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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
in the
garden
Ŷ
with
Pamela Fleming
Q: As the downtown Seaside gardener and land-
scaper, how do you keep flowers in bloom during the
summer months?
A: The gardens are irrigated, thank goodness, water
is essential during the summer! When we plant in the
spring, we side dress with slow release organic fertiliz-
er. We keep the flower heads groomed which extends
the flowering time. The gardens are 90 percent perenni-
als and shrubs with small groupings of annual color on
very visible intersections and major spots like the Turn-
around, so there is constant color and interest.
Q: During the winter, what are your activities?
A: After the initial cleanup once the freeze comes,
there is weeding and composting, pruning of trees and
shrubs, and division and replanting and rearranging for
better success and simplification.
Q: What was your biggest disaster?
A: Besides planting 12 hills of Zucchini?
Q: What is your favorite success?
A: I would have to say the Seaside Downtown Gar-
dens. They are near and dear to my heart, in constant
development, challenging, and viewed, enjoyed and
shared by many people.
Q: Are there certain plants you stay away from?
A: Plants that are too much trouble, or work. The
ones that are susceptible to disease and infestation,
and ‘thugs’ — plants that do not play nicely with oth-
ers and won’t stay in their place! Also in the downtown
gardens, visibility and space are an issue. This can be
accomplished with pruning and planting appropriate-
ly.
Q: Where do you get your inspiration?
A: I became interested in gardening when I was a
child. I always enjoyed working in the yard and gardens
with my father, and then our neighbors’ yards. When I
Photos by JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Pam Fleming, of Natures Helper Landscaping
Inc., works on a planter along Broadway in Seaside Feb. 4.
Lora VanNortwick is in the background. RIGHT: Pam Flem-
ing, center, alongside Lora VanNortwick, right, and Dustin
Fleming, left, of Natures Helper Landscaping in Seaside.
was on my own, I was really interested in edible garden-
ing. My first garden had 12 hills of zucchini! Ornamental
landscape design and gardening became my first job
after having children and while I was a mom at home. It
surprised me that people wanted to pay me to garden
for them. Twenty-six years later, after studying Horticul-
tural Therapy and getting my Oregon State Landscape
License, I am constantly inspired by the never ending
availability and opportunity to find and try new materi-
als, study the work of others, research, go to landscape
shows, and talk to local gardeners and other landscape
professionals.
Pamela Fleming is the landscaper for the city of Seaside
and owner of Natures Helper Landscape Inc. Her staff in-
cludes Dustin Fleming, Dave Quinton, Lora VanNortwick
and Dick Scott.
Tooth mill: ‘It outlines perfectly where the tooth is’
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Cerec’s Omnicam scanner,
taking photos 17 times per
second, around Daniels’ open
mouth, as a 3-D image of
her teeth forms on a monitor
above, including the upper left
premolar needing a crown.
Klemp and his assistants
design the crown on the com-
puter, down to the room need-
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“It outlines perfectly where
the tooth is,” said Klemp,
adding that he hasn’t had to
do adjustments of crowns and
other implants like with the
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fect.”
The Cerec MC X, which
sits in Klemp’s main lobby,
looks like a standing tool-
box, topped by an automated
mill/3-D printer for making
crowns, inlays, onlays, ve-
neers and bridges. Koehnke
pops open the plastic case of
the mill, places a block of por-
celain on a stand, closes the lid
and presses start. The Cerec,
backed by blue lighting when
it’s working, uses the 3-D im-
age of the tooth created in the
exam room, its two metal burs
creating a crown in anywhere
from eight to 18 minutes. The
backlight on the Cerec turns
green, and Koehnke knows
it’s ready.
“The patients like not hav-
ing to have temporaries and
have a one-stop shop,” said
Koehnke, who takes the fresh-
ly milled crown to be baked
and glazed before it’s bonded
into Daniels’ tooth.
Koehnke said customers
are starting to ask their den-
tists whether they have ma-
chines like the Cerec, so they
don’t need multiple visits for
crowns and other implants.
“And you don’t have to bite
that slimy stuff that you used
to bite,” said Daniels, who can
watch her crown being de-
signed and manufactured be-
fore it enters her mouth.
Klemp sends Koehnke
and her coworkers, known
as expanded functions dental
assistants, through a course
in Tualatin to learn to use the
Cerec. Currently using it for
crowns, he hopes to expand
its use into creating other
more complex implants, and
to hook it up to his practice’s
CT scanner.
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Dr. Dennis Klemp runs small camera through Vickie Daniels’ mouth while dental assistant Juliann Koehnke tracks the
image on the monitor. The camera allows the computer to create a three-dimensional model of a crown that can be
manufactured in the office.
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
The Cerec MC X cuts the ceramic crown out of water.
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The cut crown sits in the Cerec MC X machine after being cut.
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