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I’ve been coming to Dr. Drew for almost 10 years. We moved here and previously I hadn’t had an opportunity to establish a relationship with a dentist over a longer term. My job had me moving around different places every two or three years. And this is my first opportunity to start using preventive dentistry versus reactive dentistry, which way I was doing in the past. I started coming to him with a dental emergency and he was so effective that after that I said, “I’m going to continue coming to him and I’m going to listen to him and I’m going to follow his advice on preventive measures, regular cleanings, checkups, et cetera,” and it’s paid off in dividends.

My dental emergency kind of manifested itself in pain, which is normally how I would handle my dental work. I wasn’t really attuned to a preventive dentistry. I was attuned to reactive. I would go if I had discomfort, but other than that, I usually didn’t go to the dentist regularly. I had this discomfort, I reported it to my wife, and then she took the next step to get me the appointment. And it was rather complicated. It was a result of some dental work that had been done previously, that lacked his skills.

He came in, repaired it, laid out a plan. The plan included some implants, which I had never even… I don’t think I’d heard of implants before. So he walked me down the path of obtaining the implants. And basically from that experience, I continued coming back to him. It’s been a few years since I’ve had any really serious problems, primarily because I’m following the preventative dentistry that he’s recommended and the hygienists have recommended. And I can’t say enough about the hygienists. Each time I go in, they might point out a particular part of my mouth where the plaque’s building up, something along those lines and assign me to work in that particular area during the next six months. And in fact, on my last checkup, they recommended that I try using the Waterpik. And that’s the phase that I’m in right now. I’ve added this using the Waterpik to my dental routine.

My wife did not like going to the dentist before she met Dr. Drew, now it is not an issue. He makes her feel comfortable, and again, the precision that he does with his dental work, the custom fitting and stuff, he is so meticulous that he will not rest until she is absolutely comfortable. She doesn’t leave the chair until she is feeling absolutely comfortable with what he has done. And so there’s no calling back or saying, gee whiz, we need to come back and do a refit or something like that, because he knows with the Parkinson’s how important it is to get her work done right and let her go out and live.

She has very soft teeth and so she preferred to go to a dentistry in her hometown, and unfortunately the process materials they used over a period of years, decayed under the crowns, which presented a unique challenge for Dr. Drew, and trying to save the teeth wasn’t an option, and so he had to remove a number of teeth down below, and then work with her to put implants and come up with a very unique in place, it’s almost a full plate, and the fit is perfect. My wife has not had any issues with it. He checks her four times a year and make sure the fit is good and everything. And now we’re working on an upper plate that he’s having custom made as we speak for my wife. Hopefully she’ll be able to save at least the forefront teeth and he’s custom fitting it.

Again with my wife’s unique needs, he has reached out to her neurologist that he knows, and has asked on how he can make her comfortable so that he can do the work as quickly as possible, efficiently, and without any pain. And that I really appreciate.

The first visit was very involved and they were so nice too because I didn’t know that the first visit took as long as it did and I only budgeted out with my sitter for an hour. And they were just like, “No worries, come back for the rest of it when you can.” They weren’t like, “Well, this is you have to stay.” It was just like, “Oh, no worries. Come right back.” So I felt very that they were just so nice about that, my error, and it was just so many pictures and machines I’ve never even seen. I was just blown away by how in-depth the first visit was. I felt like they got the whole shebang. So it was really, really neat.

It wasn’t just a cleaning and a see ya. It was let’s look and make sure what’s going to happen in the future and what’s going on in your mouth. It was really neat. The dental hygienist was so friendly. We talked a lot about my past, my family, my life. We just chatted for a little bit first and I had questions for her and I felt like I got to know her. The cleaning was painless, quick and they just have so much technology. I don’t know the words for any of it, but I just felt like they knew every single thing that was going on with every tooth and they got my history. Then you go into this other room and they take pictures and that was really neat and then you go back in and you’re done. It was easy. Everybody was on top of it.

You know what? They’re so friendly and nice and they treat everybody with dignity. It’s just not me that’s come here. I have a son that needed a lot of work and his teeth look amazing and the dignity they treated him with, it made him feel so special. My son’s basically got a whole new set of teeth and usually when people have new sets of teeth you can tell and his teeth are perfect and you can’t tell. They’re amazing.

It’s improved his quality of life so much. He feels so much better about himself. He knew exactly what was expected of him. It took a while because Dr. Drew does everything to perfection and he makes sure it’s perfect. They take time to get to know you and what your needs are. They’re friendly and helpful. They want the best for you. They make everybody that comes in feel like they’re liked and wanted.

I had had braces as a child and was really bad about wearing my retainers. So my teeth had kind of gotten not terribly crooked, but crooked to a point that I wasn’t really happy with my smile. So Dr. (Drew) recommended Invisalign and I was able to really quickly get my teeth straight and now have a smell that I’m really happy with.

There are a lot of options out there right now for teeth straightening and the Invisalign was appealing to me because it was clear. As an adult having a braces option that isn’t very noticeable was nice. But I also liked the ability to be able to come in every couple of weeks and have Dr. Drew check on my progress, make sure that my teeth were still in addition to getting straight healthy. Those were kind of the main things that led me to choose to do Invisalign here.

I love my smell now. Like I said, it was one of those things that I think that people who knew me never noticed that my teeth weren’t very straight, but I noticed it. So it just makes me feel better about myself to have straight white teeth now.