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To Our Patients,

We understand and deeply respect that you may be concerned about Coronavirus in public places… even at our state-of-the-art sterilized office.

At Great Smiles Dental Care, I want to assure you that our office has even further heightened our already rigid sterilization safeguards and office cleaning standards to minimize the possibility of transmission to our outstanding team…or to you, our valued patient. We have always far exceeded all standards for sterilization and patient care.

Our first priority is always the health and well-being of our patients. And that is a priority we take extremely seriously, even with the current disruptions we’re all experiencing.

Your dental health remains important to us as it plays such an important role in your overall health.

When you visit our office, you’ll see we’ve taken all the necessary steps to ensure you have the best patient experience possible. If you are experiencing any symptoms, please do not come to our office and call us to reschedule your appointment. We care for you and all our patients. If we see any symptoms in our patients or our team, we will reschedule the appointment on the spot and send that individual home.

It is just one more way that we can show our high level of care for you…and for everyone in our community. We very much look forward to seeing you, your family, and your friends very soon.

Sincerely,

Dr. Eric Wendelschafer
Great Smiles Dental Care

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Karen F. talks about the calming Family Care you can expect from Great Smiles Dental Care Read Transcript

I love coming to Great Smiles Dental Care because I used to be extremely afraid. I went a couple of times, and I had a real bad experience, so I just gave up until I came here. The moment I walked through the door, it was great. Like talking to the receptionist on the phone when I made my appointment, meeting everybody every step of the way, to get my X-rays, then my cleaning, meeting the doctor. So, it was really good.
Dr. Wendelschafer is amazing. When he talks to you, he talks to you like a person. He doesn't talk down to you. He explains things and he gives you hope because when I came, I had none. I thought it was really, really bad, and he's like, "It's not as bad as you think it is, and everything's doable," and that led to me bring in my daughter. She's a teenager and she's extremely shy, but she loves him and he's really gentle, and I think that's important. I appreciated the way the team here communicated with my daughter. Spoke to her with respect. Always a smile.
Well, she's really wanting to make sure she has a good smile. When we came back and got a chipped tooth fixed, so that really put her over the top. She smiles all the time and then she says, "Can you believe how good my teeth look?" At Great Smiles Dental Care, you can expect to be greeted with a smile and treated with respect and to return because you're going to love it.

Karen F talks about how Great Smiles Dental Care cured her Dental Anxiety Read Transcript

I had to have dental surgery a long time ago, like 20 years ago, and I was pregnant and so I couldn't have anesthesia. I had to have my wisdom teeth cracked out because one was abscessed, two of them were abscessing. It was very painful and it hurt. And then, when I moved here, I had a dental emergency, and it didn't turn out good. It was a really bad. Bad reaction to the medication that they used, and then it wasn't done right and the doctor got frustrated, the surgeon. So, it was bad, and I swore off, that was it. I swore dentists off. And then, I noticed I was having some issues, and so I asked a really good friend of mine. She comes here, so she had an appointment, and I asked her if I could come with her and she said absolutely.
So I followed her over here so I knew how to get here. We came in and that's what made me come back. That moment right there. It was more than just being sold. I was comfortable. I saw how everybody interacted, and they interacted with me like that without knowing me. From the time you come in, from the receptionist and whoever you see for whatever issues that you have, it works out really well because everybody knows their job and they communicate very well. It just feels like a family. I literally cooked for them the second time I came. I don't care where you're going, you're missing out if you're not coming here.

Debra T. talks about how it feels to go to Great Smiles Dental Care Read Transcript

Oh, I love coming here because every experience is a great one. From the moment you walk in that door, you see smiling faces at the desk, they greet you. The care that they give you is just above anything I've ever experienced before, and so that just sort of draws you in. That warm greeting that just lets you know, okay, this is starting out to be a very good experience, and then it just builds on that. I think that that's very important. Just that person sitting at the front desk and what kind of image that they will convey on behalf of the office.
Dr. W is an amazing dentist. He knows how to put you at ease. If you come in with nerves or anxiety from past experiences, he just really knows how to put you at ease, and they just treat you very well here. When he comes into the room, you feel like you're the only patient in the office. You know that there are other people there, and you feel like you're the only patient. He comes in, he's genuinely concerned not only about what's going on with the inside of your mouth but really you as a person. So, conversations about the family – he always asks about how the family is doing and how you're doing. So it's more than just the dental experience; I would say it's an experience for the whole person.

