Janet,

Try Direct List Technology in Anaheim, California. Ask for Catherine Lovell.

Ron,

The videos are done and ready to mail. The packets of info are done. The book is being printed right now, and I hope it will be delivered to me before New Years.

In the mean time, I’ll email you the entire manuscript. Hopefully you’ll receive your book VERY soon in the mail.

MERRY Christmas!! I love this season!

Rod

Pat,

Consider this — postage is usually the single most expensive cost of direct mail marketing. By mailing to FULL carrier routes, and especially if you have a CASS certificate, you get your lowest mailing rate — right around &#360.12 per.

Here’s what I do. I go to my list broker once every two years. We do the demographics while I’m there. We sit down at the computer and bring up a map of my area. My wife (who is my business manager) lays out the border of where we will ‘consider’ marketing to. In other words, she’s learned how far people will actually drive. So once we have established this border, then we bring up the demographics of the carrier routes.

We see the average family income of each carrier route. Then we establish a lower limit, and select all carrier routes that average this and above.

So now we have targeted our list, and we know we’ll get the lowest postage rate.

Then each time I mail, we have our list broker update things for us so that we don’t miss any new building areas.

Make sure you have your OWN bulk rate permit. It only costs &#36125 per year. If you use someone else’s bulk rate permit, it’s an open invitation to be scammed.

The sad fact is that many mailing houses will tell you, “Oh, don’t bother getting your own permit — we’re such nice guys, that we’ll let you use ours.” Big mistake!! Many, if not most, of them will really screw you.

For example, you end up paying them to fold, label, sort, bundle, and postage for 20,000 pieces. But what REALLY happens is that they throw 10,000 of your pieces in the trash. They fold, label, sort, bundle, and postage for only 10,000 pieces.

They either then don’t give you a post office postage receipt, or they give you a forged one, OR, they combine your mailing with someone elses, so it looks like you mailed 20,000 pieces, or they combine yours with several others, so you really can’t tell squat.

BUT, if you have your OWN permit, then YOU pay the post office directly, and it goes only on YOUR account for YOUR mailers. This way you KNOW they delivered 20,000 of YOUR mailers, and you don’t get screwed.

Rod

Good stuff Ron………..nice work.

How old was the patient ……around 11 or so?

I too use little round burs for caries removal, and then reuse the laser to remove the smear layer prior to etch and bond etc.

Good stuff.

Glenn

PS that photo collage was only 72 kb and done in Fotoslate with ACDSee. Saved it as a JPEG after it was complete.

Works great to give you one image only………..

Does it look ok to you guys and is this a good way to post a case…….I could actually get 24 pics into one case then if needed (3 photos with 8 photos per case)

Glenn

Hey I dont like it!

I LOVE IT……….nice work and I would do almost the exact same settings and exact same steps.

Nice stuff…….no anesthetic I guess.

Beautiful result……what did you restore it with.

Can I make one suggestion. Look close at the 2nd molar and you will see scatter and some laser etching of the mesial of that tooth.

My suggestion is to protect the adjacent tooth……..here is a case I did to show you what I mean.

Glenn

Glenn