Congrats Miss Ohio Teen USA-- Barnett Orthodontics Patient

Becoming Miss Ohio Teen USA takes more than a beautiful smile, but straight teeth are certainly an important part of the package!

We were excited to learn recently that our past patient, Bridget Linton was crowned Miss Teen Ohio 2010. Bridget is an amazing person both inside and out and has used her position this year to work with different organizations such as the American Heart Association, Girl Talk and D.A.R.E. She has visited Ohio schools to encourage children to become aware of their inner beauty and promote a positive self image.

Congratulations Bridget and keep up the amazing work as Miss Ohio Teen USA!

Follow bridget on Facebook or on her blog by clicking on the links.

Barnett Orthodontics provides braces and invisalign to adults and children in the Akron Ohio area and surrounding communities including Barberton, Norton, Manchester, Canal Fulton, Copley, Uniontown, Green, Wadsworth, North Canton, Portage Lakes, Doylestown, Coventry, and Fairlawn.

Barnett Ortho Gives Back: HELP us HELP Our Community

While "creating" smiles is a daily occurrence at Akron's Barnett Orthodontics, this month we hope to be creating smiles of a different sort, on the faces of those a little less fortunate.

In the month of October, our team will be volunteering at a local food shelter, the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank. We will be helping with the organizing and packaging of their food donations. The food bank helps to feed people and fight hunger by providing food and other essential products to food pantries, hot meal sites, shelters and other hunger-relief programs. We are certain it will make a lot of people smile!

Considering the fact that we have the opportunity to work with almost a thousand area patients, we will be collecting food items for donations to the food bank.

We would LOVE your help!

Please bring in a non-perishable food item to assist us in our efforts. The items most needed are:

• boxed cereal
• peanut butter
• canned tuna
• canned vegetables
• canned stew
• canned soups

WIN $50.00

Everyone who brings in a food donation will be entered into a drawing for a $20.00 gift card to Summit Mall.

The person who brings in the most food items will win a $30.00 gift card to Summit Mall.

We look forward to working with our patients in giving back to our community. We greatly appreciate your support!

Mouthguard Day at Barnett Orthodontics, Sept 22nd

Save your Smile- Wear a Mouthguard

Our non-profit, Mouthguard Day is upon us...Wednesday September 22nd

Cost of a custom athletic mouthguard, $20.00

All proceeds with go to support the Summa Dental Clinic of Akron

The Summa Dental Clinic sees 850 patients each month and provides a much needed service to the uninsured residents of our community

Contact our Team at Barnett Orthodontics, Barberton Ohio to learn more
330-745-4497

Shaquille O'Neal's Mouthguard costs $2995.00...

Later this summer/early fall we will be operating a one day only Mouthguard clinic. While Shaq's mouthguard costs almost $3000.00, we will be making you a similar style CUSTOM professional mouthguard at a very affordable price. The Mouthguard Clinic will be open to ANYONE, not just our patients.

Our intentions are to keep cost VERY LOW. It will probably be priced at/near a good boil-and-bite style mouthguard one could get from a sporting goods store. The mouthguard itself, however, will be significantly stronger, better and more protective than a boil-bite-mouthguard. Stay tuned for the date and time.

I came across this article about mouthguards (Big-League Chew), in the August issue of Time Magazine. It's rather entertaining and provides a quick look at the edge a good mouthguard can give to an athlete's performance.

Invisible Retainers at Akron's Barnett Orthodontics

When you finish your braces or Invisalign treatment at Barnett Orthodontics, you can instantly show off your amazing smile and not have to worry about wearing those bulky, acrylic and metal wire retainers.

By staying at the forefront of technological advancements, Barnett Orthodontics, has a 10 year history of using retainers that are glued in behind your teeth or making them out of a clear invisible plastic. These unnoticeable retainers are just as effective as the "old" Hawley type retainers but have the advantage of being completely undetectable. In fact, the clear removable retainers only have to be worn at night and if the retainer is glued in, it's ALWAYS working so you'll never risk that your teeth could move.

When your treatment is over at Barnett Orthodontics, you can show off that smile with your invisible retainers!

Contest Winner at Akron's Barnett Orthodontics

CONGRATULATIONS to Brooke, the winner of our most recent contest!
She won a family of stuffed animals.

Braces in Barberton—The Under Appreciated History of the Magic City

Barberton, Ohio, has a rich history dating back to the early 1900s. Despite our practice being located here for almost 30 years, many of our Team Members were unfamiliar with the great history of the city of Barberton. To better educate ourselves, recently, some of us attended the annual Barberton Historical Society Anna Dean Farm Walking Tour. Here are some of the highlights…

Founded by O.C. Barber, Barberton was constructed as an industrial city close to Akron and on the Ohio and Erie Canal. Diamond Match, owned and operated by O.C. Barber was located in the city and was the largest producer of matches in the United States producing 250 million matches a day. On the heels of the success of Diamond Match, O.C. Barber constructed one of the largest and most successful “super-farms” of its time. He mastered the principals of mass production, mechanization, innovation, and long-term planning. The 3,500 acre estate, with a daily operating expense of nearly $1,000, consisted of 12 acres of greenhouses, herds of top-quality livestock, several large barns, a piggery, poultry house, flour mill, concrete factory, brick works, creamery and a 40 acre park. On the highest part of the farm overlooking Barberton laid the 52 room, 50,000 square foot French Renaissance Revival mansion, reportedly described by the New York Times as the “finest mansion between New York and Chicago.” Fully completed in 1910, the mansion alone cost over $400,000 and required 18 months to finish.

Unfortunately the Barber Mansion was torn down in 1965 but many of the Barber Farm buildings have been restored and some are being used by local businesses. There is a wonderful historical society working hard to preserve the history of Barberton and Barnett Orthodontics is proud to be a business in the Barberton community.