News

New location and technology with a smile

By Scott Wagar

02/11/2014

Dr. David Liebold has moved to a new location and has set up a state-of-the-art dental office which allows him and his staff to provide a better service for their patients, while granting complete comfort to the patients.

Liebold moved from his dental office on Main Street to the former Farm Credit Services building on Highway 5. The move came because Liebold wanted to expand his business in a variety of ways.

“The move was made because we needed more room and I wanted to upgrade our equipment and technology,” Liebold said. “The expansion also allowed for the opportunity to hire more employees, which increases the number of people in our area to have jobs.”

With the move, Liebold has hired an additional assistant/hygienist along with an administrative assistant, granting him three administrators, two assistant/hygienists and another hygienist.

The building holds four treatment rooms, which include two hygiene rooms and two treatment rooms. Each room has digital x-ray equipment; television sets that allow patients to watch their favorite shows and to see their x-rays and computer programs to chart records and assists in the examination of x-rays.

Each treatment room also have new leather chairs that provide patients a massage while being treated, and also grants them a wireless headset to wear if they want to listen to the televisions during treatment.

The lighting on the chair comes on automatically when it is pulled down to begin treatments on patients and it holds a special curing light for white fillings.   

Along with these items, Liebold has purchased all new top-of-the-line tools for him to treat patients and his hygienist to clean teeth. Liebold also has a high-tech nitrous oxide system for his patients to use, which brings additional safety from older versions of the past.

Outside of the treatment rooms, the new building has a sterilization room to clean equipment and Liebold has a private lab room to conduct work on dentures, bridges, crowns and other apparatus.

The office also has an advanced panographic x-ray machine that grants a panoramic view of the mouth. The radiation from this technology of x-rays also protects the patient better because it gives off less radiation than if an individual stood out in the sunlight.

Adding to Liebold’s office is a waiting room that provides plenty of room for its patients, a play station for children and a television for individuals to watch while they wait to be seen.

There is also a well designed front desk where the administrative clerks check-in patients and conduct their other duties, a storage room for archive records and a spacious public handicapped unisex rest room.

Liebold also has his own private office to work in and there is a staff room for meals, staff meetings, along with a washer and dryer to clean items and a staff rest room.

With all the renovation work that has been completed in the building, changing it from an agricultural lending and insurance company to a progressive dentist office, Liebold designed the edifice with the future of the local area in mind when he possibly plans to retire in 10 years.  

“I felt we had to do something like this with the building to attract dentists to our area for the future,” said Liebold, who stated that today dental students are trained in the most up-to-date equipment, and when they get out of school, and begin looking for employment, they will want to work with equipment they have been trained in.

Liebold’s office is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.