Debra T. talks about how happy she is with her straight smile Read Transcript

Well, when I started coming to the practice, I noticed that as I was beginning to age, the bottom teeth were doing some shifting work. For a certain number of years, I wanted to get that corrected, but with having three kids, you're always putting their dental needs first. So, we took care of them.
Finally it was my turn. Dr. Wendelschafer has been very successful at getting that bottom portion of my mouth straightened out. I had braces on for just under a year, about 10 months, I believe. I just recently got them off as a matter of fact and was very impressed and very pleased with the smile that I have.
I went with the traditional braces. It was a new experience for me. My daughter had gone through it, but until you go through braces for yourself, you really don't know what to anticipate.
But he walked me through the entire process, told me what he was doing every step of the way. I never felt like there were things going on and I was in the dark. He talked me through the entire thing.
They went on. I went through the process, came in for my monthly exams and everything. As I said, recently got them off, and I've been very pleased with the results.
I just thought I looked fantastic. I've been really guarded about my smile for the last few years because of the crowding and crooked or misplaced teeth, if you will. And so when I first got that glance, I thought, “Wow, this is the smile that I remember from maybe 15 years ago or so.” I was very happy about that.

Darline V. talks about the quality of care Doctor Wendelschafer can offer Read Transcript

I was born with a crooked jaw, which they straightened a little in the surgery even though it didn't go well. I wore braces as a child. They couldn't do anything to fix it because it was a bone problem, and I told him that I have never been able to eat anything without pain. And I couldn't bite a sandwich, even a tuna sandwich – something … if I did, it just caused terrible pain in my front teeth because they would hit each other. If it was soft, it would go through it too quickly. And if it was hard, it wouldn't bite it at all. So, you know, it wasn't that I just couldn't eat hard things. I couldn't eat anything without pain.
He didn't hurt me at all. He took the tooth out and made a beautiful bridge. He does implants, but my bone is not good enough, strong enough, for an implant. And he was able to know that. I knew it because I had had jaw surgery many years before, and I was told I have a “glass jaw.” Took me a year to get over the fracturing of my lower jaw. But he knew without my telling him. So he began to look and check the bite, and he said we could fix that.
And I knew that he'd been going to seminars and taking some coursework on that kind of thing, and he was interested in it. So I wasn't afraid to say, “Let's do it.” And we did. It's all complete now. And for the first time in my life, I can eat with no pain. I don't sleep with pain, and my joint, my TMJ joint, doesn't hurt. Everything – my muscles have relaxed. I am just the happiest person you'll ever find because I can talk to you, I can move my mouth, now I can eat things without suffering my way through it.

Darline V. talks about her amazing Full Mouth Reconstruction work Read Transcript

By fixing my bite, it just relaxed the muscles and took the pain out of the TMJ joint. I think that would help a lot of people. They just don't get to the right person to find that out. And after he did the bridge over here, I said, "That feels so much better than my teeth did. I'm not sorry to have that at all," and it was a beautiful bridge. I mean, my teeth were never that pretty. He said, "Well, would you like to go ahead and have us fix your bite?" And I said, "I would love to." The first thing he did, my lower teeth were hitting my upper teeth, causing them to move out and making them sore. So he crowned the front six teeth on the lower. When we got through that, that just felt so much better that there was no hesitation. I just wanted to go right ahead and do them all. Just since he's been working on it, I've had enough time with the temporaries in that all that stress has left those teeth. They don't feel weak anymore.
I could never eat anything as hard as an apple. If I wanted an apple, I had to grate it, and that takes all the fun out of having an apple. The first thing I did was have an apple, and it was really, really nice, but that's what he did with all the teeth. He just lined them up and worked with what he had so that I wasn't hitting in the wrong place on the uppers, making the upper sore and the lower sore. All of that causes muscle spasms that go all the way back to the TMJ joint. By solving each problem one at a time, it solved them all. Night and day difference, because even if you're not trying to eat, your mouth has to sit in a comfortable position, and mine didn’t. And then I would be asked to go out and eat. “We're going to go get pizza, would you like to come?” I'd have to say no. Now I can say yes, and I can go and enjoy making friendships that I couldn't make before because I can go eat pizza. It just makes all the difference in the world.

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