Sterling Bishop, a 57-year-old man from Cincinnati, Ohio, flips proudly through the pictures on his phone as he shows off his beloved daughter’s wedding photos from last July. “I didn’t smile here though,” Bishop said. “I wanted to smile so bad, but I didn’t want to mess up her moment.” Bishop began having problems with…
Joyce Handspike first met Rochelle Butler, DDS, while she was in a dark place – on a roller coaster of alcohol and crack use and making a living by selling drugs supplied by her Godson. “My teeth were bad. Dr. Butler had to pull all of them,” Joyce said. Fast forward 9 years to early…
“I got my first partials when I was sixteen,” says Wardell Jones – a now 69-year-old man who received dentures from the Piedmont Dental grant this year. “I came from meager means. Growing up, the dentist just pulled teeth. He did nothing preventive like a root canal or cleaning.” In the summer of 1965, Jones…
Pearly whites for Pearlie through her new set of dentures. At 75, Pearlie McCrimmon is soft spoken and not-so-good at remembering names. So she tells you upfront that she might call you sweetie, baby or princess during a conversation, and she describes herself as young and strong as a bull. Pearlie lived in Georgia in…
I went to Savannah for my family reunion with extra swagger,” said Jimmy Johnson with a smile that showed his new top and bottom dentures. The 65-year-old resident of Stone Mountain is one of dozens of low-income seniors who benefited from a $13,000 dental grant from Piedmont Hospital. Johnson had lost his dentures and couldn’t…
