services in cosmetic and restorative dentistry; including teeth whitening and porcelain veneers to communities of Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, Bremerton and Tacoma, Washington.
Ph: (253) 857-4114 | Fx: (253) 857-4119
2727 Hollycroft, Suite 280 West Gig Harbor, WA 98335
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