PAT'S NEW CONFIDENCE Sometimes even the most outgoing people can have problems with their overall self-confidence if they are living with deteriorating, cracked, or missing teeth. Pat Mendoza is a very intelligent career parent. Money was tight. Trips to the dentist woman with a vivacious personality. Pat is were simply not an option. In fact, even having active in her church and had a successful toothpaste in the house was not a guarantee. 20-year career as an interpreter for the deaf before moving into the medical field. She and While their mother worked, Pat was in charge her late husband David raised two of raising her four younger beautiful, well-adjusted daughters siblings. It was a role that required “I took care of who then turned them into adoring sacrifice. When the family did have grandparents. everyone else for toothpaste, Pat made sure it went so long. Now, it to her brothers and sisters. Pat had always been the kind was time to take “There are seasons in our lives of person who would light up a room just by walking in. But after care of myself.” where we end up putting ourselves her teeth started to show visible last,” explains Pat. deterioration, she didn’t project that aura anymore. Her confidence started to After a childhood without access to dental care, wane. She would walk in the room and go hide as an adult Pat began experiencing the trauma in a corner. of cracking and failing teeth. Pat’s challenges with her teeth were the result of a lifetime of putting the needs of her loved ones before her own. Pat’s mother had a total of 10 children that she had to raise as a single 9 MARQUIS SMILE
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