I decided to get into dentistry when I was 13 years old. Not dentistry, but specifically orthodontics, because at 13 I had braces, and ironically I had braces from my former senior partner at 13, and he was a big influence on me. He had long hair, drove a Porsche, and literally from 13 years old all through high school, that was my plan, college, never wavered, always wanted to be an orthodontist.

And then ironically, when I got ready to come out of orthodontic school, he was interested in having me join him. He didn’t even know I’d gone through the old merits of school and college because we’d lost track. And then when I came back visiting his office one Saturday just to check out the area of northwest Indiana where I thought I might go, and I told my father to go to my area where I grew up, he said, well, let’s join me, we’ll open up an office there.

And so that’s what we did. People appreciate what we do. Unlike a lot of my dental peers, where people come into the office, I don’t like the smell, I don’t like drills, and I don’t like pain, we don’t deal with any of that.

We deal with people coming here wanting what we do, appreciating what we do, having beautiful smiles when they leave, so they’re very, very happy when they see you in the community later, they’re like, oh, he’s my orthodontist. It makes you very proud to do what we do, because we’re that area of dentistry dealing with cosmetics, and that’s what really people want from dentistry, and that’s what I get to do every day. So it’s nice to come in and have people appreciate what you do, so that’s the best part about what we do.

I would say anybody who’s contemplating it, they’ve decided, they’ve kind of known this by looking in the mirror, and they haven’t made that first step. Have a consultation, get into our office, and I think once you do, from all the feedback we get with evaluations and stuff like that, they’re going to like the doctors. We’re very open, very easy to talk to.

They’re going to like the staff, and they’re going to like the process, because they’re going to see other patients getting done what they’ve had done and appreciate it. They’ll read our reviews, and I think they’ll like the process. We hear a lot of times when they’ve gone other places for second opinions that they like our office and the whole environment.

We get positive reviews all the time. So I’d say if you’re even contemplating wanting to have something done with your smile, come see us, because I think you’re going to like what we have to offer.