How will you wear it?

Posted by Becky Carter | June 18, 2010

A smile...pass it on

“So, is it a command or a request?”

What? I was standing in line at the grocery store, double checking that I got everything that I came in to get. I must have had a very puzzled look on my face as I looked at the older gentleman in line ahead of me. He repeated, “Is that a command or a request?” as he pointed at my Smile Generation t-shirt.

“Well,” I replied, “I suppose most people smile when they look at it, so it must just be a given.”

“Hmmm…” he said fighting off a smile of his own, “I just have fun reading people’s t-shirts.”

I explained to him, “If you were out at the Irvine Marketplace at lunch time today, you would’ve seen a few hundred of us wandering around with this shirt on. It’s for the launch of our new website called The Smile Generation.”

I turned around so he could read the back of my shirt. “We have several hundred dental offices across 5 states.”

He just smiled at me, so I smiled back. He said, “You have a nice smile.”

I replied, “We have good dentists.”

He laughed.

When he got to the register, the checker asked if he wanted to donate $1 to the City of Hope for pediatric cancer research. He said he would, and she asked him to write his name on one of the cards they hang up around the store. Instead of writing his name, he pointed to me and said, “I want to write down her company’s name because she’s just been so nice. And I like her smile.” I flashed him my pearly whites again, thanking Dr. Reagan and Dr. Buehler in my head for all the work they did in my mouth. Then I turned around so he could see the back of the shirt and get the spelling right.

I smiled and said, “Thank you,” and he smiled back before gathering his groceries and wishing me a good day.

How do I wear my t-shirt? Well, I started wearing mine for charity:water. Then I wore it so I could wear a t-shirt and jeans to work. Next thing you know, I’m wearing it for pediatric cancer research. How will you wear it?

Tags: appreciation, cad cam, charity water, dental, Dentist, dentistry, employees, modern dentistry, Outreach, pacific dental services, PDS, Smile Generation, we serve
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we serve: water

Posted by Kyle Guerin | September 4, 2009

In the dental industry we use water everyday. We use it to cool our hand pieces, we use it to rinse, both with the spray and in the sink, and in the simplest form we use it when we brush our teeth. Now we are going to use it to change someone’s life.

One billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water.  That’s one in six of us.  Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.  Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick.  PDS decided we wanted to help.

Pacific Dental Services agreed to donate $1 for every CAD/CAM Restoration done in the month of August to the non-profit organization charity: water.  The goal was to raise $10,000 to build two wells.  Through the hard work of the individual offices and the generous donations amongst employees, affiliated dentists and two partnering labs PDS was able to raise $11,800 and provide clean water to 590 people for the next 20 years.

To learn more about charity: water check out their website at www.charitywater.org

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Tags: cad cam, charity water, we serve, wells
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