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ADVERTORIAL BR ry DENTAL eae meet DR. RAMI ng MAAROUF DR. RAMI MAAROUF, known affectionately by peers and patients alike as Dr. Rami, joined our community January of 2010 and has since gotten to know and appreciate the feel of Port Perry. Dr. Rami’s journey has earned him a great deal of experience as well as a profound understanding of the practice of dentistry and how it is constantly changing and evolving. Dr. Rami graduated from Dental School at New York University, where he did an internship in the Rosenthal Aesthetic institute. He practiced for a year and a half in Madrid, Spain and then went on to Dubai to practice for two years. Arriving in Canada in 2007, Dr. Rami joined a practice in Trenton, Ontario and it was in Trenton that he found out how much he liked working in a small town. Dr. Rami says “I love small towns. | enjoyed Trenton and | love the practice in Port Perry. This is right up my alley; | see the same people and 42 FOCUS - JULY 2012 07. JULY FOCUS 64 pages.indd 42 their families over again and am able to get to know them. In the big cities you see new people all the time. Here, | get to know my patients. as people; | get to know if they won their last hockey or soccer game or how their kids are doing in school. | consider some of my patients to be good friends now.” Dr. Rami is a general dentist at Port Perry Dental Associates. He is very proud of the myriad of changes that have taken place since joing the team two years ago. Dr Rami works alongside Dr. Sandro Del Rosso, Dr. Boyko an Orthodontist and Dr. Farah Walji a Periodontist. Dr. Rami says that dentistry at the Port Perry Dental Associates is very much a collaborative effort, where each dentist and dental specialist plays a role in their specific areas to ultimately improve and sustain the overall oral health of the patients. As a general dentist, Dr. Rami provides care in the different fields of dentistry such as: restoring teeth, implants, crowns, bridges, and root canals. Dr. Rami emphasizes on the cosmetics of dentistry by saying, “With the cutting edge technologies in the field of dentistry, we can redesign smiles completely. Dentistry nowadays is not only about getting a patient out of discomfort through restoring a tooth, it is about giving a patient great satisfaction and self confidence through a great looking smile” Dental veneers are a big part of Dr. Ramis work, A veneer is a thin layer of restorative material placed over a tooth surface, either to improve the aesthetics of a tooth or to protect a damaged tooth surface. Whether as a result of an accident or a tooth has been broken or 12-06-21 11:33 AM