Dr. Ginger Hansen D.D.S.

Thank you to all of our wonderful patients for helping us donate to North County Food Bank. The North County Food Bank provides nutritious food to people in need, advocates for the hungry and educates the public about hunger-related issues. If you like more information or would like to donate, please visit their page at: https://www.facebook.com/NorthCountyFoodBank

What are you doing to celebrate?

Remember to take care of your smile!

We appreciate you!

Purple is my third favorite color behind cobalt blue and fire engine red. But not as a Covid19 color. We were doing great and now BAM, up to Purple. In San Diego county we have 8.9 cases per 100,000 and 39 community outbreaks. Yes, 39! The goal is to have 7 or fewer in both categories. https://sdcounty.maps.arcgis.com/a/opsdashboard/index.html This means that as a group we are not doing our best with mask wearing and social distancing. Yet, the better we do, more bus...inesses can stay open and survive this mess. I know we are all suffering from the Covid19 Blues which is lessened by being in contact with others. So, please be prudent in your social activities. We don’t know what the long-term health consequences of getting Covid19 will be and I, for one, don’t want to have any of them. We are coming up to the holiday season. Make good choices, stay safe and healthy. At the office, we are continuing to do everything I have talked about in past newsletters (an hour between patients per room, complete sanitizing of the rooms between patients, cold fogging after every patient, HEPA filters in each room, high speed extraoral vacuums, etc.). Our goal is to keep you safe and healthy while you are receiving your needed dental treatment. Thank you for trusting us. And thank you for keeping the office safe by not coming in if you are feeling under the weather. In my last newsletter, I chatted about choosing joy. Martha Beck wrote The Joy Diet. It is not a losing weight diet, it is a happiness diet. She teaches you 10 daily practices to increase the happiness in your life. This is one of my favorite life help books. (Other favorites, just in case you want to know, are The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris and Loving What is by Byron Katie). I won’t bore you with more. One study found that children laugh about 400 times in a day while adults only laugh about 20 times. It is said that angels can fly because they take them selves lightly. We could learn something from children and angels about connecting to joy. I know this election on top of Covid19 has been extremely stressful for everyone, no matter who you voted for. That said, it is time to move forward and work together as a nation. We have shown our best selves when we have worked together for the greater good. We have done it in the past, we can do it now. It takes the courage to really listen without judgement to the other’s viewpoint and find common ground (Beyond the Bubble by Tania Israel, PhD). We all want to be safe, have financial stability, grow happy, healthy children and achieve our dreams. There is enough for everyone. As my Buddhist friend would say, Namaste (the divine in me respectfully recognizes the divine in you). I wish you all joy and sanity. See more

We love animals!

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Congrats to J. Akers. She was our weekly $25 gift card winner. Enjoy!!!

Congratulations to our patient T. Schneibel. She was our $25 gift card weekly winner.

Thank you to our wonderful patients who helped us donate to Green Oaks Ranch. Green Oaks Ranch provide food for the hungry, shelter for the poor and care for needy families. If you would like more information or would like to donate, please visit their page at: https://www.facebook.com/greenoakranch/

October 6, 2020 Newsletter #13 You may have been wondering what happened to my weekly newsletter. I caught the Covid19 Blues. Not the virus but the result of being a good girl and isolating myself (me and my cats, lol). I have always been a glass half full kind of gal, basically optimistic and happy, sometimes annoyingly so. But I have found that I have somehow misplaced my joy. Since I am an ambivert (yes, there is such a thing, an introvert/extrovert combo) I am not... suffering as much as the true extroverts but more than the true introverts. I am sure I am not alone in having the Covid19 Blues. You may be suffering from it, too. Some of the things I am doing to bring more joy into my life are Zoom Happy Hours with distant friends, annoying others by over texting, long phone conversations with my family and taking private dance lessons. All these things are helping but it is not enough since I am spending half my life at work. Next time when you come in for an appointment you may find us doing silly unexpected things. I think I may tape a Hopscotch down the center hall, or maybe skip between patients. Not totally sure yet, but I have to do more fun stuff at work for my sanity. You are invited to join us in our journey to more joy (I haven’t told my staff yet, you are the first to know). We will be posting on Facebook what we are doing and I may even use my Twitter account. It is a new normal, after all. Back to the bits you are actually interested in. We thank you for staying home if you are not feeling 100% healthy, wearing your masks properly, washing your hands, social distancing and making prudent choices of activities. What we are doing here to keep you safe and healthy is to wipe down all the public areas hourly, sanitizing any pens or clipboards before re-use, HEPA filters in each room, closing doors to contain aerosols and using high speed extraoral vacuums during procedures, cold fogging (newsletter #10) and wiping down every surface in the room with a hospital grade disinfectant between patients. Plus limiting the number of patients in the office, etc (newsletters #’s 6, 7, 9). I have already bored you silly. Working together we can all stay safe and healthy until there is a vaccine and we have herd immunity. Let’s choose joy. Pay attention to the things that connect you with joy . . . It’s one of the secrets to life that no one ever tells you. Joy cures everything . . . Joy is the antidote to fear. To anger. To boredom. To sorrow . . . But you can’t just decide to feel joyful . . . you can decide to do something joyful. What You Wish For by Katherine Carter See more

How did you celebrate?

Its National Comic Book Day! What's your favorite comic book?

It's talk like a Pirate Day! Who is your favorite Pirate?

Take a look at this video to see how cold fog works in our office. We are taking a lot of precautions to try and keep our patients safe.

We love this fun toy!