If someone hasn’t been to a dentist in a long time, my recommendation is to come in and be willing to be very pleasantly surprised. And I don’t mean that as a pat on my back. I think the evolution of dentistry in the 17 and a half years that I’ve practiced is incredible.
And so if someone hasn’t been into a dental office in 10, 20, or even 30 years, and they’re burdened by a bad experience as a child or a young adult, things are not at all like they used to be. And there are so many ways to address concerns. The anesthetics these days are much more profound.
They last much longer. The instrumentation that we have, the hand pieces, which are the drills that everybody speaks about, are far more efficient than they used to be, which means the procedures are done faster, which means the patients, it’s a less invasive procedure. And we get people out of here pretty quickly.
So everything about the office and everything that we do here is really geared to try to make it as comfortable as possible. The first appointment is always super simple. It’s going to be us just collecting some records, and that’s going to be some x-rays.
We do some digital scanning of the teeth and the mouth. We get some photos. We’re going to talk about everything.
It’s a really, really easy appointment. When someone comes in the first time, we’re not poking and prodding and doing anything. There’s no pain whatsoever.
And so a lot of people come in on their first appointment, and they walk away, and they’re pleasantly surprised that nothing hurt. There was no problems today. And we try to make it that way.
And that’s really important for people that haven’t done it in a long time. There’s nothing to lose by coming in and seeing what the possibilities are, because it’s really miraculous what’s happened to dentistry in the last 20 years.
