Welcome to Our Lake Bluff Dentist Page
At Lake Bluff Dental Care, our dentists, led by Linda R. Salmon, DDS, are committed to helping you enjoy a healthy, gorgeous smile. Our dentists take the time to focus on you and your family and welcome all ages to enjoy quality dental care at our peaceful dental practice in Lake Bluff. You can trust that our dentists will take the time to evaluate your current oral health situation and carefully listen to your concerns before crafting a treatment plan tailored to your specific needs and goals. Dr. Salmon and her staff are passionate about helping you discover a smile you love with our dental treatments.
Keep reading to learn more about our fantastic team of doctors!
Where or where is Lake Bluff Dental Care????
You might be strolling down the main Scranton Boulevard for a Lake Bluff Brewery Block Party, Prarie Pub's Live concerts in the Gazebo or the Scranton Alley, during any of the many Parades down Scranton Avenue, possibly while strolling around and looking at the Vintage and Antique cars at the annual Museum Car Show, or any other number of events that happen right in front of our office!!
Our office has been a dental office for over 60 years, but in 2023, Dr. Linda Salmon took over after the dentist retired and made sure with her special touches and signage that you would notice the office. We have many locals popping their heads in and saying " I never knew this was a dental office, how convenient, can I make an appointment?"
Dr. Salmon has been a dentist for almost 30 years, and she has been in the dentistry industry since 1985. She started in high school and found her passion was dentistry and never looked back. Dr. Salmon has an amazing background of working in dentistry. She worked at University of Illinois in the Oral Surgery Dept., she has done volunteer work in the Dominican Republic doing surgical Implants and Extractions, she has worked in many offices early in her career with different dentists and specialists. She has seen almost everything possible in dentistry. She is amazing at diagnosing any dental problems or issues you may have or even directing you to a specialist who can help you. She works very closely with many specialists in the area who have a high regard for Dr. Salmon's dental history and wealth of knowledge.
Lake Bluff Dental Care needed a woman dentist to give it that special warmth it was lacking.
She stays at the top of dentistry by attending or watching by Zoom many hours of dental continuing education every month. She makes sure that the office is on the cutting edge of dentistry to give her patients the very latest and the best care in dentistry.
Dr. Salmon and her wonderful staff have terrific chairside manner. The staff will help you relax. They can put on any music that you would like to hear while you are in for a dental procedure. Give you a blanket, headphones, ear plugs, anything to make you more comfortable. Just ask.
Dr. Salmon likes to make sure all her patients feel like family and friends.
We have made the office cheery and happy. Please stop in to say hello and see all our changes.
We hope to see you soon and that you will join our dental family-if you haven't already. Call 847-234-0557
Come say hello to our staff Jessie, Julie, Nina, Gloria, Melissa...
Dr. James R. MacNaughton, DDS
Dr. James MacNaughton retired February 2023.
Dr. James MacNaughton has retired since early 2023.
He is now working at Marquette University as a Dental Professor at the Dental school.
All of his patients were being temporarily seeing Dr. Knudson.
Now that Dr. Knudson has retired in August of 2023 Dr. Salmon has been taking great care of Dr. MacNaughtons patients.
For a short time Grace, who was Dr. MacNaughton's receptionist, came back to Lake Bluff Dental Care to help Dr. Salmon with all of the new systems
that she had put into place. New X-ray machines, new intra-oral cameras, new software, etc.
Grace said she would just come back to help until we were able to find the right shoes to take her place. Grace retired in March 2024.
If you wanted to contact Dr. MacNaughton let Dr. Salmon know and she can put in touch with him or if you send a retirement card, she will make sure it gets to him.
Congrats Dr. MacNaughton on your next phase in Dentistry.
Dr. Bruce L. Wolf, DDS
In memoriam
Dr. Bruce L. Wolff-Obituary from 2020
Passed into the Lord's loving arms May 8, 2020 in Scottsdale, AZ after a twelve-year battle with Parkinson's Disease. Bruce was born in Chicago, December 1, 1938 to Vernon Sr. and Gertrude
Wolff. Bruce was predeceased by his older brother Vernon Jr. (Florence) Bruce is survived by his loving wife Sharon (McCormick), four children Bruce-Jackie, Julie Roush (John) Brian and Derek.
He is also survived by four grandchildren, Kathryn, Emily Spencer and Pascale, two great grand children, brother Dennis (Linda) and many nieces and nephews.
Bruce graduated from Steinmetz High School Class of 1956. In 1963 he graduated U of I Dental School. In 1966, Bruce moved to Lake Bluff Illinois with his wife Sharon where they lived for forty
years. At the same time, he founded Lake Bluff Dental Associates where he practiced dentistry until his retirement in 2006. In 2006, Bruce and Sharon retired to Scottsdale Arizona. During this
time, Bruce volunteered with Our Lady Of Joy prison ministry and St. Vincent de Paul aide to the homeless for twelve years.
Dr. Salmon have been seeing his patients. If you need any dental help or have a question, please call the office for an appointment. We love hearing your stories of when Dr. Wolf was at Lake
Bluff Dental Care. Especially all the kiddo stories of going up the stairs to his other dental offices.