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# Will My Patients Still Recognize Me? – Dr. Gary Solnit

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As we all have struggled to get used to the new Covid guidelines, I wonder how impersonal dental care will become and what our new patients think when they don’t even know what we look like anymore.

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**Dr. Gary Solnit**

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