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Preparing for a dentist appointment: what should you do?

You're almost done with your dentist appointment. Are you apprehensive about it? You aren't the only one. Most people are afraid of going to the dentist, and stress over the examination and pain they may experience. In addition to this, many people (even adults) delay going to the dentist until they already have a dental problem, or when it's getting worse.

Prepare for your dental check-up with your local Five Dock dental clinic by following these steps to ease your nerves and make your visit more comfortable:

1) We recommend that you give all our information to your dentist

It is important to have all your information at hand if you are visiting a dentist for the first time. You will need to provide information about any previous dental treatments and procedures, medications you are taking, and allergies you may have. By doing so, your dentist can be prepared for your visit and for any procedures that might be required.

2) Arrive early for your appointment

When you rush to your local Five Dock dental clinic, you can experience a stressful experience, and if you miss your appointment, you may have a while to wait for the next one. You should arrive early so that you can fill out any forms without rushing. You can also ask any questions you may have at reception. If you are nervous, being at the dental clinic early gives you time to calm down before seeing the dentist.

3) List everything you need to do

Bring a list of any questions, concerns or discomfort you are experiencing to your appointment at your local Five Dock dental clinic. This will help you remember to ask the dentist about it during your consultation.

4) Brush your teeth thoroughly

The best way to maintain proper oral hygiene is to brush twice a day, which will also allow your dentist to check how well you clean your teeth and mouth, and provide advice on how to improve this.

5) Eat before

The best thing you can do is eat a meal before your dental appointment so that you don't feel hungry and lightheaded, and in the event of any small procedures, you won't be able to eat for a few hours afterward.

Providing our patients with the best dental experience is our top priority at Soothing Care Dental, your Five Dock dental clinic. Please give us a call today if you have any questions or to schedule a consultation.

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No Wind. No Problem. The Sailing Race Must Go On.

TRIESTE, Italy — The Bora wind blows so fiercely through Trieste, a melancholic port town on the Adriatic Sea, that some sidewalks are lined with handrails. The wind maddens pedestrians, but it also fills the sails of skippers who come from all over to compete in Italy’s aquatic equivalent of the New York City Marathon.

Before this year’s race, the sleepy docks that once served as the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire buzzed with life. Olympic sailing crews, boating enthusiasts and excitement-thirsty locals packed Trieste’s piers, old world cafes and vast square facing the sea.

Everything was in place.

Except the wind.

“Not a breath of it,” Pietro Faraguna, 36, said before dawn on race day as he and members of his crew collected their boat in a neighboring town.

Last year, the 50th anniversary of the Barcolana, as the race is called, included 2,689 boats with 16,000 sailors, making it the largest regatta in the world by some counts. Mr. Faraguna and his friends finished in 15th-to-last place.

This year he was not sure whether to try for a better finish or compete for a newly introduced last-place trophy or “give up if it’s going nowhere.”

For now, Mr. Faraguna and his crew just needed to get into position at the starting line. In the calm morning air, they loaded up their secondhand boat, the Confinandante, with supplies of wine and beer, and motored toward the race’s starting line.

As one of the crew put bottles of friulano, prosecco and sauvignon in the fridge, the decades-old boat puttered past mussel farms and the Duino Castle, a 14th-century fort overlooking the Gulf of Trieste.

Mr. Faraguna, an amiable father of two and constitutional law professor, reflected on his previous 12 Barcolanas. He talked about how the thermodynamic differences caused by the shape of the coast altered wind conditions and how the Bora — named for Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind — howled down from the Julian Alps to the sea.

“But this isn’t going to happen,” Mr. Faraguna said, observing that the dark, flat water looked as motionless as an oil spill.

On the other side of the boat, Giacomo Longo, 32, received a picture from a friend already chugging a white wine spritz near the starting line. Mr. Longo checked his nautical watch and reported a meager high of 4.35 knots of wind. The crew shrugged and decided to unfurl the white-and-blue-striped sail. Some stink bugs fell from it onto the deck.

A couple hours later, the Confinandante reached a harbor near the Barcolana’s starting line and just behind the Miramare Castle, built by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, who, tradition holds, was forced to dock at this spot in 1855 by strong gusts of the Bora.

Friends of Mr. Faraguna climbed aboard, carrying more refreshments and a guitar. One of the men’s wives, Giada Dal Mas, 36, told the crew that “since there is no wind, at least try and catch some sea bass for tonight.”

The Barcolana began in 1969, when a few friends at a local sailing club organized a race with 51 boats. Since then, the winds have come and gone as the skippers race from Miramare Castle toward Slovenia and back to the finish line near Trieste’s Unity of Italy square.

Some years, the Bora has been so vicious as to break masts. Others it has been so nonexistent that boats drifted back to Trieste backward.

Over the years, the race has grown into a major enterprise. Last year, the 50th anniversary brought about 70 million euros into Trieste. Its corporate sponsor, Generali, the insurance giant founded in Trieste during the port’s glory days, slaps its name everywhere, from the race bibs on the boats to the red inflatable buoy marking the finish line.

