Description
Stacey suffered damage to her smile in a school bus accident as a teenager that led to her two front teeth needing to be removed years later. When she visited Dr. Heringer in Bismarck, he told her he'd be able to re-complete her smile with a custom dental bridge. Stacey says her results have made life easier—she's pain-free, her bite is comfortable, and her smile looks beautiful.
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I almost didn't feel worthy to have
these teeth, the Miss America teeth.
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I was in a school bus accident
when I was a teenager,
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about 14, 15 years old, and I had a lot
of extensive damage to my teeth.
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With the damage and then years of wear
and tear on these damaged teeth,
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I was told by my dentist that
my two front teeth had to be removed.
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When I came to Dr. Heringer,
we discussed options.
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He gave me options.
He said we can do implants.
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We can do a bridge.
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We just decided it would be best overall
to do them all at the same time.
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That way the bite would be perfect,
which it is.
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I'm pain-free.
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I'm no longer biting
my cheek when I eat or talk.
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She needs somebody to give
her hope and give her options.
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We gave her hope, and we gave her options.
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The front two teeth had to be removed,
and we did not place implants.
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She's got such a beautiful smile
right now.
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On her front two teeth,
we placed a bridge up there.
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The front two teeth
are the most important teeth
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in the patient's smile.
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They have to be exactly the same size,
same shape, and everything.
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They have to be a mirror image
of one another.
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We nailed it with Stacey.
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I expected when I came here
that they'd take care of my teeth.
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I didn't expect that they would care
about me like they do.
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What Stacey had done
was very impactful in her life.
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It could have been done wrong,
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and the poor woman would have lived
the rest of her life hating her smile.
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It was a lot of hours in the chair,
and everybody was just so wonderful.
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The assistants hung in there.
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Dr. Heringer never seemed tired at all,
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even when I was exhausted
and knew he had to be too.
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This dentistry that Dr. Heringer does,
it isn't a job to him.
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It's passion.
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What makes me happy
is when I look at my patient
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and I fall back in love with her smile
because I haven't seen her for a while.
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My eye doesn't lie to me
and my face doesn't lie.
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If I don't love their smile,
I can see it on my face and I feel it.
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She's happy and so am I.