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March 23
Michael and Jackie Sandweiss wel-
come with much love the birth of their
daughter, Madeline Sara. Madeline
was welcomed home by big sister .
Emma, 3. Proud
grandparents are
Donna and John
Sackler of West
Palm Beach, Fla.,
Paul Seiden of Long
Beach, N.Y., Judie
and Mort Plotnick
of West Bloomfield
and Gail and Henry
Sandweiss
Sandweiss of West
Bloomfield. Madeline Sara was named
in loving memory of both maternal
grandmothers named Sarah.
March 9
Robert and Elizabeth (Parent)
DeRoven of Berkley are thrilled to
announce the birth of their daughter,
Marley Reese (Rivka). Marley was
welcomed home by her big sister
Clarissa. Very proud grandparents
are Roseanne and Barry Miller of
Farmington Hills,
Marshall and
Vicky DeRoven of
Farmington Hills
and Michele Parent
of Berkley. Also
sharing in their joy
are great-grand-
parents Lee and
DeRoven
Iry Meyerson, Rose
Marie and Dennis
McWilliams and Lillian DeRoven. She
is also the great-granddaughter of the
late Cal DeRoven. Marley is named
in loving memory of her great-great-
grandmother Rose Meyerson and her
grandfather Ron Parent.
March 1
Joanna (Serman) and Jonathan
Dwoskin of Huntington Woods are
delighted to announce the birth of
their daughter, Aria Daisy (Ahava
Chaya). She was wel-
comed home by her
adoring big brother
Jacob, 3. Sharing in
their happiness are
grandparents Jeffrey
and Linda Serman
and Marc and Chicki
Dwoskin. Proud
Dwoskin
great-grandparents
are Elaine Serman
and Stan and Jinny Warren. Aria is
named in loving memory of her late
grandmother Wendy Dwoskin.
Madeline Rene Hoffman, daughter
of Rhonda and Paul Hoffman, will
become a bat mitzvah Thursday, June
29, on Mt. Masada in Israel. She is the
sister of Jordan
and grand-
daughter of
Adele Hoffman
and the late
Max Hoffman,
Dorothy Altman
and the late
Ronald Altman.
Maddie
Hoffman
attends Orchard
Lake Middle
School in West
Bloomfield. For her mitzvah project,
she found it meaningful to collect
funds in order to purchase and donate
tiaras, nail polish and small toys to
Queen for A Day.
Rachel Germaine Kahn of
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London,
England, will celebrate her bat mitzvah
on Saturday, July 1, with a Havdalah
service at her home. She is the daugh-
ter of Reva and Robert Kahn, formerly
of Detroit and Zurich, Switzerland,
and sister to Daniel and Benjamin.
Proud American grandmother is
Sally Soberman; Swiss grandfather
is Alfred Kahn.
She is also the
granddaughter of
the late Nathan
Soberman and
the late Penina
Kahn.
Rachel is
involved with
the charity Ilan
Kahn
in Israel and has
twinned her bat
mitzvah with another girl, Natalie,
who lives at the Emunah Sarah Herzog
Children Center in Afula, Israel.
Alexander Marshall Levine
(Avraham ben Moshe HaCohen) of
Farmington Hills will be bar mitzvah
Saturday, July 1, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue. He is the son of Naomi
and Robert Levine, brother of Jeremy
and the grandson of Judy Blustein
of Southfield and Rita and Bernard
Levine of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He
is also the grandson of the late Rabbi
Allan Marshall
Blustein.
Alex is a stu-
dent at Hillel
Day School of
Metropolitan
Detroit in
Farmington Hills
and his mitzvah
project is the
Levine
Baby teeth, also known as primary teeth
or deciduous teeth, serve an important
purpose. In addition to their functional pur-
pose, they serve as nature's space main-
tainers for future permanent teeth.
As a general rule when a permanent
tooth is beginning to erupt, the baby tooth
it replaces should either fall out, be wiggled
out or removed by the dentist. Otherwise Nelson Hersh DDS, MS
Licensed Specialist
the baby tooth may deflect the permanent
tooth into the incorrect position. If removing
a baby tooth will encourage the permanent tooth to erupt in the
ideal position, then it is time for removal.
The orthodontist should also be keeping an eye out for asym-
metry, meaning that if one baby tooth is gone and the corre-
sponding baby tooth on the other side is not, it may allow teeth to
begin shifting and cause midline deviations.
If permanent front teeth do not have enough room to erupt
properly, it is often advisable to remove certain of the baby teeth
in sequence. Some advantages of this are to minimize severe
crowding and rotations of teeth, reduce chances of decay, etc.,
but the taking out of baby teeth does not permanently solve the
problem. As far as dental space is concerned, extracting now
sometimes is "robbing Peter to pay Paul," but it can be one of
the kindest procedures we have found for guiding the permanent
teeth into a more normal relationship.
The orthodontist becomes involved because a master plan
must be established. If the baby teeth do not allow enough room
for the future permanent teeth, then it must be decided whether
more space can be made to accommodate the teeth, (such as an
expander) unless this jeopardizes the stability or the dentition.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to con-
tact Dr. Hersh at the newest state of the art orthodontic facility in
West Bloomfield/Commerce Township at (248) 926-4100.
NELSON HERSH, DDS, MS
Licensed Specialist in
West Bloomfield I Commerce Twp.
(248) 926-4100
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