- Just a little bit of background story for me.
I was raised by a single mom
and we didn't have dental insurance.
So by the time I would have a tooth that would painful
and I would go to the dentist,
the option was root canal or pull the tooth.
There was never any preventative health
and that's the one thing I love about Innovative
is that it's all about preventative health.
When I came in that day,
I was so surprised by so many things
about the office and about Dr. Olsen.
There was no condemnation for,
oh my gosh,
look how bad your teeth are
and what have you done your whole life
or not done to get to this point?
It was you know what,
we're gonna start right here,
and we're gonna move forward,
and we're gonna give you a beautiful smile.
And it was something my whole life
that I felt like I needed to fix.
But there was, when I was working and had dental insurance.
You know, then there's kids, and there's work,
and there's life and things are crazy.
And one thing that made a difference.
My children are now grown and I thought,
I think I need to do something for myself
and to improve on my confidence
and how I feel about myself.
I hate that I haven't had a good smile
my whole first part of my life,
but I'll have it the whole rest of my life.
But my goal from the beginning was
I don't care how long it takes,
I'm not in this to get a quick fix,
I want it to be done right.
The end goal was I had a front tooth
that was discolored from an injury.
I really wanted that tooth fixed
and Dr. Olsen said to me
in a very professional way,
why would we just fix that one tooth
when we can fix your whole smile?
We start with Invisalign.
And so I was told, you know,
once we have your teeth straight,
then we'll talk about, you know,
the next step which will be veneers.
We decided on six veneers for the top
and I came in that morning
and you know, came in with this smile
I didn't wanna look at
and left, you know, a few hours later
with the veneers and just being very happy
with how it looked.
I think it was a great thing to think of it as a process.
You could have this one tooth
or you could even have your upper teeth be white
but if you have a mouth full of crooked teeth,
you're not gonna be happy.
And I think that was something that
he told me and Amanda told me from the beginning
was we want you to be happy.
But when he put that before picture
up on the screen,
I just was amazed.
I think that when you don't have a good smile
and you don't like your teeth,
you just don't look.
You just don't look at it,
you don't look in the mirror,
you avoid it, you don't smile in pictures,
and so when I saw that before
and when I saw the after it just didn't
seem real to me at first.
But my family, I don't think they realized either
what a difference it was gonna make
and they were very excited.
I saw family from out of town
and that was the first thing they noticed.
I've been more surprised by the people
who didn't know I was having anything done
that I've run into that are just amazed
and people notice.
If somebody was considering having Invisalign,
having veneers, having cosmetic dental work done,
I think that the first thing that
people think about is cost
and I would say to them
I was able to use my flexible spending account
and it became very affordable
and I think part of that process was doing it,
you know, in steps.
Innovative Dental works with you,
however you need to do it,
to make sure that you are comfortable with,
you know, payment or how to, you know,
get the process done in a timely manner
for your insurance or, you know,
there's people who will work with you to,
you know, look at your plan.
But I would say don't let cost be
the thing that holds you back
because it's something that is so worth it
and you can't really put a price on your smile,
your confidence, just the way you feel
about laughing and smiling and you know,
life's too short to hide your smile
or to hide your face
and I would encourage anybody to have a consultation,
see if it's something that would work for them
and to definitely do it because
it is truly life changing.