My friend looked washed out, wrung out and hung out to dry. Her skin sagged. She moved around her house slowly, as if, with one false step . . .
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3/10/16
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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CHOOSE DARK CHOCOLATE ON VALENTINE'S DAY
Love is in the Air. This is shown by students handing out sweets for classmates to an older married couple exchanging boxes of candy; …
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Dr. Alina Bergan, DDS
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2/12/16
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A: Big Game parties are a lot of fun and a big part of the fun is the great food that we get to eat. But when it comes to our pets you are probably better off keeping them to their dog treats and …
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Central Veterinary Associates
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2/3/16
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One of the things Dr. Alina Bergan and her team monitor during your dental appointments is the growth of your wisdom teeth, or third molars. Third molars generally begin to erupt between the ages of …
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Dr. Alina Bergan, DDS
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1/6/16
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We’ve finally arrived at the holiday season and can start thinking about our wishes for the New Year. By any measure, no one believes this has been a worry-free, happy-go-lucky 12 months.
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12/24/15
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A: With the holiday season upon us it is always exciting to hear that families would like to include their pet in the festivities. There are many presents that you can get for any …
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Central Veterinary Associates
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12/21/15
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Halloween is long gone and with it time to fear time of ghouls and goblins is behind us, but many of us are still in fear and being scared of going to a dentist. Here are some tips to help …
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Dr. Alina Bergan, DDS
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12/7/15
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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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It seems like everyone is jumping on the electric toothbrush bandwagon. As many experts in the dental field are claiming electric toothbrushes provide superior dental care. It’s true that …
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Dr. Alina Bergan, DDS
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10/30/15
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