New dentist joins the staff at Pine Island Riverdale Dental
Doctor Emerson J Boogaard, DMD, has been a dentist for five years. He said the reason he pursued dentistry to begin with was because his wife needed some moderately extensive dental work done, which exposed him to many practical dental exercises.
“At the time I was looking for a new career path and it inspired me to want to do it. I went back to school for a couple of years and got the pre-requisites that I needed and got into dental school the first time I tried so it ended up working out,” Boogaard said.
He recently joined the staff at Pine Island Riverdale Dental.
Boogaard said currently he is able to offer full service, with the exception of implants, and feels he can serve the Pine Island community with whatever is needed.
According to Boogaard, the importance of guarding against tooth decay cannot be underestimated.
“If we have patients developing a lot of decay in different teeth, there is usually a cause and there’s two different ways to go about it,” Boogaard said.
He went on to explain that one way to fight this decay is to make sure you have frequent fluoride exposures such as brushing daily with a fluoride toothpaste, as well as using a mouth rinse with fluoride. The main priority, he said, is making sure the PH level of the mouth is high.
“You don’t want to go into the acidic range, you want to keep the basic range,” Boogaard said.
Additionally, it is possible to purchase bottled water, he said, with intentionally higher PH levels.
To future patients, he said he’d like to serve them to the best of his ability.
“Give me a chance to show that I’m an ethical dentist, concerned with overall health and well-being who will always treat patients with dignity and respect and never as simply a source of revenue. I don’t like to be treated that way and I will not treat my patients that way,” Boogaard said.
Riverdale Dental Associates is at 10484 Stringfellow Road, #3, St. James City, FL 33956.
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