Editor Michael Kleiman, DMD and authors review the current state of Dentoalveolar Surgery. Articles include: Pre-prosthetic Surgery; Dentoalveolar Surgery for Patients on Modern Anticoagulants and Antiresorptive Medications; Dental Extractions and Preservation of Space; Managing Impacted Third Molars; Update on Coronectomy for Impacted Third Molars at High Risk for Paresthesia; Apicoectomies: Treatment Planning and Surgical Technique in a Modern World; Minimizing Pain, Swelling and Infections for Dentoalveolar Surgery; Implementing a "Culture of Safety" in Dentoalveolar Surgery; Strategies for Minimizing Nerve Injuries in Dentoalveolar Surgery and What To Do If It Happens; Soft Tissue Procedures to Preserve and Restore Healthy Attached Gingiva around Natural Teeth and Implants; Surgical Treatment of Impacted Canines: What the Orthodontist Would Like the Surgeon to Know, and more!

In 1978 I was a young and promising child psychologist specializing in Applied Behavior Analysis procedures. Personal issues led me to giving up my dream job to return to my home town where I was unable to secure suitable employment in my field. I eventually accepted that I was not about to get hired, and watching my own kids get hungry convinced me I had to do something about it. Having house-painted throughout my college years, I was able to fall back on that. At first I only wanted to make a little money to tide me over, but soon I was captured by a more substantial impulse: to design a business model from the ground up based on good will, mindfulness and, of course, my expertise in behavioral engineering. This collection of essays presents my investigation, conveying the learning, discoveries, analyses and many anecdotal shenanigans that portray the useful and serious as well as the comic in the events that shaped me. The substance of the story is the development of novel applications of Behavior Analysis in behaviorally engineered employee and production management procedures, with a profit-motive under the ever present oversight of good will, driven by a vigilant, curious mindfulness awareness. The character of the investigations is represented in sensitive insight, specially revealed in the third part: Relationship With My Self. The result is what you will read here in "PUSHING ROCKS DOWNHILL." Coupling my behavioral background with mindful good will, I assembled skills and attitudes to form a very satisfying simple business. Anyone can do what I did. With so many today being downsized, outsourced and plain-old fired, there is much hope in doing what I did: make something out of nothing.

Our Adirondack camp is a retreat setting where solitude replaces society. In this place, the mind and spirit are freed from the usual, offering the possibility of experiencing the ordinary in an extraordinary way. The pre-Industrial-Age conditions run contrary to the requirements of our pampered civilized lifestyle, but here they are simple payment for the poetic appreciation of a more essential spiritual boundary. These writings do not represent my work on being a writer, but rather as a searching experiencer. It is my attempt to portray my experience while working to have a finer perception. These vignettes are examples of my more interesting insights, if you will, in the context of my being at camp. There is home life and there is camp life. The difference is what I call camp magic, that inner essential transformation of mind and spirit that brings me to the doorway of the living moment, revealing more of the truth of it. The magic that IS camp life is a very independent entity, not to be contained, controlled or had at will. It is a quality to which I can only aspire. And in this understanding lies the essence of the nature of it, which defines what camp life is: the discovery of an unused reality. Our Adirondack camp is a retreat setting where solitude replaces society. In this place, the mind and spirit are freed from the usual, offering the possibility of experiencing the ordinary in an extraordinary way. The pre-Industrial-Age conditions run contrary to the requirements of our pampered civilized lifestyle, but here they are simple payment for the poetic appreciation of a more essential spiritual boundary. These writings do not represent my work on being a writer, but rather as a searching experiencer. It is my attempt to portray my experience while working to have a finer perception. These vignettes are examples of my more interesting insights, if you will, in the context of my being at camp. There is home life and there is camp life. The difference is what I call camp magic, that inner essential transformation of mind and spirit that brings me to the doorway of the living moment, revealing more of the truth of it. The magic that IS camp life is a very independent entity, not to be contained, controlled or had at will. It is a quality to which I can only aspire. And in this understanding lies the essence of the nature of it, which defines what camp life is: the discovery of an unused reality.