It’s one of those every year type of things.

To me and the team at Today’s Dental, the thing we look forward to the most is the Periodic Exam and cleaning at the dental office. It’s so great we like to do it TWICE a year; once with and once without X-Rays.

Ground Hog Day is kind of like the myriad of other annual esoteric events such as Civil War in the Southwest annual activities at Picacho Peak State Park. And who can’t stay away from Flickerfest: Australia's only annual competitive International Short Film Festival and never a dull moment annually at Oenorama in Athens; the biggest and most important event of the Greek wine industry.

Periodic dental checkups aren’t esoteric at all, but they do come around every year…twice.

It's all about the excitement of finding the results. Waiting for the hairy little weather predictor to pop out of his hole and stay out or go back and hide, is like waiting for the hygienist to tell us how stable our pocket depths are. Even though we know spring will come each and every year, this is the day we find out if it will come soon or sooner (or if you live in Phoenix, if spring was here yesterday, you may have missed it altogether). At our regular checkup we know the hygienist is going to tell us how well we are doing with our comprehensive program of home care to maintain our oral hygiene and health. But this is the day we find out if we are good, better or best compared to the last checkup!

Keeping it real; it’s a stretch to compare Groundhog Day; or any of the annual events around the world, to a periodic dental checkup and cleaning but clearly we could all look forward to these events and not miss any of them. Just like you wouldn’t consider missing the annual Swamp Buggy Races in Florida Sports Park in Naples, FL (these races are so good they happen THREE TIMES a year!).

See you soon (or at least 6 weeks from soon!)

- Dr. Michael Glass