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Churchill Place 905-338-3311 The Kensington 905-844-4000 Trafalgar Lodge 905-842-8408 0453 4 Lori Paton RN, RRT Nurse Next Doors services range from a 3 hour a week concierge service to an onsite 24 hr per day Registered Nurse. Nurse Next Door Home Healthcare Inc. Offi ce: 905.257.3452 Website: www.nursenextdoor.com Making Lives Better One Visit At A Time NOVEMBER IS FALL PREVENTION MONTH AT NURSE NEXT DOOR The statistics regarding seniors falls are alarming: 33% of older adults living at home fall each year 85% of injury related hospital admissions in seniors are the result of falls 90% of hip fractures are the result of falls Nurse Next Door is giving back to the community it serves through its annual Fall Prevention Week, offering free home safety inspections to local seniors. We are making the lives of local seniors safer by checking their homes for typical fall hazards. The majority of senior falls are preventable. Here are some additional tips to minimize your risk. Eat well and stay active to maintain strong muscles and bones Have regular checkups to ensure vision and hearing have not deteriorated Use nightlights to brighten dark hallways and stairwells Secure rugs and remove clutter, especially in high traffi c areas Have sturdy handrails on both sides of stairways & ensure steps are in good condition Use walking aids correctly and dont rush; take your time Keep emergency numbers by all phones for easy access Use medications safely as even some over the counter medications can make you dizzy or drowsy Nurse Next Doors local Fall Prevention Week is part of a national program that will be running in communities across Canada. The program, now in its third year, has already reached hundreds of seniors across the country. Hopedale Shopping Centre 1515 Rebecca Street Suite 220, 2nd Floor 905-827-0301 OakdaleDental.ca Dr. Rosenblat D.D.S. Q: Is there any way to make a crown without taking a mold of my mouth? A: Yes it is possible to restore teeth with crowns, bridges and onlays without impressions and in less time than before using the latest in dental CAD CAM technology. Today it is very common for just about anything that is going to be manufactured to use computer technology to aid in the design and fabrications of that product. It is called: Computer assisted design and computer assisted manufacturing or CAD CAM. Dentistry has traditionally relied on custom handcrafting to make restorations like crowns. The majority of crowns today are still made this way, laboriously layering and baking porcelain on to metal structures for strength. New very strong types of porcelain have been developed that allow dentistry to exploit computer technologies to precisely fabricate crowns and other restorations from a solid block of these new, very strong porcelains. With no metal needed to support the porcelain these new crowns look very life-like. Using computers to fabricate crowns means high precision crowns fabricated more quickly than ever before with much more consistent results. Now the best part of this is how we tell the computer what your teeth look like so it can make you that new crown. When a technician is going to hand craft a crown the dentist will take an impressions or mold of your teeth. This putty like material has to stay in your mouth for a few minutes to set. After it is removed from the mouth for a few minutes to set. After it is removed from the mouth we put a plaster into the impression to make a model of your teeth which is used to make the crown. Well the days of impressions are numbered. To make a CAD CAM crown, we use a computer scanner to laser scan the tooth to be crowned, sending the information to the computer that will make the crown! This results in more accurate and better fi tting crowns. I am really excited about the beautiful crowns I have been able to make for my patients with this new technology. Dr. Steven Rosenblat Great things start with a smile! Visit my blog at OakdaleDental.ca Susan Leung Certified Teacher/DirectorQ A If there are no grades on the November report card, how do I know how my child is doing? Sylvan offers a individualized academic programs for students in grades K -12. For additional information, visit www.SylvanLearning.com or call Oakville Sylvan Learning Centre 905.469.6353. Provincial changes to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL REPORT CARDS will make it more challenging for you to discover exactly how your child is performing academically at school. As you read this new report card many of you will be asking yourself some common questions: Is my childs academic performance above or below average?, Will I have to wait until February to find out? Is there some way I can get information sooner? Sylvan can help. To assist families we are offering a Comprehensive Academic Assessment and a Consultation with a Certified Teacher that will tell you exactly where your child is performing in Math, Reading, and Writing. 4 R V B S F 0 O F t 1 P S U $ S F E J U & S J O . J M M T t 0 B L W J M M F 1-800-338-2283 www.educate.com 25 Thursday , N ovem ber 4, 2010 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m