Are you wondering if private health insurance is worth it? Or maybe you’ve been in the same health fund for a long time? Often we see clients who wonder how much their private health insurance will pay when discussing a treatment plan. Most of us can agree it’s good to have a portion of our
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Dental Hygiene Technology We’re excited to bring the latest dental hygiene technology to Dr Patrick J Meaney and Associates. Find out how Swiss-Made EMS AIRFLOW® and a Guided Biofilm Therapy treatment can benefit your smile! Our installed EMS AIRFLOW® Prophylaxis Master means that you can now experience stain-free, clean teeth without the pain! No more
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Small Things Can Make a Big Difference Do you have a small tooth repair that nags you—perhaps something no-one else notices (but that you notice?) That’s exactly what Brit said to me this week: Brit is a Moss Vale local and has marvellously healthy gums and lovely white teeth. A few years ago, she’d had
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A few months ago, my optometrist notified me that the time had come for my routine eye examination. Even though I have haven’t ever had any problems with my eyes, I also don’t want to get any problems, and I want to stay healthy, so I made the appointment. All went well, but this time,
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‘Humans are the only animals who have hair, rather than fur’. So said one of my patients today. Sure, she was quoting from an article by Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker, who was herself quoting an anecdote in a book about the subject of hair in general, and, it turned out, also in very
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ONE of my patients today told me about a large Australian telco that had some call centres in the Philippines. Apparently, Filipino’s speech has a lot more of high-frequency tones than we Aussies typically manage to mumble through the flies, and they operate more in the top of the range of thousands of Herz much
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Chatting to a patient last week about the newest concern de jour* **, Vitamin D deficiency, and he pointed out that you can’t make vitamin D by merely standing in the sun, as I had always thought. During certain times of the day, and months of the year, if the sun doesn’t rise high enough,
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I was chatting to one of our patients this week, and she told me a fascinating story about how the modern world works. She wanted a quote for a solar roof panel installation at her home, and at one company she asked, they didn’t want to visit her property to measure up or anything boring
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