In the days before the race, the dock in front of Trieste’s main square turns into a nautical Times Square, with beer, sausage and Barcolana merchandise vendors dwarfed by the sails of megayachts advertising luxury cars (“Sail With Land Rover”), banks, fashion brands and prosecco.

But the spirit of the race, said the Barcolana’s president, Mitja Gialuz, a 44-year-old law professor and former sailing world champion, was better captured by the hundreds of smaller sloops, ketches and traditional wooden passera fishing boats that competed, or got completely sloshed, in the big boats’ wake.

He noted how last year’s official regatta poster featured the celebrated artist Marina Abramovic declaring, amid a national crackdown on migrants, “We’re all in the same boat.” Local officials in the anti-migrant League party were furious, but Mr. Gialuz said it was just the right, inclusive message for a faded cosmopolitan city looking to shed its provincialism and make a global comeback.

“Once we became the biggest race in the world,” he said in front of a boat-sized sardine sculpture made from recycled Trieste plastic, part of the race’s expanded environmental consciousness, “we assumed a bigger responsibility.”

Still, most of this year’s participants focused mostly on the task at hand — getting their sail boats to go anywhere.

On the eve of the race, a room of skippers listened to organizers wish them “fair winds” but also remind them that “since there are very, very light winds in the forecast,” judges will be especially watchful of boats that used their engines at the opening bell.

Just before 10:30 a.m., Mr. Faraguna’s boat inched forward to the starting line of white sails, which from a distance resembled a long mountain range of snow-capped peaks. Surrounded by boats named Lady Killer, Passion Fruit and Stairway to Heaven, Mr. Faraguna waited, ready to race.

The starting cannon fired. The smoke cleared. Nothing changed.

Eventually, some of the professional crews sailing state-of-the-art ships captured enough puffs of air to move forward. The race’s organizers decided two legs of the race was enough and canceled the last two.

The Way of Life, an early favorite, won with a time of one hour, 54 minutes and 10 seconds. Mr. Faraguna’s boat hardly moved at all.

For the next few hours, Mr. Faraguna and his friends drank white wine and Union Svetlo beer and sang old Trieste folk songs about how life was better under the old empire (“We weren’t lacking pasta and chickpeas.”) They went swimming.

Early in the afternoon, with no wind in sight, they called it quits and motored back to the pier, where they happily basked in the applause directed at Way of Life, which finished another victory lap behind them.

Mr. Faraguna went home to see his wife and take a nap. As he slept, some of the last boats sprinted, or inched, to the finish line.

“Five, four, three, two, one” the crew members of Itaparica shouted with relief as they finished in 948th place. It was just shy of 5 p.m., nearly seven hours after the start. A few minutes later, the Cassiopeia II crossed and one of its passengers screamed wildly into the no wind.

Dario Motz, an official from the Italian Sailing Federation, stood on the elevated deck of a vessel recording the finish times. He looked at the ships lingering in the distance and debated with his colleagues whether they had frozen purposefully in pursuit of the loser’s cup.

“It’s a fight for last,” he said.

At 6 p.m., as Mr. Faraguna woke to play with his young children, the Xeinos, a 50-foot yacht sailed by Serbian, Montenegrin and Italian dentists, took the last-place trophy with 1,098th place.

Mr. Gialuz, the Barcolana’s president, was there to climb aboard and celebrate. This was the spirit, he said, that would reinvigorate his town.

“For a long time, Trieste was like a dark and stuffy room,” he said. “The Barcolana opens up the windows. It lets the fresh wind in.”

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This Once-Scruffy Beach Town Is South Florida’s New Real Estate Hot Spot

Alexia Fodere for The Wall Street Journal

Davin Barbanell loves Miami. He owns a home there. But Dr. Barbanell, a 40-year-old chiropractor, doesn’t want to live there anymore. “It’s too hectic,” he says.

In December, he and his wife, who have two kids, spent $1.5 million on a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 4,000 square foot waterfront house with a swimming pool overlooking a wide canal and a boat dock in a small community up the coast called Hallandale Beach. Across the street, in the same gated community, an empty lot about the same size as his property just went on sale for $1.3 million.

Little known, slightly checkered Hallandale Beach is being billed as South Florida’s next oceanfront real estate hot spot. With waterside land scarce in Miami proper, developers are looking north to this small municipality, which is halfway between Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale and has easy access to both their airports. It’s next door to the Aventura shopping mall, just over a bridge from Miami’s design district and it backs up to some of the deepest, widest canals in the area.

Davin Barbanell, a 40-year-old chiropractor, prefers living in Hallandale Beach to Miami.

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Long a scruffier cousin to its more glamorous neighbors, Hallandale has had a number of local political scandals and still has numerous strip clubs with names like Cheetah’s, earning it the nickname “Hound-ale Beach.” But as waterfront-living developments march north from Miami, Hallandale is changing.

“It’s going through a transformation like I’ve never seen before,” says Scott Patterson, senior vice president of EWM Realty International, who has been a real estate broker in the area for over two decades. The median sold price for homes above $1 million in Hallandale Beach grew 19% in the fourth quarter of 2018 to $1.8 million compared with a year earlier, according to multiple listing services data. In December alone the median sold price for those homes was 42% higher than December 2017, significantly greater than the 11.4% increase in the median sold price of single family homes over a million in Miami during the same time period.

