Dr. Robert e. Malenius, D.D.S., P.e. & Associate Office Hours: 610 East Roosevelt Road Suite 202 Monday: 9:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. Wheaton, llIinois 60187 Tuesday: 9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. Office: (630) 668-6180 Wednesday: 9:00a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Fax: (630) 668-6441 Tbursday: 9:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. www.maleniusdental.com (One Saturday per Month)

SMILES WITH HOSPITALITY

Happy March and welcome once again to our Smiles With Hospitality newsletter. Looking for your very own pot of gold! You can fmd it here when you refer a new patient to our practice. To show our appreciation, we'll give you a free custom bleaching kit...want to get started on the bleaching at

your recall appointment? Just let us know when making your appointment and we'll do the rest! Spring break so soon? Help your busy college students maintain their oral health. Often cavities and wisdom teeth problems aren't apparent until they cause pain. Avoid those unwanted dental "surprises, give us a call today!

Malenius Kingdom extends a big congratulations to Gene & Betsy Lindner who are celebrating their 30th wedding ~

-,;0 anniversary March 19th ! Great effort 1~

to Shelly Allen who visits the Czech ........---.. Republic in the summer to teach English. This

year she wins the travel award visiting Las Vegas, Mexico & taking a Carribean Cruise! COME ON DOWN!! Ruth Kratksy & husband, Earl, made a trip to California where Ruth went through a long evaluation process for the Price is Right! Got on stage...then ended up missing out by just one prize. "Never again" she reports...the pool is more relaxing! Our local sport's star this month is

Georgina Selenica who scored 14 points in just S::;~Y, ~n Bas~etball game!!! Our d~ama s~ this month >"4[fjh is Chnstopher Speder who JS playmg an

Egyptian, even wearing a turban in his school play Oh Horror! Great effort to our own Ashley McManus who has been spending long hours doing the Choreography for Montini Catholic's High School's musical, Grease. Big news for Tanya Carey who recently published her book, Cello Playing is Easy, Vol. 1 of 5. It includes W 155 photographs. Husband, Gerald, was responsible for the,printing, graphics, layout and designed the logo. What a great team!

Happy Birthday to Pat FuHriede. By the way if husband, Bill, is trying to think of a gift, diamonds are always welcome! Congratulations

to Hannah Heier's new addition...her Lab/Shepherd named Chelby, who is tan, brown and black...and has Hannah's eyes!

Hopefully our patients benefit from our efforts to deliver the best possible dental experience. Whether we are updating equipment that will provide comfort and quality, to attending continuing education at the annual Mid-Winter Dental extravaganza, our goal is to provide good oral and systemic health. Come in and see our changes...Dark age dentistry a thing of the past, thank goodness!

Today•.• We'll not only take your bloodpressure, but updating your health records is now computerized giving us more efficient documentation of your continued oral health status. We utilize digital radiography, which is safer and offers better diagnostics, as well utilizing our intra-oral camera that allows us to show you early tooth concerns or needs. Soft tissue problems? Our soft tissue laser offers excellent results for many uses including periodontal problems and ulcerations. Fixing teeth is now more comfortable and efficient with our hard tissue laser. Quite an improvement over the first electric dental drill that was patented in 1875!

What else has improved in dentistry? Toothache? 2,000 years ago some people believed they could prevent toothaches by washing their teeth with tortoise blood. The ancient Egyptians believed applying a freshly killed mouse would cure an aching tooth. While people from many different cultures believed that tooth pain was caused by a "toothworm." Vagbhata, an Indian surgeon who practiced in 650 A.D. recommended killing toothworms by filling the cavity of an aching tooth with wax, then burning it out with a hot probe. Pliny the Elder, whose 37-volume Natural History served as the basis for scientific knowledge for centuries, believed one could cure a toothache simply by catching a frog under a full moon, prying open the frog's mouth, spitting into it and saying "Frog, go, and take my toothache with thee!"

