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Thought Leader Profiles
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Cosmetic/Aesthetic Dentistry
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Martin Goldstein, DMD |
Education
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Experience
- General Practice with a focus on cosmetics
- Founder: The Comfort Zone Cosmetics lecture series
- Waterbury Hospital GPR affiliated with Yale Univeristy
- Contributing Editor to Dentistry Today, Parkell Today, and numerous publications
- Recognized authority on digital dental photography
- Fellow: International Academy of Dento-Facial Esthetics
- Member: Academy of General Dentistry/husband for 35 years and father of two "grown and out of the house" children
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Personal Questions
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Describe the day your practice opened.
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I purchased an ongoing practice. This made it easy. I just walked into a scheduled day. BUT...I did have the pleasure of hanging out a shingle as well as the trial of making do with equipment that had been designed for stand up dentistry. I DID buy a new "Chayes Virginia" chair. (remember those?) And I DID replace that Xray unit that had the black cone on it.
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If your most used dental instrument could talk what would it tell you?
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"Enough already...enough...."
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What would you do if you weren't a dental professional?
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I would likely teach....it seems to be a high for me. If, magically I could pick any profession...I'd choose to be an entertainer that played good piano or guitar and sang.....ala Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen. I think I'd enjoy seeing those filled stadiums and fat pay checks.
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What music is playing in your car?
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That would depend upon my mood. In the car I bounce back and forth between 60's and 70's rock on Sirius Radio while in the office, Rhapsody's online music service allows my patients to pick what they want to hear. These days, to my horror, I find myself leaning towards "new country". Who ever would have thunk it?
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What is your favorite outside of the office activity?
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Teaching other dentists what I know.
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What is your most memorable case as a practitioner?
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That's a tough one. But I'd have to point to a direct bonded veneer case on a thirteen year old boy that had a disfigured smile. I recall his mother crying at case completion. (yes...it was happy tears) That one has stuck with me.
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What is your favorite tooth and why?
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I suppose I'm a central incisor kind of guy. I consider it a person's signature tooth. All the rest fall in line behind it to some degree.
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If you were stranded on a desert island and could only take one Hu-Friedy instrument, what would it be and why?
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That's not fair. I'd need two! They'd be my what'd ya call it flexi-thin plastic instruments with which I shape composite. You know...the one's with the black, non-stick coating that are razor thin. Let me take those!
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What had been your shining moment in dentistry?
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OK...that one's easy. It was getting a full cover head shot on the May, 2006 edition of Dentistry Today. Felt like I had been placed on the cover of the Rolling Stone...only dental!! It was a rush.
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If you could be reincarnated into anything, what would it be?
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I'd come back as me. So far it has worked!.
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