Friday, January 22, 2010

New Patients

Six years ago I flew to Seattle, Washington to have my dental work done. A few years later, my wife flew to Seattle to be treated by one of the top 5 restorative dentists in the world to have her dental treatment. In the past few years, I get in my car and drive 5 hours to Buffalo, NY to have treatment.
This week I had a patient fly in from Florida and this morning I will treat a young man who drove in from his college in Virginia for me to restore his front teeth which were injured when he was a child. His teeth had just been repaired for the umteenth time in December and they had broken again.

Many dentists have their old patients who moved away return for dental care because they TRUST their long time dentist. But the patients that I am seeing this week are new and not long term patients of record. Each was referred by a Saragota Dental Specialist who I have either treated as a patient or has worked with me a very long time.

I am thrilled that a patient would think that it was worth the effort, time and money to fly into town for ME to be their dentist.

I think that it is just great to have a reputation that encourages people to seek you out despite the great efforts involved. After all, most cities have a dentist on every corner. But then again...We know that there is a difference in quality among dentists.