Sunday, October 17, 2010

Take Care of My Son: The Golden Standard

Sometimes things happen to our children when they aren't as careful as we would like them to be. A young college student was hit in the mouth playing racket ball and broke his front teeth. He selected a local dentist and was told that he needed to have a root canal and a crown on one tooth and have the other front tooth extracted and an implant placed. The son called his father who did not like the idea of having a front tooth removed and called his own dentist to find out WHO the best local dentists were 650 miles away from home. Some calls were made AND the internet was used to select talent a great distance and in another State. The young man's father was able to assemble a talented team of dentists because he KNEW that there was a better solution for his son's broken teeth. One by one, the father spoke with the different dentists that he assembled and gave us the same instructions: "Please take care of my son."

I am honored to be selected for the team to take care of this young man. I am also extremely pleased that his father remembers the old days where excellence could be found to solve problems that average physicians and dentists were not likely to be able to take care of.

"Please take care of my son" is all that we needed to know. The father's instructions were clear.