- What's up guys?
This is Dr. O and I'm back here with Dr. Megan.
So this is pretty cool.
First time you're on the channel.
Welcome.
Today she's going to do the first intro
to her Innovative smile of the week.
It's the one we alluded to maybe a few weeks ago
about ortho, so really cool testimonial
you'll get to see in this video as well.
The Innovative smile of the week
is basically we take and showcase a transformation
that we did throughout the week or maybe weeks past,
that was kind of tucked in our heart
and made an impact on us and the patient.
And we like to share those, so we can inspire those
that may never come here and also inspire those
who may choose to come here.
So if that's interesting to you,
definitely consider subscribing to the channel.
Give the video a thumbs up like, smash the thumbs up button.
We gotta like do that all the time.
It's like oh my gosh, I gotta keep telling people.
- You have something I gotta figure out.
- It's ridiculous how much better a video performs though.
Seriously, if you guys just do it,
I'd be really grateful.
- Thumbs up.
- So enough said with that.
Megan take it away.
Tell us a little bit about this patient.
What made her so awesome and transforming?
- Absolutely.
I have so many great patients,
so it was really hard to narrow down to one,
but this patient has really
touched a lot of our hearts here.
She's just an amazing person.
She came in with a lot of challenges in life,
health issues and a lot of things not going her way.
So she came in to see us, transformed her smile
and really I think it was about a year and a half.
She literally calls us her safe place.
We are her innovative home
and she has just inspired us in so many ways.
Her smile is now her proud partner for life
and I can't wait for you guys to see her story,
because she really is an amazing person.
She has came a long way in life
and has helped me enjoy more of what I love to do.
- Tell the viewers how you took the smile
from the initial visit, what her concerns were.
- She came to us with her primary concern
being a lot of crowding.
She had one tooth in particular,
front tooth, really set back.
It almost looked like she was missing a tooth,
but she wasn't.
So her confidence was just really low, in her smile,
which shouldn't have been,
because her personality is so huge.
It was mainly her front teeth.
She had a couple missing teeth
so we just started out by doing a simple consultation
and figured out what we needed to do.
As a general dentist, we look at the overall whole mouth,
whole oral health.
So that's something that I think is a huge benefit,
because I am focusing on the end result for years to come,
not just that short term year to two years of treatment,
especially when it involves cosmetics or missing teeth.
We are planning ahead with the ortho.
From the get go, we are looking at the whole picture.
So we really just get to focus on everything,
not just how straight the teeth look.
We care about how healthy the teeth are, the whole time.
So a good advantage, I think,
is just to have the whole time we're paying attention
to everything, especially the planning in the end,
and having a lifelong healthy smile.
- So here is this amazing patient sharing her story
about how we transformed her smile.
- Growing up, my mom was a single mom
and so she never had the finances to allow us
to take care of the things that we needed to,
as far as dental goes.
She tried; she did her best.
I had a horrible experience
the one time we went to the dentist as a kid
and I always got so sick,
so I dreaded it from every angle.
But as I grew up, it just was a smile that I hated.
I was embarrassed by it.
My favorite thing to do is laugh and enjoy life
and to have a smile that you didn't like
prevented me from living the life
I truly was destined to live.
I moved here from Colorado Springs,
to be close to family.
I was going through a difficult time in life
and was really
surrounded by a whole bunch of darkness.
So when I moved here I made a pact to myself.
I promised that I was gonna better myself
and knew my smile had to be the first thing.
So I made the decision and I started looking online
and I saw this his huge billboard,
driving up 65 and I was like,
okay, I need to check this place out.
And I knew from the moment that I walked in this building
that this was the place for me.
- It's funny, because I felt the same.
As soon as you walked in there was just a
light about you.
I think Des and I immediately connected with you
and I could tell from
every time you come in you have literature in your hand,
you're trying to read, trying to better yourself,
so it's not just your teeth that you were trying to better.
I genuinely believe your whole life,
you were just trying to get better
and we're so glad we've been able
to be a part of that for you.
- I sensed from the beginning
that you were wanting to cover up your smile.
You wouldn't show your smile like you are now.
You didn't smile as brightly
and then as we started processing the first day,
I can tell your excitement from the beginning,
getting to show off that beautiful smile
and make some changes even the first month
of seeing so much progress,
I could see your excitement each step of the way.
- Yes.
It's been huge and just
given everything that I've been through this year,
it's a journey that I would never wish upon anybody,
but in the course of it, Innovative Dental
and the staff here has made me, from day one,
feel like I am loved and wanted and never like a number.
So I now I can leave here feeling empowered
to conquer anything that's thrown in my life.
With everything from my diagnosis
of a rare medical condition,
I now have the ability to choose what can take my smile away
and I feel empowered to stand and to fight for other people
who may not have the same possibilities as me.
I'm still learning how to adjust.
I still find myself driving down the road
just looking in the mirror.
It's been a weird experience,
but one that I definitely am blessed by.
But encourage young and old.
If this is something that you've struggled with,
you're worth it and you're worth the investment
and only you can decide
how you want the outcome to be.
I would say for anybody who is just
like me and hiding behind a smile
that they're not in love with,
to really seek within what is it in life
that you want to accomplish
and why aren't you accomplishing that.
And for me it was, it was hiding by
the fact that I did not love who I was.
So I made a promise, because I knew deep down
that I was worth it.
I was worth every investment that I was going to put into me
and I knew it had to start with my smile.
I have to hide behind something that I truly love
and that people will look at every single day
then I'm not accomplishing
what I've invested and called to do
and that's to bring joy and love to this world.
So think about you and what you're worth
and make those decisions that is gonna
make you forward in your journey
and wherever you may be,
just define happiness and love for who you are.
- All right.
I hope you guys enjoyed that video,
that testimony of her transformation.
I love how she states you're worth something
and investing in yourself.
I thought that was really cool,
as my inspiring takeaway from her.
Thanks for watching this video.
Hopefully it was encouraging to you.
I thought it was awesome for you to jump on the channel
and give us all your energy and talk about
some cool transformation you made with this patient
and we have this little cheesy thing
that we do at the end of the video.
It's a lot of fun.
People just love it, right?
You're supposed to say something like ...
Well I'll just let you take it away.
Way to go.
And it's a bust.
- I know it's this, right?
- Yeah.
But you're supposed to say,
Look forward to seeing you in the next video.
Keep smiling.
Ch-ch.
- Don't worry about it.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
We look forward to seeing you guys in the next video.
Until then, you keep smiling.
It looks good on you.
Ch-ch.
- Sorry.
- That's all right.
- [Dr. O] By the way, .
That was great, see.
It's a little bit easier
if you don't think it's recording, right?
- Right.