November 20, 2009

We did it again - November 2009!

Last November, the first 200 patients, first come - first served, received Dentistry From The Heart (free) x-rays, exams, extractions and cleanings.  Must be age 18 and above.

February 23rd, 2009

What a great day today!

We saw 151 patients and did $46,292...and that's without our expansion finished. (They did primer the walls next door amidst all the chaos outside).

The patients started showing up at 11:30 at night. The 150 spots went only to those there prior to 7AM. The TV news station came at 4:30AM unbeknownst to me and there was a crowd already. We did do interviews with two newspapers during the day.

Fortunately it was a cool but pleasant day for all the folks who showed up. Lots of donated food and we got a chance to meet some really promising potential dental assistants...nothing like working hard together to get a good idea of the "real" person. Of course, there were lots of good stories and pleasant surprises throughout the day. The staff was really pumped all day and left excited about all that we'd gotten done.

Gary

February 22nd

We've had, according to Audrey up front, well over a thousand incoming calls about Dentistry From The Heart this year. I've been in two newspapers, been before the TV cameras twice already and I have another in-studio interview this morning. We may have a couple of other dentists coming in to help in the afternoon tomorrow as we go for our goal of doubling last year's 65 patients and $17,000+ in dental services. We've already had people tell us they will be camping out tonight to be first in line. The whole dental assisting class from Montgomery Community College will be on-hand to help as well as the local hospital manager and our Schein supply rep and two policemen directing traffic. NEWS 2 will be covering the event and we're scheduling a real, live lunch to make good use of the mountain of food being donated. Our PAGAS Pizza-Hut mailer-guy made us up some big posters about the event.