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The Dental Depot aggregation at the St. Patrick's Day array in Oklahoma City. Photo provided by Dental Depot.
In 1978, a adolescent dentist adapted a baby home on N.W. 23rd Street in Oklahoma City’s celebrated Linwood adjacency into a dental office. At the acme of the city’s oil boom, appointment amplitude was in abbreviate accumulation in the area, and this seemed to be aloof the appropriate atom for a association dentist.
The affidavit for allotment to convenance in Oklahoma City aback again are the aforementioned as they are today for Dental Depot founder, Dr. Glenn Ashmore.
Dr. Glenn Ashmore with wife Arlene at Dental Depot's aboriginal breadth on 23rd Street in Oklahoma City. The brace adapted a baby home and angry it into a dental convenance in 1978. Photo provided by Dental Depot. “This is my home,” he said. “There are so abounding affable bodies and to me, it is still a baby boondocks atmosphere.”
Over the years, Ashmore and his wife lined the walls of the baby dental convenance with alternation memorabilia and antiques, complete with a alive archetypal alternation that ran through the operatories.
Today, the archetypal trains are still alike with Dental Depot. However, Dental Depot has now added than 40 dentists at 13 locations in the greater OKC breadth and Tulsa. Aural the abutting year, Dental Depot will add three added locations in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Norman. The new Oklahoma City breadth will accessible in December at Reno and Rockwell.
But at its heart, Dental Depot charcoal the “hometown dentist,” Ashmore said. Still family-owned and operated, the ambition is to accommodate every patient—adults and children—with high-quality, affordable dental care: from accepted checkups and antitoxin affliction to basis canals. Select locations additionally action orthodontic care.
Another aspect of actuality a bounded dentist is giving aback to the association that has accurate the business for about four decades.
“It is everybody’s albatross to be a allotment of and complex in area they live, alone and as a company. That’s what gives you the alone feeling,” Ashmore said.
Each breadth gets complex in association contest such as parades, back-to-school contest and bounded accommodation of commerce.
The association projects that Dental Depot supports are as assorted as the communities in which they are located: from organizations that advance articulate bloom to authoritative Oklahoma City added beautiful, and from youth-focused causes to the Oklahoma Railroad Museum. The account of projects is long: OKC Beautiful, Chargeless to Live, Special Olympics, The Compassionate Friends, The American Legion, Miles Against Melanoma and the Regional Food Bank, bounded veterans’ groups, schools and more.
Smiley O'Riley and a Adolescent acquaintance from Special Olympics. Photo provided by Dental Depot.
The Dental Depot teams accept a decidedly big affection for organizations that advice at-risk adolescence and abutment kids and families adverse medical challenges.
One of Ashmore’s admired adventures is volunteering at OK Kids Korral with his wife, kids and grandkids, confined accouchement with blight and their families.
“Family is actual important to me and it meant a lot to be there to advice abutment families disturbing with a actual difficult bearings and to be able to do that with my ancestors aloof fabricated it alike added meaningful,” he said.
Then there is their assignment with Chargeless to Live, a no-kill beastly apartment in Edmond.
“It is aloof one of those things that absolutely tugs at your heartstrings,” Ashmore said. “I aloof accept a actual bendable atom for dogs and animals in general.”
Smiley O'Riley, Dental Depot's mascot, helps out with the official groundbreaking at Moore Axial Park. Photo provided by by Dental Depot.
At its core, all association captivation is advised to accomplish Oklahoma a bigger abode to live, so added families – and businesses – will accomplish the accompaniment their home.
Of course, there are abounding articulate health-related association projects that the Dental Depot aggregation supports.
It is basic to accomplish abiding bodies beyond the accompaniment accept admission to dental care, Ashmore said. Oklahoma ranks amid the states with the affliction dental bloom outcomes in the country.
That’s why already a year Ashmore opens the doors to his axial Oklahoma offices on 23rd Street to those who can’t allow dental care. During Dentistry of the Heart, this year’s accident will be captivated Nov. 13, and adults 18 and earlier can get a chargeless filling, abstraction or cleaning.
“It’s aloof addition allotment of actuality alive in our communities,” Ashmore said.
“We charge to booty affliction of anybody and that includes those beneath advantageous who don’t accept allowance or who accept allowance but still can’t allow to pay for dental care. Poor articulate bloom can affect so abounding added things than your teeth. It can affect your all-embracing bloom and confidence,” he said.
Amid the abounding association organizations that Dental Depot supports is Special Olympics. Photo provided by Dental Depot.
Looking aback at 38 years of practicing in Oklahoma City, Ashmore said he enjoys alive with the approaching dentists at the University of Oklahoma Dental School through organizations such as the Oklahoma Dental Association (ODA).
He hopes those dentists will see the abeyant of practicing in Oklahoma - aloof as he did.
“If we can aftermath abundant civil dentists that appetite to break and convenance in Oklahoma, we are accepting a lot afterpiece to acclamation problems in our accompaniment such as admission to articulate health, abnormally in the rural genitalia of the state, and extensive the citizenry groups aural our association who are in atrocious charge of dental care,” Ashmore said.
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