Remembering Some Words of Wisdom

Sameer Puri D.D.S.

14 years ago

I was recently invited to lecture at Midwestern Dental School in Arizona. I want to thank all the students and faculty who attended the program. What was interesting was that the dean of the school, Dr. Russ Gilpatrick was at the University of Tennessee at the same time I was there doing my AEGD residency. There is a local state meeting called the Midsouth meeting in Memphis every year. To this day, I still remember walking among the exhibits with Dr. Gilpatrick at the 1997 Midsouth meeting. At that time, Sirona was showing the CEREC 2. Dr. Gilpatrick, a man of few but very important and profound words, looked over at me and said in his slight southern drawl, 'You know, if I was in private practice, I'd get me one of them CEREC things.' Those words are burned into my mind to this day. His reasoning was that for a GP, inlays, onlays and crowns are things we do every single day. Well, why not do them with a CAD/CAM system? I took those words to heart, and in my mind knew that one day, I would have me one of them CEREC things. CEREC has been amazing in my practice. Now involved in beta testing, the future is bright with the new innovation center that Sirona is opening up in Bensheim Germany. Their R&D team is amazing and I expect to see some great stuff down the pipeline.