Home remedies from the Colonial era included chewing cloves, filling the cavity with a piece of garlic, a whole black peppercorn or salt. The Dental Office has seen some changes too! In the Middle Ages, you'd go to your barber for a shave, haircut and tooth extractions. Since barbers performed both hair cutting and surgery, they were called barber-surgeons. In Colonial times...people visited the barber along with wigmakers, and even the silversmith for their dental needs! Several years before Paul Revere announced, "the British are coming!" he studied the practice of dentistry under John Baker, one of the first English-trained dentists in the colonies. Forensic Dentistry also had beginnings with Paul Revere. In 1775 Revere made a bridge for Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon after, Warren, who was a general in the Massachusetts Militia, was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The British buried him in a mass grave. After the British withdrew from Boston, the colonists wanted to give him a proper burial, but the bodies in the grave were too decomposed to recognize. Revere, however, was able to identify Warren's body based on the bridge he made. Dentures...George Washington is known for many important accomplishments, including his false teeth. He endured horrible dental problems throughout his life, suffering from infected and abscessed teeth, and inflamed gums. By the time he was in his 50's, he'd lost most of his teeth. When inaugurated in 1789 as America's first President, he possessed just one tooth. He embarked on a long and often fruitless quest to find a comfortable pair of dentures. A noted denture maker, John Greenwood, made his first dentures, not of the rumored wood, but were made from ivory and human teeth. Portraits of Washington taken at different stages of his life chronicle his ongoing dental problems. In 1757, at 25, still having most of his teeth shows his mouth to be small. In 1796 for the presidential portrait the artist attempted to improve the appearance of his mouth and cheeks by packing cotton inside Washington's mouth to support his lips, causing a puffy appearance! Toothbrushes oIthemaik by Mark Parisih 1 1 www.cffthernark com

ave a so come a ong way... IT WAS 7HAT~£NIGi~Rf! Ancient Egyptians used frayed DROc'ThERE I WAS... rx./NG AGGfD branches for toothbrushes, and in AROOND IN 5a1f ICKY, SMELLY

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neck hairs of the cold climate pigs, later using hog bristles, and in the 15th Century neck hairs of a Siberian wild boar., It wasn't until 1938 that DuPont introduced nylon bristles. People must be

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brushing since $775 million dollars is spent annually by consumers for toothbrushes! Toothpaste didn't have the variety it does today...maybe that is what encouraged the $1.8 billion consumers' spent annually the purchase of toothpaste! The Egyptians, some 5,000 years ago, used a

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crude mixture of wine and pumice. Ancient toothpastes also included powered fruit, talc, honey and dried flowers, as well as mice and lizard livers. The development of toothpaste as we know it today can be traced to 500 B.c. in China and India. Although, one 18th Century recipe called for cinnamon, burnt alum and dragon's blood! The American Dental Association would have stopped the practice, but the ADA program didn't start until 1931! Modem toothpaste in collapsible tubes was introduced in the 1850's. Fluoride wasn't added to toothpaste until 1956. Another additive of interest...From the early Roman Empire until eighteenth-century Europe and America, urine was a main ingredient in toothpaste, because the ammonia in it is an excellent cleaner. Ammonia is still a main ingredient in many types of toothpaste. We are unique mammals! We are not fortunate like sharks that may grow 20,000 teeth in a lifetime. Imagine having to brush twice a day for two minutes if you were a 70-ton sperm whale. It has from 36 to 60 teeth, all in its lower

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jaw. Each tooth can be more than eight inches long. The tusk of the male narwhal, an Arctic whale, is more than eight feet long! One way to tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles is by their teeth. In crocodiles the fourth tooth on each side of the lower jaw projects outside the snout when the mouth is closed. Alligator teeth are conical shaped and made for grabbing and holding prey. If an alligator loses a tooth, it grows back! Unfortunately our teeth don't grow back. ..and brushing isn't enough. Floss. Oh the dreaded "F" word..Floss has been around longer than you think. Actually grooves made by dental floss and toothpicks have been found in the skulls of prehistoric humans and Native Americans! The first modem floss was smooth as silk..because it really was! Initially a New Orleans dentist in the early 1800's recommended that his patients pass a piece of silk threat between their teeth for better cleaning. Johnson & Johnson received the first patent for dental floss in 1898. It was made from the same silk as surgical sutures. Even so only 22% of people use floss, but in 1996 United States consumers purchased close to three million miles of floss. Enough to go to the moon and back six times! Maybe that is because not only do people use floss for their teeth, but uses also include cleanly cut soft foods such as rolled dough and cheesecake, emergency repairs as a sewing aid. Backpackers have used it to fix their tents, jackets and backpacks. Several years ago a prisoner used floss coated with an abrasive toothpaste to saw through the bars of his jail cell and attack another prisoner. And in 1994 an inmate braided floss into a rope to scale a wall and escape. Dental floss can make beautiful music. Frank Zappa's Montana is all about the virtues of moving to Montana "just to raise me up a crop of dental floss! Speaking of the famous••. some popular inventions were made by dentists, and include grape juice, chewing gum, and oh yeah, cotton candy. In 1897 the popular spun-sugar was invented by Dr. William Morrison, a dentist, and John Wharton. They called their treat "Fairy Floss." Don't be behind the times...go on...brush and floss those teeth. Together, we can make your smile shine!

s always, it is our goal as well as our mission statement to "Serve patients as a knowledgeable, fun, and gifted team, inspiring trust while making a difference with our patients

and each other." Fourteenth Ed., MMch, 2007