11/03/2025
I used to think my job was fixing teeth.
Now I know my job is healing people.
Dental school trains us to chase cavities and codes—
fill, polish, bill, repeat.
But what about the why?
Why did the cavity form in the first place?
Why do healthy-looking patients still wake up tired, grind their teeth, or struggle with TMJ pain?
When I started looking for root causes—
mouth breathing, airway dysfunction, poor bite alignment, gut and sleep issues—
everything changed.
That’s when I stopped being “just a dentist.”
I became a partner in healing.
Functional dentistry isn’t “alternative.”
It’s what dentistry was always meant to be.
🦷💫 Because every smile has a story — and true dentistry listens first.