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Okay, when you think of teeth, green is not a color that pops into mind! Nor does dentistry seem like an area that can be particularly environmentally conscious. But here at Powell and Tiller Dental Care, keeping up with the latest in technology is helping our planet as well as our patients.

Digital X-rays not only provide excellent diagnostic value, they are also quite environmentally friendly. Developing X-rays required the use of chemicals which we had to dump and change daily. The films themselves eventually end up in landfills as did all the bottles that all our chemicals came in, not to mention the fuels used to get all the films and chemicals to our office. Now, we just scan in films and create virtually no waste. Not only that, if you need your X-rays transferred to a specialist or due to a move, we just email them. No materials for duplication and no fuels for shipping.

Another great technological advancement that has allowed us to be more green is our digital impressions. Most offices use thousands of plastic trays and pounds of impression material per year which all end up in landfills. Our 3-D digital impressions eliminate that waste. Our patients love them because they don't have to gag on a mouthful of goop, but instead just have a few pictures taken with a special scanner. We love them because they exceed the accuracy we could ever achieve with traditional impressions. Our planet loves them because we don't add all that waste to landfills and once again, to send them, we just hit "send" and no carbon emissions in cyberspace to get them to the lab.

We are committed to keeping up with technology. It turns out it provides more than just optimal dentistry. It can be one more way that we can go green!

Monday, November 2, 2009, is the date of our Annual Halloween Candy Swap.

On the first working day after Halloween each year, kids 10 and under can bring in their candy to our office and trade it for cash! We will pay them $2 per pound of Halloween candy that they are willing to part with. We also give $5 per pound of candy received to the Capital Area Food Bank so that they can buy and deliver healthy food to kids of Central Texas. We actually usually collect over a hundred pounds of candy from children and in turn, donate over $600 to the Food Bank!

Every year at this time, our youngest patients receive a letter from the tooth fairy telling them that we handle this collection for her since she works nights and is not available during normal waking hours! She says she is always happy to invest in tooth futures.

So this year, have your little one trade in that sugar for cash, and we can donate more money than ever to the Capital Area Food Bank. We would much rather fill tummies than teeth!

Hope to see you on November 2!

Seeing no hands up, let us tell you about the latest technological advancement we've added: Digital Impressions. No goop, no gagging, no dripping, or drooling, just a few clicks of the camera! The iTero scanner takes 3D images and gives us all the information we need to fabricate your crowns, bridges, onlays, or veneers.

It only takes a minute or two to take all of the images. It is more comfortable for our patients and it far exceeds the accuracy we were able to acheive with traditional impressions. It also gets your restoration back from the lab quicker as all we do is click "send" and iTero has received your information. No snail mail here!

Welcome to the cosmetic dentistry blog for Powell & Tiller.