To:
"Hemp, Dave & Becky" dochemp@c-zone.net
Wow, I couldnt belive the time! I have been in your web site for a long
time almost the entire night. We have been using digital radiography for
a little over a year now and read some of the letters sent to you.Have
been in adhesive dentisry for a long time. Dr. Cordano is a instructor
for LVI, So keep up to date on all kinds of new adhesive materials.
thanks again for the awsome site!!
carrie
Subject:
too much fun!!!
Date:
Wed, 01 Jan 1997 08:21:51 -0800
From:
hodgie hodgie@2xtreme.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
enjoyed your web site! My name is carrie I work for Dr. Richard Cordano
D.D.S. here in Yuba City, Ca.Enjoyed your whole site found it very
informatable and entertaining. Stayed up way to late just exploring you
site !! Had a blast , thanks for the all the good reading and fun!!!
carrie
Subject:
Love that Music!!
Date:
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 23:17:53 -0500
From:
"Wayne Wright" waynesusie@earthlink.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Hey Doc! I'm one of your kind -- a DDS in Vandalia, Ohio. Happened on your
site while wandering around the internet with my new I-MAC. What a hoot!
Listened to the "Music Room" till about 3:00 am the other night. I'm a '64
grad of Ohio State University College of Dentistry. Spent 2 years with
Uncle Sam's Air Force in your great state, down on the desert at
Victorville, and then came back here where I've been practicing our great
profession for the last 33 years. Expect to go another 15 if we can keep
the damn insurance people at bay. So far, I've told them all to go pound
salt or worse. I have a 1931 Ford Victoria that I purchased from Don Ross
down in Lancaster Calif. He has been restoring Model A's for the last 20
years and operates with the Antelope Valley Antique Car Club. Maybe you
know him. I also have a 66 Red Mustang Convertible that I love to drive out
to your (God's) country whenever I can. I'll be in California next in early
July, backpacking with the Sierra Club and my wife, somewhere near Donner
Pass. If you care to respond, maybe we could look you up on that trip.
Anyway, thanks a bunch for the Great Music!!! Wayne & Susie Wright
Subject:
Date:
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:34:54 -0000
From:
"paul Mc Evoy" pjdent@indigo.ie
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Dear Dr Hemp
I stumbled across your web site a few days ago, whilst looking for
information about air abrasion systems, and was very impressed.
I really liked your enthusiasm for dentistry, new techniques, and life
outside dentistry. (The jokes weren't too bad either. Well,,,,, they are
better than my own.)
Perhaps, before I go on any further I should explain that I am a dentist
myself, I have a comparatively new practice in Dublin, in the Republic of
Ireland. My practice, is established just over five years now, and seems to
be going very well,. ( I am particularly proud of the fact that I have 2400
patients registered with myself, and a growth rate of almost one and half
new patients per calendar day. And all this in really country were all
forms of advertising, except word of mouth are completely banned.)
My reason for contacting you is, if I may be so intrusive, to ask your
advice about air abrasion.
I'm seriously considering purchasing an air abrasion cavity preparation
machine, specifically one by Crystal Mark DDS .INC
I would greatly appreciate your advice on whether I should really go down
this road of air abrasion, or not. Has it proved to be a good idea in your
own practice,? and is it really worth the investment of $ 8000 ?
Secondly, to you know the above make,? Are the any good reasons not to buy
this specific one,.? (I have already purchased some equipment from the
same company that is selling me this particular machine, and have been very
satisfied with its performance over the last five years.)
Once again, I hope that I am not being too presumptuous by asking advice,
and taking up your time in this matter, however ,as I said your approach
seems very similar to my own and I would appreciate your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Paul Mc Evoy
Subject:
RE: Latest Dental technologies
Date:
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:30:56 -0500
From:
"J. E. Davies" davies@ecf.utoronto.ca
To:
"dochemp" dochemp@c-zone.net
Thank you for the message - I rushed out to get my own issue of Discover!
