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To keep all of our patients and employees safe, we are adhering to the mandate from the CDC and State of Massachusetts that all dental/orthodontic offices remain closed until May 18^th. For your protection, if you have an appointment scheduled from now until May 18^th, it will be rescheduled as soon as we are confident that we will open on May 18th. We will be checking phone messages regularly but ask that calling the office try to be limited to inquiring about acute orthodontic emergencies and not scheduling questions.  At this point, we are only allowed to see emergency orthodontic patients with pain. We wish you good health through this tough time and we will work hard to help everyone as soon as the emergency is over.

Sincerely,

Dr. Hughes and the Team at Lakewood Park Orthodontics

Over the past month we have all had to learn new ways to live and work differently. While many of our patients are doing virtual learning at home, we are taking this time away from the office to do some virtual learning too! In past years during the Spring we been able to continue our education by traveling to the American Association of Orthodontics Annual Session in locations such as Orlando and Washington DC. Unfortunately, this year the session has been canceled due to the Covid-19 virus. We are not going to let that keep us from learning! We have taken this time away from the office to watch webinars and do online training to stay up to date on all aspects of orthodontics (HIPAA, new bonding processes, treatment coordination with our patients and the future role of teledentistry).  On our weekly office Zoom meetings we have been able to share with each other what we have learned from the webinars as well as keep in touch with one another.  We have been completing more training in Infection Control and particularly discussing new protocols for the office when we are able to reopen. We are all dedicated to ensuring the safety of our patients, their families and ourselves. Stay well everyone!

To keep all of our patients and employees safe, we are adhering to the mandate from the CDC and State of Massachusetts that all dental/orthodontic offices remain closed until May 4^th. For your protection, if you have an appointment scheduled from now until May 4^th, it will be rescheduled as soon as we are able to resume. We will be checking phone messages regularly but ask that calling the office try to be limited to inquiring about acute orthodontic emergencies and not scheduling questions. You can always call or text Dr. Hughes’ cell phone at 774-270-5429. At this point, we are only allowed to see emergency orthodontic patients with pain. We wish you good health through this tough time and we will work hard to help everyone as soon as the emergency is over.