A lot of people are quietly afraid of the dentist, and that fear has a cost. Appointments get postponed, small problems grow, and sometimes a smile slips away before someone feels ready to ask for help. WSVN 7News followed one of those stories — a young woman who had lost most of her teeth by her early twenties, and with them, much of her confidence.

My surgical partner, Dr. Kroum Dimitrov, and I offered to rebuild her smile completely — the first robotically-assisted full-jaw reconstruction in our area. He placed the titanium implants with digital, robot-guided precision; I designed and placed her new teeth. When a surgery is this involved, the planning is everything.

The more things you know beforehand, the less likely you’ll have complications.

A reconstruction like this runs around $70,000. We did it at no cost — not for attention, but because she needed it and we were able to help. After one long day in the chair, she left with a new smile and, just as meaningfully, without the fear that had kept her away for years. Watching someone see themselves in the mirror again is the part of this work I won’t forget.

Most people will never need a day like that — and the whole point of how we practice is to keep it that way, catching problems early so that rebuilding a smile from the ground up or replacing teeth with implants, never becomes the only road left. But if fear or embarrassment has kept you out of the chair, there’s no judgment here — only a plan to get you comfortable again. That can start with a single visit

Keep Smiling,

Dr. Yenile Pinto

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