Haiti Earthquake Dental Fundraiser – January 30 & February 6

January 19, 2010 by ·

Haiti Earthquake Dental Fundraiser

Date: Saturday January 30 & February 6, 2010, 8 am to 5 pm

Call the office at  586. 247. 3500 to sign up in your block of time.

Location: 15055 22 Mile #2 Shelby Twp. MI 48315

Whom: Robert V. Antolak DDS and Gregory S. Apsey DDS

Contact: (586)247-3500 or to stay abreast of this event please become a friend of Dr. Antolak’s Facebook fan page clicking on the Facebook icon on the right.

Details: A fund raiser for those people who need dental services and who desire to help the earthquake victims in Haiti.

Dr. Antolak was planning to leave for Haiti on January 21, along with 23 members of Faith Lutheran Church in Troy and members of other area churches, to share the love of Jesus Christ through a soccer clinic, working with an orphanage, and performing dentistry to over 250 people who don’t have access to dental care.

Unfortunately, the trip had to be cancelled because of the Haiti earthquake.  This would have been Dr. Antolak’s ninth visit to Les Cayes, Haiti on the southwest coast of the country.  Fortunately the dental clinic and church, where he has served for 8 years, sustained only minor damage. However, Faith Lutheran Church has been working alongside the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) for the last nine years and the ELCH church was completely destroyed in the quake. The ELCH church will not receive any aide from outside public sources to rebuild except through direct private fundraising donations.

In response to the Haiti disaster, Dr. Antolak and his long time friend, Dr. Apsey of Warren, along with several other volunteer assistants, will be offering dental services to local residents who need dental care and at the same time, would like to help the earthquake victims. Services offered will be: Cleanings, x-rays, fillings, extractions, root canals, crowns and bridges and other general dental services.

Donation checks will be made to Faith Lutheran Church and are considered tax deductible.  Those contributing will receive receipts from the church. The suggested donation for services will be based on Dr. Antolak’s normal fee schedule.   “I can personally guarantee that 100% of the funds raised will go to where they are supposed to go. I have been serving in Haiti for nine years and know the pastors there personally and communicate with them on a regular basis.”  Antolak said.

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Laughing gas or nitrous oxide makes dental procedures comfortable, allowing time to fly by in the chair

November 4, 2009 by ·


At TheGentleDentist.com in Shelby Twp. Michigan we are very focused on our patient’s comfort that we provide both nitrous oxide and oral sedation.  Nitrous oxide or “laughing gas” is an inhallation treatment that requires the patient to breathe into a mask that has a mixture of Nitrous oxide and Oxygen.  This give a euphoria feeling that makes  the procedure giving the name relaxing dentistry a reality  Dental procedures especially root canals have a bad reputation for being painful and taking a long time.  Dr. Antolak will not allow them to hurt and has a number of techniques to numb patients up so there is no pain involved during the procedure.  Best of all with the nitrous oxide use the procedure goes very fast and allows the patient to relax.  This video shows our patient who never had the gas to relax using head phones to just tune out and allow the 80 minute appointment to feel like a 10 minute appointment. For a consultation phone us at 586.247.3500.

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sedation dentistry-The solution for the scared and nervous patient.

September 28, 2009 by ·

At www.TheGentleDentist.com  we provide all phases of dentistry including cosmetic dentistry, dental implants and general dentistry for the entire family.  What is necessary with all our treatments is to get the potential patient into the chair.  This may seem obvious, but I can tell you of many who have avoided the dentist because of their intense fear of the dentist.  This fear is typically generated as a young child who had no say so on their care.  The dentist usually hurt them and they just had to endure the pain no matter how intense it was.  Being a child or even as an adult these patients were at the mercy of someone they feared.   After this horrible experience they make an agreement with themselves that they will NEVER, NEVER put themselves in this postion again.   After many years of internally battling with themselves to go to the dentist a situation will present such as a bad toothache or a broken front tooth  and they have no choice but to see the dentist.  And that is when we or other modern caring dentists come into play:

At our office we truly understand these fears and work at a pace appropriate to our patient to create a positive experience.Oral conscious sedation is a great way to have hours of dentistry done in one visit.   With the use of a small sleeping pill taken 1 hour before your dental appointment you will have virtually no memory of the procedure.  If you are:

  • Nervous from similar a bad experiences as described above and said “I will never go back to the dentist again”
  • Have a difficult time with gagging
  • Need a lot of dental procedures done but don’t have the time to return over and over again to get it done.
  • Need multiple procedures such as crown, extractions, root canals and implant placement done and you don’t want to go to multiple dental offices. 
  • The truth is that you don’t have to wait any more.

Dr. Antolak has been providing cosmetic, implant, sedation and general dentistry for the last 22 years so give us a call now for your free consultation at (586)247-3500 or visit our website at www.TheGentleDentist.com.  Our office is in Shelby Twp. MI.

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