... a free pizza and dental school and that's how it all started
and I've said I've told that story many times but it was it was hey come on in and listen to the seminar about Operation Smile were buying lunch, free pizza and which was nice when you're a sophomore
second year dental student.
so I heard the talk about what OP Smile does the cleft lip, cleft palate, surgery in Third World countries and
was just wowed. How do I get on one of its missions and to so happens that they were running a dental mission in Vietnam later that year and they asked me to come along.
I went along, I observed and did some treatment
but I was the only
the junior that year with a bunch of seniors and I've run the trip ever since.
once you get there and you treat the patients and
the gratitude and
the changes and the difference you make in their lives
it's it's very easy to get hooked
it's transforming. Not only their mouth and their smiles, you transform them, their confidence, their self esteem
and it's totally changed them. They walk into a room now there are there just full of confidence, there are smiling they're excited.
I want more, I want more patients to experience what
those patients have experienced.