“Is It Your Turn Yet?”
August 2009

Your Smile At Age 70

Picture your smile at age 70…then picture yourself with what you consider the smile you would LIKE to have at 70. Is there a difference? Before, we thought of a “maturing” smile as one with darker, worn, sealed or even missing teeth. The people that had their smile “fixed”, many times, had unnatural looking teeth.

Our society is changing its perception of how one should look and feel in the “Golden Years”. Look at our vibrant seniors at the YMCA exercising, traveling and “Criss-Cross” socializing with our youth. It is estimated that by the time the “Baby Boomers” could reach age 100, there will be over one million centurions in the USA.

Dentally, it is exciting to see the dramatic changes over the past years in being able to keep our smiles whiter, less worn and more naturally vibrant. In January 1999, a European company released a tooth colored material that is as strong as the metal we now use on crowns. That is a dramatic advance as we now can change those “fake” looking teeth into smiles that nobody could tell wasn’t yours naturally.

Some relatively inexpensive services that dentistry now offers for smiles is “Bleaching” which can be done day or night with a specifically made mouth guard. The results are fast, safe and dramatic.

Do you have “worn places” on your front teeth that look like brown holes in the top of your teeth? With no “numbing” and little costs, we can now “bond” those places and revitalize aged looking teeth instantly.

It’s professionally rewarding to me to now be able to confidently deliver those beautiful smiles. Nothing was more frustrating in the past than for both you and I to work hard to improve the smile, only to fall short of our esthetic goal because the materials available couldn’t fill our expectations.

Your health, your self image, and your vitality is a personal decision. It’s terrific that all the medical fields are working to help YOU to achieve YOUR goals.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.


Written by: Dr. Daniel L. Steinke

"Is It Your Turn Yet?"

July 16, 2009

President's Message - YMCA Annual Meeting

Dear YMCA Family:

I am very pleased to stand before you at this time and look back on an amazing year.

As I stood before you after being elected last year, I set, as my primary goals:

To stabilize the YMCA
To find an outstanding YMCA Director
To encourage outreach of volunteerism in our YMCA so that many hands can make the workload light.
To encourage an outstanding Board to have an enthusiastic vision and execute it.
To eliminate debt that is an albatross around our neck.

I can confidently say the first four goals were accomplished extremely well because of you out there in our ‘Y’ family.

It may have been boring to accomplish everything the first year and so, in my last year, elimination of our debt will be my key focus All of you have exhibited amazing volunteerism and the staff has dealt very well with the many past and current changes that are necessary for the progress of this organization. I mostly want to thank my Executive Committee and Board. If people know me, my management style is to encourage many people to work synergistically together and for me to only get in their way when things aren’t going well or when progress is not being made.

The first few weeks were difficult, but the Board shared a common vision and we got through some very tough times and made some very hard decisions. We did run the ‘Y’ by ourselves for a while and did hire an outstanding Executive Director. The definition of success for me, is to feel that I’m not necessary. I am very pleased, a short one year later, to feel that this organization is running smoothly with very little necessary input from myself.

I would like to specifically thank Vice President Jason Brochu for an amazing job, Bill Rayfield for the incredible hard work in bringing our finances under control and Secretary, Skip McDonald, for stepping in and most importantly, for really being that “push” who organized like minded people to come to last year’s annual meeting with a positive and move forward attitude. Finally, to Erika, for joining us with vision and energy, and reinvigorating our ‘Y’ with positive progress into the future.

Sincerely,
Daniel L. Steinke, President