At Anderson Dental in Kennewick, Wash., technology is used to enhance patient care in all areas of practice, from diagnosis and treatment to sterilization and record-keeping.

A look inside the two oversized treatment rooms in Dr. Loren Anderson’s state-of-the-art practice reveals nearly everything you need to know about this young dentist. A CEREC acquisition center is poised for service; dual monitors are placed to convey intraoral images to patient and doctor; and a comfortable leather chair, of the kind commonly found in living rooms, sits in the corner for family members of patients.

Though he graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry, Loren Anderson, DDS, is originally from Sunnyside, Wash., and wanted to return to the area to practice and be close to family. He contacted Patterson Dental for help and was put in touch with Bill Allen, a longtime territory representative from the Spokane Branch who invited Dr. Anderson on a tour of nearby Kennewick, Wash.

“Patterson to me had a name behind them that I could trust,” Dr. Anderson says. “Right off the bat I was impressed. They took good care of me.” Allen showed Dr. Anderson a prime area of the community where no other dentists were practicing, and in 2004, he established a two-operatory office there.