Changing Lives One Smile At A Time

People want to be healthier and feel good about themselves in the world. Dr. Mathew Hookom, D.D.S. truly believes that and sees it every day through the interactions he has with his patients. Dental implants are not just cosmetic in nature, they are essential for many people, and in this book, you'll learn why. They are not for a certain age group, either. People of all ages need dental implants and everyone should experience the dignity of having confidence to look anyone in the eye and talk without worrying about someone focusing in on their mouth instead of their words. And those beautiful smiles...well, we all have one and just like every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings, every time we smile we are giving ourselves and the recipient a gift from the heart.

I wrote this book for you. This book is for anyone who may have dental anxiety for any reason. This includes tens of millions of people across the United States. Conservatively, this includes hundreds of people in Lincroft and thousands in the surrounding communities. I wrote it for young adults who are on their own for the first time and looking for a dental home. I wrote it for parents who may be looking for a family dentist. I wrote it for older adults, whose own children are grown and who haven't been to the dentist in years ... or maybe decades because they took care of their family first and neglected themselves. This book is for anyone who is afraid of the dentist, anyone who cares about someone who has dental anxiety, and anyone who may develop dental anxiety in the future. It's easy to say that you shouldn't be afraid to go to the dentist. In reality, overcoming dental anxiety can be difficult - but it is possible. I know because I've seen it happen time and time again at our practice. I want to show you and your loved ones that you can feel comfortable visiting the dentist as part of your normal hygiene routine for decades to come.

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography, participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are “repaired:” face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status. Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face.

This book offers leaders an approach to systemically affect change and create cultures of excellence where staff work together to change the way they view their work. Based on well-known quality concepts, readers will discover the essential concepts and actions that have the power to transform every system.

Tackling the goal to walk 25,000 miles —the equivalent of the circumference of the planet — one man shares life-changing insights through his personal travel vignettes. Formerly a thrill-seeking journalist, Geoff Dalglish begins his impressive expedition after undergoing a spiritual and ecological awakening at the Findhorn center in Scotland. His deliberate journey from Timbuktu to Antarctica to Hollywood unfolds in vivid and inspiring detail, revealing a wealth of unimaginable experiences while sharing a message about treading lightly on the Earth. From the horrors of bloody civil unrest and death-defying moments at the hands of armed guerilla soldiers to close encounters with the animal kingdom and finding healing balm within spiritual communities, this roller coaster of adventure chronicles a deeper quest for meaning that culminates in the joys of a life lived in simplicity and service.

Pilgrim is a thought-provoking and inspirational true story of transformation as the author awakens to the realisation that Life begins at the end of your comfort zone — and that nothing is impossible when we dare to dream big and take that leap of faith.

This book explores the complex issues surrounding the management of cleft lip and palate in the Developing World, and aims to raise the profile of a condition commonly considered to be of only cosmetic importance in countries where infant and child mortality rates are high. It provides information and guidelines to three groups: those in the Developing World setting up programmes of cleft lip and palate care, and clinicians from developed countries delivering care in that context, as well as clinicians in the Developing World itself. The book is multidisciplinary, demonstrating the role of every member of the team, not just the surgeon, and includes contributions from charity organisations which support these cleft lip and palate programmes. Each area of clinical practice is covered, comparing typical care in developed countries with that in the Developing World, and contains practical suggestions as to how the gap may be narrowed. Management of Cleft Lip and Palate in the Developing World is an important resource for anyone having - or planning to have - a commitment to develop services in that environment and to clinicians in the Developing World faced with large numbers of cleft lip and palate patients and limited resources of materials and manpower.