Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • H10

DESIGNER: amaNDa.DEpRISco@NwI.com H10 Sunday, February 26, 2012 Siouxcityjournal.com By Michele linck DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. clear to see that Drs. Patrick Vezeau and Timo- thy Holton are proud of their new offices in the Two Rivers Business Center at Dakota Dunes. a a i build- ing at 301 Oak Tree Lane holds Oral Surgery Asso- ciates, the oral and maxil- lofacial surgical practice. Their partners are Drs.

Richard Dohrman, Darrel Baker and Clinton Norby. All five are maxillofacial surgeons. Oral and maxil- lofacial surgeons care for patients with problem wis- dom teeth, facial pain, and misaligned jaws. They treat accident victims suffering facial injuries, place dental implants, care for patients with oral cancer, tumors and cysts of the jaws, and perform facial cosmetic surgery. Vezeau and Dohrman ow a re ce i i to around their six examine rooms, eight surgical suites and two recovery rooms, where patients are moni- tored continuously after their procedure.

just like a recovery room in a Vezeau said. kept to the same Vezeau and Holton are excited about their new offices at the Dunes, but seem most proud of their state-of-the-art 3-D cone beam CT scanner. Holton said it allows the surgeon to see nerves and to place tooth implants ac- curately to within 100th of an inch. A soothing, earthy green and mellow autumn yellow follows throughout the building. Historic pho- tos of Sioux City line the waiting room walls.

Patient traffic flow has been built into the office to keep both and movements smooth. Adding to the sensible flow are the open scheduling and business offices, which are central to the front of the building, so patients can check in, be seen and check out without back-tracking. Office records, includ- ing X-rays, are all kept in digital form with off-site back-up. The new building even provides a separate exit door for post-surgical pa- tients, who may not want to encounter anyone at that point in their treat- ment. neW DiGS, hiSTORic ROOTS The doctors moved into their new space on Sept.

1, after losing their former office space at St. Luke Re- gional Medical to the nursing col- lege. Be twe ey continue to serve on the medical staffs at St. along with Mercy Medical Center, Pierce Street Same Day Surgery, Siouxland Surgery Center and the Or- ange City and Storm Lake, Iowa, hospitals. They also share emer- gency room on-call duties with ear, nose and throat specialists and with plastic surgeons.

While the office space at the Dunes is new, the prac- tice was started in 1956 in Sioux City by the late Dr. Strode Hinds, whom Vezeau points out, was the second oral surgery resi- dent to train at the Univer- sity of Iowa. In fact, Dohrman, a Sioux City native, joined Hinds as a partner in the practice in 1976 after earning his D.D.S., degree at Creigh- ton University School of Dentistry and his degree in oral and maxil- lofacial surgery at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Chi- cago. Vezeau and Holton travel to Orange City, Iowa, two days a week to provide care for patients there, and Norby and Baker go to Storm Lake, Iowa, twice a week to serve that area. Vezeau said unusual to find so many maxillofa- cial surgeons this far from a teaching hospital.

He said most patients elsewhere need to travel to a larger city for those services. Oral Surgery Associates moves to the Dunes journal photos by michele linck dr. timothy Holton, above, of oral Surgery associates Pc, looks at digital x-rays on a monitor in a surgical suite of his new offices in the two rivers business center at dakota dunes. oral Surgery new offices, top right, at 301 oak tree lane are shown after a recent snow. the practice includes five oral surgeons and a staff of 25 people.

Formerly in St. tower offices, the practice moved on Sept. 1 to a new location in dakota two rivers business center, east of i-29. Oral Surgery services Dental implants Wisdom teeth extraction Dentoalveolar surgery (treatment of diseases of the teeth, soft tissue, and the jawbone.) Anesthetic Orthognathic surgery (cor- rects minor and major dental and skeletal abnormalities) socket trauma repair Jaw repositioning surgery Sinus surgery Radiographs Maxillofacial infection Members of an obstructive sleep apnea team above, dr. Patrick Vezeau, left, and dr.

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