However, for your web page please note the following:
1. The name of the magazine in question is "Discover" not "Discovery
Magazine"
2. My qualifications are B.D.S.; D.Sc. - not DDS as I qualified in the UK
system.
3. In your header you have Bone Tech Corp - but the name should be BoneTec
Corp.
Many thanks
(John Davies)
-----Original Message-----
From: dochemp [mailto:dochemp@c-zone.net]
Sent: January 24, 1999 9:31 PM
To: davies@ecf.utoronto.ca
Subject: Latest Dental technologies
<< file: vcard.vcf >> David,
congratulations on your new synthetic bone matrix .... please see our
Latest Dental Technologies site .... and then some.
http://www.c-zone.net/dochemp/newbone.html
C. David Hemp DDS Inc.
Subject:
(no subject)
Date:
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:06:33 +0530
From:
NIRAV DESAI cybernet@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
NIRAV DESAI wrote:
Dear Becky and Dave,
I am a private dental practioner from India. I really enjoyed your site.
I found the matter highly informative. I am visiting theUS sometime in
April/May. I would appreciate if I could spend some time with you and
learn more about adhesion dentistry. Do let me know if that is possible.
Thanking You
Dipti Desai
e-mail address dipti9@yahoo.com
>>>>>>>>>>>
Dear Dipti,
We are truly flattered you think enough of our website to want to visit & observe, but
as you might imagine ... we get a lot of requests like yours ... even from those in our own
town .... I have had to say no to all anymore as we have a job to do & it is too disturbing
to the office flow, our contribution has to be through the website only ..... I don't even
take time to lecture, as any time I do have is dedicated to our many web sites ... but the
good news is ..... there is someone that I hope can help you through your visit to his office
or to one of his lectures while you are here ..... Ray Bertolotti .... the top USA dentist on
adhesion or Bondodontics. I am sending this to him also ... good luck to you!
kindest of regards,
Dave & Becky Hemp
Subject:
Your Web page.
Date:
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:57:39 -0200
From:
Mitch Bennett mb7644@carol.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Lots of fun. Broke a tooth eating a tootsie pop waiting for the page
tocome up. But don't worry, I'm from SC so I won't be trying to make an
appointment. Found your pages looking for Studebakers. Really like the old
cars but my interest has always been in the Hawks.
Thanks for the fun.
Mitch
Subject:
Compliments
Date:
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:44:44 -0600
From:
"Larry Campbell" lcampbel@texoma.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Dave and Becky,
Compliments for such a varied website with the music, humor, dental info, and especially the cars! I am also a D.D.S. and I also have some cars,
although on a much more humble scale. I have a 1939 Packard coupe that went over Independence Pass in Colorado this past summer on the
Americruise. I also have a 1939 Oldsmobile sedan that we took to other Americruises to Peoria, Ill. and Lincoln, Neb. Finally, I have a 1946 Mercury coupe
that hasn't been anywhere except to a couple of local (north Texas) car shows. These old cars sure are fun. My wife has always wanted us to get a really
old and nice car like the early era ones on your website.
Thanks for the effort to make the site available.
Larry Campbell
Sherman, Texas
Subject:
Re: Letter
Date:
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:43:37 -0500 (EST)
From:
Stephen Kriss sck1@is2.nyu.edu
To:
dochemp dochemp@c-zone.net
Folks, this following email is from the fellow that saw we were looking for this Nov 20, 1943 Saturday Evening Post in which there was an article about my Uncle Herb (a B 25 Mitchell Bomber Pilot in the China theater during world war 2 - done just before he & crew were shot down & killed) as posted on our airplane pages out of BAD Chariots .... Steve saw our request for that magazine & contacted us ... he only wanted $10.00 including shipping for it ...... now that may be the going price for these ..... but not that one special date for us!!
We sent him more for finding our wants from the internet for this special magazine!! We do not collect magazines ...... only this special one! Uncle Herb was awarded 4 Purple Hearts, the Air Medal & the Flying Cross. I feel it is my responsibility to live his life for him too .... which he & other Veterans gave up to protect all of us. To enjoy the freedom of this wonderful country & what it has to offer.
