>> My name is Robert Levine, most people call me Bob.
I'm a periodontist which is a dental specialist which requires a couple years,
three years now after dental school to become one.
I do a lot of interesting things in the office with patients.
We do a lot of nonsurgical but predominantly surgical procedures
that involve bone reconstruction, dental implants, oral plastic surgery.
We do a gamut of surgical invasive, noninvasive procedures and our goal is
to make our patients healthy and happy.
About 80% of what I do is surgeries, implant, dental implant related.
We're-- , we do bone reconstruction in preparation, augmentation of sinuses,
so we do a lot of invasive type of procedures, even lip repositioning,
oral plastic surgical procedures, correction of gummy smiles, a lot of aesthetic procedures,
aesthetic zone, dental implants, same day smiles as we call it, also our patients may have many
or most of their teeth or if not all of their teeth removed in one sitting
and then they'll have implants placed and they have teeth either that day or the next day,
permanent teeth, so every day is busy.
Generally have three dental hygienists.
We have 15 members on our staff approximately.
I work with four to five dental assistants, some office managers,
and the day pretty much is running from room to room.
My procedures generally run between an hour to five hours
so I could have many procedures in a day or just one or two.
The same day smile, actually I was involved
with Temple's first e-campus [inaudible] campus lecture so alumni signed up online
and it was a 20 year retrospective on same day smile or immediate loading
so these are the patients that we really change their lives, their ability to smile,
ability to really gain confidence in themselves again as well as obviously able to chew,
so these are the patients that really, you know, we get immediate gratification from.