Office Visit Before we get into your current office, let's get a feel of where you came from. Tell us about the first location and its limitations or challenges. SM: Our previous office was in Aloha, a suburb west of Portland. My father opened his practice there in 1978 and performed a major renovation in 1988. The practice went through several minor renovations throughout the years but was mainly unchanged from its original design. When I joined the practice in 2004, my father made several layout changes to accommodate adding two additional operatories. We eventually expanded into the adjacent space and created an operational but disorganized layout: It was open and lacked privacy between operatories, which made the acoustics noisy. It was difficult to have the intimate conversations sometimes required when reviewing treatment plans, etc. There were designated X-ray rooms, which required patients to get up from the chair in the middle of treatment-sometimes 44 JULY 2022 // dentaltown.comhttp://www.dentaltown.com