HARLEYSVILLE, PA. - By the time you read this, I will be operating in a beautiful new $1.5 million office building complete with two back-to-back dental surgery suites and a small recovery room. I also will have the ability to achieve twice as much throughput as I can in my current facility. But the process of building the facility was anything but efficient. I would caution anyone thinking of building new to expect a mound of red tape, delays and plenty of cost overruns. Here's what happened.

Truly painless dentistry
As a dentist who has also completed an anesthesiology residency, I have a special set of skills that I use to help a special group of patients: Those who need to be put to sleep to face any dental procedure, from fillings to wisdom teeth. Like many dental and dental surgery practices, we do a full gamut of general dentistry and dental surgery, including restorations, root canal, periodontics, surgical gum therapy, wisdom tooth removal and placing dental implants. But unlike most, we do a large percentage of these procedures under general anesthesia. About 70 percent are done with inhalational anesthesia, the rest with IV.