Creating Smiles for Warriors - Ficek's Life-Changing - Full Mouth Restoration - Sani Dental Group
Channel: Sani Dental Group
Date: 30/11/2018

Sani Dental Group and Dental Departures came together to give Colton Ficek his smile back after a disease changed his life.

"Hi I'm Colton Ficek, I'm from Baker City. While I was 14 I had a rare disease called TEN stands for toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, pretty much starred my body from head to toe and third-degree burns, so scarred shut my saliva glands and you need your saliva keep it keep clean. Over the 5 years my teeth start falling apart indicating side all my teeth pulled now I have dentures and now here I am". 

"My name is Shelley Conroe, I'm Colton's mother and I'm from Haines Oregon. When he was 14 he was diagnosed with Steven Johnson' Syndrome and it happened over the course of two to three days on the thirds day finally they flew him to Boise, where he was treated there short for a short time and then moved to the burn unit in Portland, Oregon.

"It was hard seeing him, you know, he was just in pain as he was eating constantly and you know sleeping at night it was uncomfortable for him to sleep just because of the pain that his teeth were bringing him. He had towards the end of it, he had a filling in every tooth of his mouth, so you know it was really sad to see him. He pretty much do you know lost his teeth completely so that's why we had to have them all removed".

-What about the medical insurance?
 
"The medical insurance denied it because they said it was a secondary cause to why he lost his teeth, the codes weren't covered for some reason they denied it, so then the dental insurance picked up what they could, but they only cover $1,500 a year and so just getting his teeth pulled that pretty much took all of that money"

"It was disappointing, really disappointing, just figure out of the way and you know come up with the money and that's what we did"

"My mom and I created the GoFundMe account and started sharing it on Facebook and then next thing you know it was trending on GoFundMe and it was getting thousands of shares and next thing my mom and I were talking on the phone, she's like: "Hey someone reached out to me in the Philippines from his company called Dental Departures" and I said "Oh! that's awesome! you know, let me know it you hear anything more about it"

"Everybody deserves quality and affordable medical care and our mission is to help much patients in need with international quality dental and medical service at affordable prices"

"And a few months later she had emailed back asking if you know I was still interested and I said yeah we're still trying to raise the money and at that point then I sent her a link of the GoFundMe account with the video with Colton's history of what he had went through and it touched her so much that she reached out to her supervisor and so forth and then I got a phone call from Jane Parker was reading on the internet and that was one that I read some really good reviews on and Sani Dental Group was probably among the highest with the highest reviews and so I didn't know at that point it was going to be Sani Dental Group but I just reached I was just trying to reach out to find out any information that I could"

"Through our day-in day-out activities we heat every day, sad stories of people in real need of dental care and they can't afford it and it touches us all day long every day we hear a story that we want to be able to help in some way and it's a very rewarding situation that we're in that we can save people so much money but with Colton his uniqueness was that he was such a young man and had his whole life ahead of him facing an entire life with the likelyhood of no teeth and so that  was probably the biggest factor was his age, it was so unique and the ability to make a difference for him for the rest of his like."

"She was chasing your're not gonna believe this, a lady right here in Seattle that is a colleague of the lady that I was speaking with in the Philippines works for this company and she was talking about possibly you know, doing all of Colton's procedure and and getting him exactly what he needs getting him his teeth back you know and really assisting us in helping us out so at that point I was like no,  that's too good to be true"

Dr. Javier Muñiz: "Los Algodones is the big capital of the dentistry in the world and about two blocks, we are 400 to 500 dentists. Also, the patients have two options here to stay in Los Algodones with us, one next to the clinic there is one Hotel Cielito Lindo and the other is about three blocks, in Hacienda Los Algodones. In the same plaza near to Sani Dental Group, we have the pharmacy, we have the restaurant, we have the coffee, so some amenities the patient can takes there".

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