FRIDAYEXTRA !
The Daily Astorian
Friday, February 13, 2015
Weekend Edition
KLEMP’S NEW TOOTH MILL
A CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT
Players from
two elementa-
ry-school-age
teams play
futsal, a type
of indoor soc-
cer, at the As-
toria Armory
on a recent
Tuesday night.
DAMIAN MULINIX
EO Media Group
Futsal spins
into Astoria
Indoor soccer played at the Armory
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Dental Assistant Juliann Koehnke shows the finished digital model of Vickie Daniels’ tooth created by the Sirona Crec
MC X camera.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
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TODAY’S
etting a new crown used
to be a multiweek or-
deal for Vickie Daniels.
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said Daniels, who used
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a mold of her teeth. She’d be
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return weeks later for the new
crown, once it was manufac-
tured and shipped in. And
then it often needed adjust-
ments, taking even more of
her time.
Now Daniels lays back and
lets Dr. Dennis Kemp’s new
Cerec MC X automated mill
do the work, spending 90 to
120 minutes on the entire pro-
cess, from the 3-D imaging of
her mouth to her new crown
being put in.
“What we used to do was
take impressions, send it to
the lab, and three weeks lat-
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Klemp. “Now our impression
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Klemp’s dental assistant
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Juliann Koehnke runs the Dr. Dennis Klemp shows Vickie Daniels the finished digital model of her tooth created
See TOOTH MILL, Page 3C
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David Plechl, a local soc-
Futsal: (from Wikipedia): cer enthusiast, who is also
“A variant of association a main player into bringing
football that is played on the Futsal phenomenon to
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played indoors. It can be
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According to Plechl,
sop County, where the Low-
er Columbia Youth Soccer Futsal makes for a very fast,
Association (LCYSA) has very technical game with
started a coed Youth Futsal more scoring and a lot more
League for kids in kinder- touches on the ball “in a lot
less time than outdoor
garten through the
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eighth grade.
And if it’s Clat-
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sop County, and
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if it’s soccer-relat-
fall Futsal League
ed, you know Jerry
season, and be-
Boisvert is involved.
gan winter play Jan.
The former Astoria
20. Games are played
Tuesday nights at the Astoria High School soccer coach is
Armory, with a Men’s Open one of the several volunteers
League running Sunday nights who is helping get Futsal off
the ground locally.
at Star of the Sea School.
“Futsal is a hugely popu-
See FUTSAL, Page 4C
lar sport in many soccer-mad
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astoria
by the Sirona Crec MC X camera. The digitized process allows Klemp to create a tooth
impression, create a custom crown and place it in one visit.
The Cerec MC X
sits in Dr. Dennis
Klemp’s wait-
ing room. The
machine creates
custom crowns
out of ceramic.
DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group
JOSHUA BESSEX
The Daily Astorian
The Futsal ball is about half the size of a regulation soc-
cer ball and is less bouncy, so when players like Kaden
Burch take a header, it doesn’t bounce out of the gym.
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