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Inspiring Smiles Helped Him Get Out of Pain

I was overseas and something happened and there was a dislodgement in my tooth; a nerve broke. Dr. Birch helped me clean it up and actually look at my options for the future and gave me the best answers possible and he kept me with my smile; my own natural smile. And he gave me all the options in the future if things go awry. It was the best situation because other dentists, when things started going bad, tried to take my tooth and it just (inaudible). Dr. Birch helped me. He saved my tooth through the root canal.

My pain level at the time was on 8 to 10. When the pain actually kicked, a good six, just on a general day. I couldn’t chew on this side. I actually chewed on the actual pressure point of the tooth. I couldn’t chew on that side because if I chewed I actually put pressure on the whole left side of my face. It would make me have migraines. It was a tough time.

The discomfort level is gone. I don’t have discomfort when I wake up in the morning. I don’t have migraines. Just overall my standard of living has been raised. Your teeth can affect your headache, which is… That’s all day. If you’re just walking around all day with a headache, that affects your mood; that affects business interactions. That just affects things. And it’s micro. You don’t even realize you’re being mean to people because you’re in pain.

He Was Able to Receive A Complete Smile

I can tell my teeth were loosening, that I had bad breath. I had a lot of symptoms that told me that I needed to go get some help. And Dr. Barden looked at my teeth, he did some analysis, and basically came back with, “Hey, if you’ve got bacteria in your bone, bacteria in your gums, you’re going to lose it all. We need to come up with a plan.”

The process started with basically extracting teeth that needed to be extracted. And when he looked at it, he said, “We might as well do them all.” I had dentures, but they didn’t work for me. So I just hung around six to eight months, doing my job without anything in my mouth, eating a lot of soup. Quite frankly, that did me very well because dentures ruin your bone, anyway. About the eighth month or whatever, we started looking at the implants. Now, the implants was a different procedure, of course, that they drill into the bone, they put the implants in. I needed I don’t know if it was five on the top, four on the bottom, something to that effect. And those implants were going to have a bar that received a clip-on denture, which means instead of the denture just floating around in your mouth, it’s actually clipped onto a bar that’s then screwed into your implants. And what that did was allow me a lot more time to heal internally.

At the end of the day, I mean, I feel like I’m brand new. I mean, I can eat a steak. I keep very religiously cleaning around them. I have a Waterpik toothbrush. But, basically, at the end of the day, it was a lengthy process for me. I think it was a good process because it allowed my bone to heal. It allowed my bone probably zero bacteria today. And it also allowed my gums to heal. Those were the most important because if those don’t, then your implants don’t take. So I know now, and he knows now, that my implants have taken because of the fact that he’s done a lot of hard work in there and they don’t budge. His process was the right process. Had I chosen somebody else, I may not be where I’m at today, so I’m very glad that I chose coming here. Quite frankly, I feel great. I mean, I can smile, laugh, eat, have a very good conversation without my tongue lisping, things to that nature, so I’m happy.

He Loves Visiting Inspiring Smiles

Dr. Barden’s chairside manner is very thorough. He’s very professional. He asks a lot of questions, he explained everything that he’s going to do and what he has to do and what he’s seen in x-rays or the 3D imagery. So it’s pretty nice that he explained everything in layman’s terms. The staff, their professionalism and their kindness that they have and the dentist are really well. They’re very thorough at what they do, and they pay attention to what’s going on. So if they’re hurting you, they realize they’re hurting you before you have to say anything. So that makes it nice. Basically, they’re easy to deal with. I’ve had a lot of dentists that I didn’t like for that reason, they care about their patients here, so that’s why I like it. I’ve explained to a lot of friends and family already that if they looking for somebody that cares about their wellbeing and their smile and the overall health of their mouth, then Dr. Barden is the right man to choose.

She Was Able To Restore Her Smile

I’ve always had very bad oral health with my family. It’s just run in my genes, and he has helped me get a perfect bill of great health with my teeth. And he’s also made me feel more confident about my smile with the colors and my lips. And he’s provided me the best service.
So I’ve gotten plenty of root canals done with them and crowns and those always, they feel very natural and it never feels like abnormal, I can never be able to tell that I’ve gotten any work done. In the past other places I’ve gone to, when you bite, it doesn’t feel natural and everything that I get done here, I walk out the door feeling 100% natural and comfortable.

I actually had a root canal yesterday and today I feel great, and it was the best experience I’ve ever had with a root canal. It was so much quicker than I expected it to. I got in here and I thought that they were lifting the chair up. Maybe it would be like, “Okay, a break.” But it was already done, so that was awesome, they were very quick with it.

And honestly, during the procedure, I wasn’t able to feel anything. They numbed me completely. Even the numbing shots, I didn’t feel, so that was really great. I was very nervous entering into it because I’ve had some bad experiences with root canals in the past, but that one was quick and easy, and I was very pleased with that.

I’m very confident about my smile. I feel like a whole new person. I’ve never been confident in my smile and it’s been a big downfall for me. And my confidence now is so much better, and every time I leave the house, I feel like I look like a whole new person.

He Has A Perfect Smile

The practice has been able to help my oral health and smile mainly with my molars. Whenever I’ve gone to past practices, I brought up the issues, and they’ve been able to assess it. But it’s been kind of like a reoccurring thing. So until I got here, they’ve been able to just see what the problem has been going through. They’ve been able to scan through my molars, and then do a deeper dive into the X-ray portion of it. And see further what’s causing the issue. So those are the things that I feel like are highly important. Because when you’re going about your daily life and you’re just eating food or drinking your drink, you don’t want to have any problems when you’re coming to just chew and drinking. And your teeth are just aching and agonizing. And on top of that, they’ve been able to help my smile with some of my bottom part of my teeth, because with my retainers, I’ve had issues where they just break.

But now I was able to come in, get a mold. And then they actually gave it back to me faster than I expected, almost like a week turnaround, if not quicker. And now I’m able to go every night and day just with my retainer, pop it in and out. And my teeth are just shifting back to pretty much the straight line like it’s supposed to be.
I’ve always been comfortable with my smile. I’m a real tedious and attention detail oriented person. So if one little thing bothers me or I feel like it’s an issue, the professionals here know that this is not an issue. They know that the alignment is perfect, my teeth are fine, the smile is great. And so even if you feel like you have a problem, they will know that there is no issue. If there’s anything that they can help you with, it’s just help you with get more bleaching to make them whiter.

So other than that, everything has just been full fledged confidence. I’ve never lacked in it. And I feel like even when I come here, they just let me know that I have perfect teeth, which is what you want to hear. I never have to give my smile second thought, because I know that all the hygienists here, the assistants and the doctors, and even the people at the front desk, they always give me compliments on it. So just that occurring every time I walk in here, it lets me know that I don’t have a smiling issue. And that is something that I can just go out daily, and know that not only they notice it, but other people out in the world will notice as well.