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Another Fabulous LANAP Experience

Can Gum Surgery Work and Actu­ally Be Com­fort­able? Well, to answer that ques­tion, let me tell you about a recent patient who found us online through my web­site devoted to LANAP, aka Laser Peri­odon­tal Ther­apyTM, which is www​.Laser​Den​tistChar​lotte​.com.  Remark­ably, he drove over 4 hours to see us from just north of Myr­tle Beach, SC because […]

The Southern Women’s Show from a Dentist’s View

The Southern Women’s Show from a Dentist’s View

Well, it’s been almost 2 whole days for Smiles by Payet Den­tistry here at the SWS, and it’s been a blast.  Admit­tedly, as a hap­pily mar­ried guy, I’ve prob­a­bly not enjoyed it as much as the women or as if I were sin­gle , but it’s been a blast as an exhibitor for the first […]

Saving Teeth from Gum Disease and the Trash Can — Ain’t This Awesome?

Saving Teeth from Gum Disease and the Trash Can — Ain’t This Awesome?

Hav­ing prac­ticed den­tistry now for 12 years, I’ve seen a lot of dif­fer­ent stuff, tried dif­fer­ent tech­nolo­gies, dif­fer­ent tech­niques, etc.  Most of it works pretty well, some of it we dis­card and look for some­thing new or bet­ter, and occa­sion­ally we scrap the new and return to the tried-and-true tech­niques and meth­ods that have been […]

Six-Month Braces if you have Gum Disease? YES!

Patients with peri­odon­tal (gum) dis­ease often end up being very embar­rassed about their smiles, because as the dis­ease pro­gresses and more bone is lost, the teeth start drift­ing.  It’s not uncom­mon to see the teeth flared out with a lot of spaces between them, or the bot­tom front teeth really crowded as the teeth shifted […]

Dr. Oz talks about Periodontal (Gum) Disease and Total Health

I guess it’s because I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I con­fess that — until quite recently — I had absolutely no idea who this guy Dr. Oz is.  A friend recently told me that Dr. Oz has some really good mate­r­ial about den­tal health that can be shared, and since it’s sometimes […]

Is There a Comfortable Treatment for Periodontal (Gum) Disease? YES!

I just got off the phone with one of our patients from yes­ter­day for whom we had done LANAP, also known as Laser Peri­odon­tal Ther­apyTM, as I wanted to check and see how she is doing today.  And even though I have heard the same exact story prac­ti­cally every sin­gle time, I still find it […]

2009 is Almost Over — Use Your Dental Benefits/Flex Plan $ or Lose Them!

USE IT OR LOSE IT! Your Den­tal Insur­ance, that is.  Did you know that, when your den­tal insur­ance year runs out, you LOSE what­ever ben­e­fits you have left?  Unlike phone min­utes, there’s no “roll-over” for your insur­ance, so once they’re gone, they’re GONE. We are rapidly approach­ing the end of 2009, and our sched­ule is already […]

Best Treatment for Gum Disease

It’s easy for me to tell you that Laser Peri­odon­tal Ther­apyTM is both effec­tive and com­fort­able, but we both know that it’s eas­ier to believe when you talk to some­one who has actu­ally been through it.  So, right after we fin­ished up treat­ing a really sweet patient yes­ter­day, we asked her if she wouldn’t mind […]

News segment with Terrie Reeves & Dr. Payet on “Train for Life”, on TVNews 14 in Charlotte — coming soon!

Ear­lier this year, I had the plea­sure of record­ing a short inter­view with the Founder and Pres­i­dent (and one of my patients) of the Well­ness Coali­tion of Amer­ica, Ms. Ter­rie Reeves, for her weekly seg­ment on TVNews 14 (every Sun­day) called “Train for Life.” Each week, Ter­rie inter­views peo­ple in dif­fer­ent areas of life, all […]

Periodontal disease and Erectile Dysfunction? Seems crazy, but just maybe connected!

Wow — this one even sur­prised me!  Check out this sum­mary of a recent study from the Jour­nal of Sex­ual Med­i­cine: Erec­tile dys­func­tion might be asso­ci­ated with chronic peri­odon­tal dis­ease: two ends of the car­dio­vas­cu­lar spec­trum. Zadik Y, Bechor R, Galor S, Justo D, Heruti RJ. Cen­ter for Health Pro­mo­tion and Pre­ven­tive Med­i­cine, Med­ical Corps, […]

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“Dr. Payet is an amaz­ingly gifted den­tist. I liked my smile before but was amazed at the dif­fer­ence the veneers made. His atten­tion to detail and “chair side man­ner” made me com­fort­able dur­ing the entire process.  He gen­uinely cares and goes to great lengths to ensure you are happy and 100% sat­is­fied. I highly rec­om­mend Dr. Payet to any­one look­ing for a great Char­lotte den­tist!”

Ter­rie Reeves,  Well­ness Coali­tion of America
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