Full Arch Restoration

[00:00:00.000] I wouldn't even look myself in the mouth. [00:00:01.960] It was something that I didn't want to see. [00:00:04.400] I wore my beard really long, to where you couldn't see my mouth. [00:00:07.720] That's how I hid it, I guess you could say. [00:00:10.643] A lot of people weren't aware that I had that problem. [00:00:13.759] Hi there, Clayton Smith. [00:00:15.875] I'm from Albuquerque. [00:00:17.143] I just had full arch restoration done [00:00:20.417] by Dr Michael Haight. [00:00:22.308] With my dental history, it started out in my early 20s. [00:00:26.483] My teeth would just break randomly and I would go in crowns, fillings. [00:00:31.920] Then as I got older in my 30s, I started getting teeth pulled. [00:00:36.808] It's just been downhill ever since then. [00:00:40.108] It was just find the dentist that a friend would recommend. [00:00:44.008] He would do some work, a lot of it was temporary. [00:00:46.270] I would never go back, get the work finished, and it would fail. [00:00:50.440] It got to the point where I had just given up. [00:00:53.317] I have had partial dentures in the past, and that didn't work for me. [00:00:58.575] It didn't feel permanent, didn't feel strong. [00:01:02.400] It was hard to eat with. [00:01:04.400] They didn't feel normal. [00:01:05.658] When I finally came into Dr Haight, [00:01:08.267] it was to the point where I had [00:01:09.958] one and a half teeth touching basically in the front, [00:01:12.957] and it made it extremely hard to eat [00:01:14.850] and didn't even know how to smile at that point. [00:01:18.267] Dr Haight went over my options. [00:01:21.058] Basically, our options were get rid of everything, start over. [00:01:24.383] The thing I was most looking forward to is the permanence of it and the strength [00:01:28.708] because you can eat whatever you want to eat. [00:01:31.050] It's not like where you have a denture [00:01:32.551] where you have to cut the corn off of the cob. [00:01:35.867] I wanted something that could get me as close back to where I was as possible. [00:01:40.867] Dr Haight would call and check on me after the surgery and stuff. [00:01:44.226] I think it was even on a Saturday or a Sunday, he called [00:01:47.583] and actually called to check in on me. [00:01:49.560] That was pretty cool. [00:01:51.080] The hard part about doing all this is I didn't even know how to smile. [00:01:55.008] When I would talk, I wouldn't use my mouth. [00:01:57.433] I would try to cover my teeth when I talked. [00:01:59.880] It's still a process. [00:02:01.720] I'm still trying to learn. [00:02:03.040] It just feels foreign to actually want to smile with your teeth. [00:02:07.083] Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I'm surprised, [00:02:12.300] but I am getting used to it. [00:02:13.667] It's been a long process, but worth every second. [00:02:16.317] Parkway Dental and Dr Haight have been nothing but professional, [00:02:21.542] and I have appreciated everything they've done for me. [00:02:25.292] You can tell they care about their people here. [00:02:28.200] They care about their technology, [00:02:30.067] and that's why I stuck with it. [00:02:32.033] If I had to tell somebody [00:02:34.733] what it was like to walk into a place looking the way I did [00:02:39.683] there's no two ways to put it. [00:02:42.026] It was absolutely embarrassing. [00:02:44.292] It took me years and years of pain [00:02:47.640] to finally admit to myself I needed to go do this. [00:02:51.000] The way these people here at Parkway Dental [00:02:53.533] and Dr Michael Haight made me feel, I would do it again. [00:02:57.517] Anybody who is going through that stuff, just give in and go get help.