A Visitor

Almost two years ago, in a quick visit to a root canal website discussion group,I noted that a dentist asked the group how to polish bonding resin on front teeth. The world famous endodontist ( a root canal specialist from Manhattan) responded to the question posted on the forum that he only performed root canals and perhaps another dentist would be so kind as to answer the guests question.
I posted my answer to the question and never returned to the root canal site. Eight months later, I received a personal email from a young dentist in Bangalore, India asking additional questions. I sent the young dentist answers to his questions and I received another email with new questions...And on and on.
I have been mentoring this young dentist from India and in 10 days, he will visit my office in Saratoga and spend time with me learning how to do beautiful, strong, bonded dentistry.

I am honored that someone would travel around the world to spend time with this old country dentist. One might ask WHY he would do this since there certainly other dentists with a greater reputation.

I have never sought to be in the dental limelight, present lectures for large honorarium or be paid by the dental manufacturers to hawk their products. I will lecture at the School of Dental Medicine in Buffalo or at Root Canal Experts Learning Center and accept no payment. Or I will mentor young dentists also at no charge. My young colleague from India could see from my work that I was only interested in pursing excellence and that is who he wanted to learn from.

We will be honored to have Dr. Ashok Gowda in our office on February 9.