Thank you again Stephen Kriss.
Dave Hemp
At 05:02 PM 1/14/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Steve,
>we really appreciated your contacting us on the magazine .... we felt
>you didn't charge enough .... wanted to wait & see if you were for real
>with your offer first though and that we actually got the magazine before we sent you some more money .... we are glad you are. We only had
>copies of the front & the article before.
Do you have a website we can
>link to? Do you do this commercially? If so we will give you a plug
>with your address & phone # ... just email it to me again to post.
>kindest regards,
>Dave & Becky
>
Hi Dave and Becky.
I have been selling vintage magazines and paper
collectibles part time since 1980. I will be retiring in two years and then
will probably have the time to "fool around" with a web site and update it
on a routine and timely basis.
I am aware what dealers charge for various vintage magazines and the higher
prices for searching and individual covers, etc., and that I can easily
receive those prices for my inventory. However, I am not in a full time
business with overhead to worry about, and enjoy attempting to find or sell
an item at a price that makes one happy and gives me a small profit (which
is at present being used to complete a set of Saturday Evening Posts from
1900-1949).
I can be contacted through the above email address or at 30 East 9th Street,
New York, NY 10003, should you wish to recommend me.
Once again, thanks for your generosity, concern and good thoughts.
All the best,
Steve
Subject:
Local offices..
Date:
30 Dec 1998 14:33:44 -0800
From:
Bill Fletcher bill.fletcher@transamerica.com
To:
Dochemp dochemp@c-zone.net
Hey Doc,
Thanks for the great background into current denistry technologies. I
appreciated your websites information very much..
One question... Do you have a San Franciscan collegue I could visit... I
have a number of the dental problems you addressed in your website. I am
new to San Francisco.
Thank you,
Bill Fletcher
Subject:
Date:
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 07:28:52 -0800
From:
"Terry and Bev Rust " trust@mercy.org
To:
"Dave Hemp" dochemp@c-zone.net
Dandy: I am still alive and kicking.
Last night I was in the Hospital for
5 hours putting a face back together, the guy tried one of you large bore
pistols to his face. What a friggen mess. Bone, Mandible and Maxilla
everywhere, no palate teeth everywhere, no floor of the mouth left, this
was one of the worst I have ever seen. He will be a nightmare
reconstruction for the next two years so how can I quit.
I don't know what I am going to do today with the girls. I have been
trying to get them to Chico to try the BMW. Tara and I took the Harley on
a ride Saturday. She did fine. I rode on the back and she handled the rest.
You get to work right now and keep me busy. Hee Hee
Crusty
>>>>>>>>>>>
.... geeeze, ..... I'm glad all I have to worry about is one half of a
bridge loosening up ... or maybe an emergency call at 2 a.m. ...... help! ...
help doc! .... I chipped a tooth opening a beer bottle!!! What shall I
do???? I juss tell em .... drink the damn beer, tape an asprin on your tooth,
& go by the hospital & wait for Crusty Rusty to finish ..... he's there
every night cuttin & sew'n .... have him pull it ... put in an implant
.... all before sun up .... call me in 6 months for the damn crown. Hee-hee!
Dandy Dave
Subject:
Harry Vega & Digital X-Rays
Date:
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:01:15 -1000
From:
Al Navas alnavas@earthlink.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Dear Doc Hemp:
Wow what a SITE!!!
I just read your reminiscing page from your days at Loma Linda and particularly from your fond memories of your favorite people, including my uncle Harry Vega. I
enjoyed that page the most among all of your other wonderfully entertaining pages. He is my mother's youngest brother (7 brothers and sisters) and the first to go to
the other side 5 years ago. The whole family still misses him He was a big influence on why I became a dentist. He was a very busy dental lab man and he was
instrumental in helping my mom bring me and my brothers to California from Colombia back in '65. I can see why you would like him, and Dr. Bomb Baum, and ol'
buddy Dr. Byrd (did my table clinic with him). All three were/are very deep intellectuals with a bombastic sense of humor and an extremely caring attitude. It
sounds as though you were one of the fortunate students who got infected from such individuals!!!!
