Family Dental Care Park Ridge

As I was driving in toward the city this morning, I realized that I had forgotten to take my vitamins…yet again.  I mean well…I really do.  I am all about taking good care of myself and my total health.  I try really hard to eat well ( see my true confession about my food habits) but, because I am not “food-healthy reliable”, I take some vitamin supplements.  After talking with my doctor, we decided that my taking a B-Complex, some Vitamin D, some Iron and some Omega-3 supplements would be a wise addition to my healthy lifestyle.  Sounds very simple and straight forward, right?  And yet I forget to take them at least once a week.  Why?  I can’t even begin to answer that because I follow my usual routine, I understand and accept the benefits of taking these supplements and they are right there in my kitchen cabinet.  Crazy.

And then, I had an aha moment.  I realized that I am no different than my hundreds of patients who come to me as if to confession and beg me to forgive them for the fact that they have not been flossing regularly…or brushing twice daily…or wearing their night guard…or… fill in the blank.  You get the picture.  We mean well.  We want to be good to ourselves.  We are not purposely sabotaging our health.  But we forget.  Or we get distracted.  Or life happens.  I get it.  I really do.

And so, I came to a realization on my drive.  We can be really good to ourselves if…we cut ourselves some slack.  When we beat ourselves up for not taking our vitamin supplements or forgetting to floss every day or leaving our night guard out once in a while, we are not being good to ourselves.  So much of our holistic good health and sense of well being is dependent upon us just being good to ourselves.  To be forgiving and compassionate to who we are and to not be so hard on ourselves.  Intellectually, most of us really do know the importance of all of the good medical and dental habits that we should be actively treating ourselves to, but we need to give ourselves a break when life happens and we get momentarily off track.  Sometimes it is more important to give ourselves some compassionate understanding…we’ll get back on track again.  I know I will.  Tomorrow, I will take my vitamin supplements that my doctor suggested but for now, I’m giving myself a guilt free evening.  Life is good.

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Have you noticed that there has been a lot happening at Family Dental Care Park Ridge?  Me too.  Remember that act on the old Ed Sullivan show where the guy comes out and gets a lot of plates spinning all at once and he is able to keep them spinning?  Well, as a child, I was so intrigued by the intensity of that adrenaline rush to keep those plates spinning and now, as an adult, I think of that ability to spin those plates and keep them spinning as a metaphor for life.  Really, isn’t that what we are doing in our daily journey?  Each of us have plates… the number of plates varies, but we all have plates.  And each of us greet each day by getting our plates spinning.  And sometimes our plates stay balanced and sometimes…well, they don’t.  I have to believe that even when the plates come crashing down around us, it’s not always a bad thing.  Sometimes it’s an opportunity for us to get some new plates and set them spinning.

At Family Dental Care Park Ridge, we have a whole new set of plates spinning.  And the balancing act couldn’t be going more smoothly.  We have two amazing dentists who are compassionate, insightful, intelligent and clinically exceptional…Dr. Carolyn Demas and Dr. Matthew Demas.  They bring with them a level of energy and enthusiasm that is contagious and almost palpable.  Each of you who have met them and shared with me your experience have extolled their praises and thanked me for making sure that they would be taken care of very well.  We have a new front office manager, Vivien Koralik.  If you haven’t had the pleasure of speaking with Vivien, please, if for no other reason than to hear her kindness float over the phone line, give her a call.  Vivien aims to make your experience at Family Dental Care Park Ridge as pleasant and as stress free as possible.  She will answer your questions about our flexible hours, our procedures, our insurance affiliates and even how to get to our office.  In the office working with Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Matt, we have Irene and Margaret.  These wonderful assistants make sure that you are comfortable and help Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Matt with your care.  The synergy and energy that moves through our office is the reason that our plates spin so well.   I would love for you to come experience the synergy yourself.

As always, we are on Facebook at Family Dental Care Park Ridge and more recently at Park Ridge DDS as well as on Twitter @ParkRidgeDDS so please follow us.  We truly love to connect with you, answer your questions or just  talk.

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