Unlike the nearby town of Sunny Isles Beach, home of the Trump International Beach Resort and the Porsche Design Tower, where the laws favor vertical development, Hallandale Beach hasn’t sprouted back-to-back enormous luxury condo towers yet. It’s also not zoned exclusively for single family homes like Golden Beach, a community just south, where Tommy Hilfiger’s estate is listed for $27.5 million and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim recently built a new mansion. Hallandale Beach is somewhere in between, with a mix of homes and low-rise condo buildings. Its big attraction is the thoroughbred racing and casino complex called Gulfstream Park.

Hallandale Beach is famous for Gulfstream Park, a racetrack and casino.

Alexia Fodere for The Wall Street Journal

Now, young families with strollers roam the streets of Hallandale Beach. A new high school is going up next door in Aventura, where Turnberry Isle Resort, once a staid adult playground, has become a JW Marriott and will soon have a water park. Hallandale Beach’s Diplomat Golf Resort & Spa is set to become the SLS Resort Residence & Marina with a Greg Norman-designed gold course.

It’s part of a trend north from the increasingly crowded city of Miami, which has benefited from an influx of high-income individuals from higher tax states following a decision by Congress to reduce the ability to take deductions from federal returns. There’s also been an increase in foreign buyers due in part to instability in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.

Hallandale Beach is halfway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Alexia Fodere for The Wall Street Journal

What’s happening in Hallandale Beach is like what happened in parts of Brooklyn, N.Y.—a linear move out from an urban center, says Shahab Karmely, principal of New York based KAR Properties, which is developing 2000 Ocean, a luxury condo building in Hallandale Beach that’s selling units from about $2.8 million to $12 million for penthouses.

In the Hallandale Beach neighborhood of Golden Isles, a gated community where anyone can legally drive past the security booth with a wave, modest homes that used to house retirees are being torn down and replaced with large houses, a mix of spec and custom builds.

Eran Israel, 46, bought one of these new houses in Golden Isles in March for $3.6 million. It has six bedrooms, eight bathrooms and is 6,400 square feet—something he says he’d never get in Golden Beach, where he also looked. Mr. Israel, who works in real estate, commutes to Atlanta every two weeks, which he finds easier to do from Hallandale Beach because of its proximity to Fort Lauderdale airport. He can also walk to the synagogue from his house, something that he says has attracted many in the Jewish community to the neighborhood.

It was the ability to have a boat right outside his house that drew Marcos Bordoni, 39, who owns a wholesale perfume business, to Golden Isles from Miami. He bought a house on a third of an acre there for $850,000 in 2009, tore it down and built a 3,964-square-foot, four-bedroom, five-bathroom house there in 2013 for about $900,000.

Marcos Bordoni owns this house that sits aside a canal in the Golden Isles neighborhood of Hallandale Beach.

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Mr. Bordoni is now about to begin construction on a house on one of the other two lots he owns in the neighborhood, which he says he will live in once it’s finished. He also bought his parents a three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,065-square-foot condo in 2013 in an oceanfront complex called The Beach House. He goes to Miami for dinner occasionally, but says he would never move back. “It’s too noisy and there’s too much traffic,” he says.

Even though Troy Ippolito, 43, owner of Troy Dean Interiors, grew up in Hallandale Beach and has built over 300 homes in South Florida, until recently he was looking for property in Fort Lauderdale, attracted by the restaurants and nightlife. But he chose Hallandale Beach because it was a lot closer to Miami, where goes for work and fun. He paid $1.5 million for his childhood home, a 6,000-square-foot home on the canal in Golden Isles and has designed a new contemporary house to replace it.

Troy Ippolito, 43, behind the house he grew up in along a canal in Hallandale Beach.

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Real estate agents say that despite the recent activity, waterfront Hallandale Beach properties sell at about a third of what a similar property would in Miami. The least expensive lot in Golden Beach is about twice the lot price in Golden Isles, while the least expensive house in Golden Beach is currently $2.3 million for a three-bedroom, three-bathroom on 2,660 square feet. In Hallandale Beach, there are still numerous low-end condo buildings, many popular with snowbirds from Canada, where a one-bedroom, one-bathroom 870-square-foot unit sells for about $300,000.

Larry Grillo, a 59-year-old dentist who bought his then-four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 4,500-square-foot house in Golden Isles for $1.6 million in 2004, isn’t planning on moving even if it gets more crowded. He has a nice spot on the canal, which he couldn’t find anywhere else in the area for that price, he says. “It’s a sleepy little place, off the mainstream. People don’t know about it,” he says.

Rafaela Simoes, co-owner of Miami-based interior design firm 2id Interiors, agrees. She’s worked on two luxury home projects in Golden Isles in the past year. “I live nearby and I’d never even heard of it,” she says.

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This Once-Scruffy Beach Town Is South Florida’s New Real Estate Hot Spot