I came to your site through the link from Linda Buquet's site. I purchased the Kreativ Mac5 unit through Linda about 4 months ago. I usually do not buy
top-of-the-line stuff, but this time I thought "What the hay, I spent a lot more defending the little that I kept from that divorce, might as well spend it on rebuilding the
practice- go for the bestest". I do not regret at all!!! There are a lot of different units out there (as I found out prior to my purchasing Kreativ's), but I sure liked the
self-contained unit. No remodeling of my water lines, or my compressor hook-ups, etc. etc. etc. Just plug&play.
I also bought the Dexis digital x-ray. What a wonderful find!!!! That I know, it is the only digital x-ray that works from a LAPTOP!! I have two offices, do a lot of
endos and surgery, therefore the portable x-ray is very handy, accurate and quick!! Do not know how I would do any dentistry without it anymore!!!!!
Enough ear bending. I wish I had had your savvy insight to be on the net for five years now. I finally got it last Saturday. You may want to cruise it on a really rainy
night when you have caught up with all of your research and email reading, and the bike is in the shop and all of tv channels are blacked out
and.......www.cyberdentist.net
Al Navas D.D.S.
Subject:
Mercury amalgam fillings
Date:
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:01:57 -0500
From:
Steve White steve.white3@sympatico.ca
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Steve White wrote:
Dear Doc Hemp,
I actually found your site browsing for info on Harleys. A friend of mine produces billet
aluminum after market parts for HD's.
My question though pertains to the continued use of mercury amalgam fillings in dentistry.
>>>>>>>>>
There is no saftey problem ... it has been exhaustively researched & I mean researched by the real scientific
establishement. We have a compilation of over 300 studyies in the past 10yrs that we keep for patients to take to
Kinkos & copy & (bring back the same day so we don't lose them) It is a stack 3" thick & none show a danger
... you will get more mercury out of 2 - 3 cans of Tuna fish my friend, than out of chewing on a mouth full of
amalgams in a life time. BUT! removing huge amounts of them all at once with the new Micro Air Abrasion might
indeed release mercury vapor. That is why it is recommended that the M.A.A. be used only for new decay & the
removal of white fillings.
>>>>>>>>
I have seen many health shows quoting recent research that questions the safety of these fillings. I am personally
interested due to the fact that I have extensive bite surface fillings using this material and because I have four
children. I am beginning to wonder if and when they require filling treatments should I consider paying the extra
to avoid possible toxic side effects?
>>>>>>>>
Yes, I would pay extra (but not because of toxicity!) Have the new micro air abrasion done & have them filled
with the newest white composites .... no numbing required, no high speed drill at all. The tooth is put into a
numbed state for about 10 minutes & a slow speed drill is used to remove only the soft decay (we no longer do
extention of & drill out all the grooves for prevention of further decay.) The size if the fillings is 1/5 average size of
the old amalgam preps. I may tunnel fill 3 seperate small decayed areas in one tooth & micro abraid the grooves
slightly between them all & seal them all together with a little bit of the thinned filling material so EVERYTHING is
totally sealed & no further decay is possible there for many years at least. The new white composite fillings wear
very well too! Silver fillings demand thickness for strength (unneccesary cutting of healthy tooth structure after the
removal of decay in small cavities especially!) .... you can't seal shallow grooves with it either.
Thanks for your very good question ..... this subject really needed clarifying .. am posting this in our dental reading
room & on our technology page.
Regards,
Doc Hemp
>>>>>>>>>
If I was to read any of the current research to assist in my decision what periodicals would you recommend?
Remember next time you see a HD with a Pro1 chrome billet alluminum inner primary it was made in
Canada!
