I had some pretty heavy-duty dental work done recently.  I’m talking more than your run of the mill tooth whitening.  I found a place that specializes in comfortable dental care.  The way they do that is firstly to use the least invasive possible procedures.  Dentistry is actually a very dynamic field, and new ways of doing things are constantly being devised.  Some dentists are trained in the most recent techniques, while others stick to the older methods. 

Secondly, there was an expert in sedation dentistry.  Sedation dentistry means doing the work while the patient is sedated.  In my case, I was conscious the entire time, but I felt numb and very, very relaxed. I decided to have the work done when I was thumbing through family photos.  I noticed that in every picture from every year, I had a small conservative smile.  That just doesn’t match my personality.

I realized that I’m a smile-big kind of person, and it seemed like a real shame that I was afraid to ever show my teeth.  Now that my smile looks like a million bucks, I find myself not only smiling bigger, but also smiling much more often.  Smiling is so important!  Imagine if you had cheerful words stricken from your vocabulary-it could really hold you back, right?

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