Prs B.
Yelp
SEP 18 2017
I recently had an unfortunate fall in my home, which resulted in me banging my face and head against the edge of the bathroom sink counter (hard ceramic). When I got up from the fall, I was looking at myself in the bathroom vanity mirror. What a horrible sight!
I had lost 3 of my front teeth, and I was a bloody mess.
My wife immediately called our Family Dentist of the past 30 years, Dr. Steven Ozer, of Beach Teeth in Manhattan Beach. Dr. Ozer was able to calm her by talking her through "first responder mode".
He calmly asked her to get a towel for my mouth to control the bleeding, and then to "find the teeth that fell out, as quickly as possible". She found them. He told her to put them into some milk, or if there was no milk available, to put them into my mouth so that my saliva could preserve them. I put them in my mouth. And, no, I did not swallow them!!
Even though this was after normal business hours, Dr. Ozer asked us to immediately drive to the Beach Teeth office where he would meet us to perform emergency procedures.
Once there, Dr. Ozer himself went into "emergency mode". He was quickly able to numb me up, and re-insert the missing teeth. The total time from my fall, to the teeth being re-inserted, was 1hr. !!
But that's not the end of this story.
Dr. Ozer also cared enough to make sure that any other damage to my teeth, that might have been done in the fall, was also diagnosed. He put me through a 360-degree X-ray of my mouth which revealed that my bite was not aligned optimally.
Dr. Ozer immediately called a colleague of his, Dr. Thomas Ying, of Manhattan Beach Oral Surgery, for a consultation. After a couple of back-and-forths over the phone, Dr. Ying told Dr. Ozer that he would immediately drive to the Beach Teeth office to have a look for himself.
When Dr. Ying arrived (within 15 minutes!!), I now had a team of two, working on my predicament.
After about 1 more hour of work, the team of Ozer and Ying had my proper bite aligned, and had bonded my loose, re-inserted teeth to my firm teeth with a temporary brace.
Miraculously, within less than 3 hrs. I was transformed from almost this:
(Insert here - picture of front-toothless guy from the movie Deliverance)
to virtually my former self.
(Insert here - picture of my full-tooth smile)
Because of the severity of this trauma, I have been told that there may be complications over time. I'll accept that.
But without the timely, and selfless, and professional help of these two doctors, I would never have even had a fighting chance.
They gave me more than my smile back, they helped preserve my dignity.
No amount of thanks is enough for these two miracle workers.