Sincerely,
Steve White
Subject:
Dental Students Page
Date:
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:25:24 -0800
From:
"Michael J Long DDS" mcdds@email.msn.com
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
WOW!
Well, I'm not a dental student, but I do show up once a week to teach them.
I have done this since graduation 4 years ago. What words of wisdom. How
about the lecture circuit?
2 things I say to students daily:
1. Would you do this to your wife/husband/girl or boyfriend?
2.Kids want ice-cream for dinner, but that's not going to happen.
( When treatment is not indicated, the patient wants it, and has not been educated
about the choice they made. A choice that will surely help fill the students
requirements)
Subject:
Damn good site.
Date:
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:31:33 -0500
From:
Bob Fox rflowriderii@worldnet.att.net
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Hello Dave and Becky,
I happen to be a dentist in North Carolina (31 years in practice). I
have Harleys also and have been riding since I was 12. (now 59). Your
site is great. An architect friend in Raleigh sent it to me.(he also
rides a Harley and we went to Wake Forest together many years ago.) I
will enjoy going through the rest of it, but just thought a short note
would be nice. I ride with a bunch of dentists---general, oral
surgeons, orthodontists, and endodontists. We also have an interior
decorator (straight), a landscape architect, a Federal and a superior
court judge. (in fact--2 Federal Judges --on harleys.) They are
avid. You are certainly right about who you will meet. I have pictures
with Willie G. and others, but have not met Teerlink. (would like to
though). Been to Sturgis 2 times and intend to go more. Love it and the
entire Black Hills. Also Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Enough for now.
Please write back and tell me more. I am in Winston-Salem, NC.
Bob Fox
Subject:
re-attaching gums to teeth using a laser
Date:
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:58:36 PST
From:
"Donald Riggs" donriggs@hotmail.com
To:
dochemp@c-zone.net
Since lasers can be used to create high-strength bonds between tendons
and bones, as well as to re-attach retinas and a host of other
"tissue-welding", has anyone yet used lasers to reattach gums to teeth,
eliminating pockets and recreating the gum-to-tooth seal of new teeth?
Don Riggs
computer consultant,
chemist,
Electro-dermal Screening Technician
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Don,
Lasers are used extensively in periodontal & oral surgery, have been for 15
years. Mostly for bloodless or low bleeding surgery as it cauterizes
as it cuts. The big problem is that if the internal temp of the pulp
of the tooth is heated up even 5 degrees it will develop a pulpitis & be
painful & can take up to 8-10 yrs to die. Lasers are now being used to
cut into hard tooth structure though for fillings, but the heat problem
is still a concern & is being watched closely.
Once the tissue is repostionioned or a graft from the roof of the mouth
is placed over the exposed root it does reattach to it. You still have
to cut it & flap it, etc. from somewhere else first though.
regards,
Doc Hemp
ChriDelite@aol.com wrote:
My oldest son, David, who is 25 years old; is ' squeamish ' of dentists mostly
of needles. Consequently, his teeth are in pretty bad shape. He's
considered dentures by way of going to a surgeon; getting completely put
under. So far, I've talked him out of this idea but I fear that his teeth are
getting to such a point of no return. He lives in Tulsa, Ok and I live in
Kansas City and if you could help him, I could fly with him to your office or
someone your office could recommend.
We would be so grateful if you could help, I've tried several avenues but to
no avail.
Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
Dear David's Father,
He can be treated with Valium first, Having your teeth out at that age is like getting a
really bad tattoo! EVERYONE LIVES TO REGRET IT! & to fix the problem costs
100 times as much = full mouth implants = $60,000 to put back something that is only
10% as good as God gave us. He's the one that has to comitt to saving his own teeth &
taking care of them with 6 month cleanings the rest of his life etc. He will also age 40
years in only 20 years with all the bone absorbing = shriveled in old face!
I take no new patients, I am sending this to Dr Ray Bertolotti also - he lectures world
wide & can maybe do the case if you want to fly in or get you to a conservative dentist.
good luck,
doc hemp 
