Returning to work after almost two months!

7016496206 • May 6, 2020

After almost two months of being virtually unemployed we are pleased to finally be back working! Not only are we delighted to get back to helping our patients, our families are ready for us to get out of the house. (My dog however would happily have me stay home indefinitely.)
In the time I've had off i have painted the office, tended to all the gardens and shrubs at my house, and boxed up for goodwill hundreds of items from my children's closets. I have cooked far more than I have in many years to mixed reviews.
I have not missed setting an alarm for 5:30 in the morning, but I did miss my staff and patients. There are only so many conversations you can have with your pet. It is also a step in the right direction that I am wearing something other than jeans and sweatshirts for the first time in months.
  As for starting back to work, i am finding that opening up a dental practice is proving to be more challenging than it was to shut it down. The Ohio State Dental Board and the CDC have recommended many changes in the way we do business, and that means we will be starting back slowly. There are strategies that we will be doing that are nothing like what i've seen in thirty years of being a dentist.
 Today I fought with a tempermental forehead thermometer for thirty minutes before figuring out how to convert celcius into fahrenheit temperatures. Needless to say, the instructions were NOT written by someone who speaks english regularly. With the help of staff, I eventually prevailed. I should have asked one of my children.
 So we look forward to seeing all of you throughout the year, hopefully in happier, safer circumstances.
 Stay Healthy! Dr Menning

One Week Back

By 7016496206 • May 13, 2020
Its been an awfully strange week and a half since we have begun doing dentistry "normally" again. Honestly there doesn't seem much normal about it! Thank goodness for our wonderful staff and our understanding patients. We are having to ask so many different and (frankly) inconvenient things from everyone. Patients are having to wait in their cars and fill in paperwork before coming to the office. My staff is cleaning doorknobs and pens and things like busy bees, all the while wearing the new n95 masks that practically suffocate us. Rest assured, its all worth it. It is far better to overprepare than underprepare. We value your safety as well as our own (and of our loved ones). Hopefully as the summer progresses we can get back to a little more normalcy. In the meantime, stay safe! Dr M