For Dr. Marco Gargano, seeing patients leave with a healthy and happy smile is one of the most rewarding parts of being a dentist.
But the friendships he’s created are the reason he heads into work each day — like the one he’s formed with Clifford Jones St., a U.S. Army veteran. Jones came to Gargano with terminal dentition, a condition where a significant portion of a person’s teeth are in such poor condition that replacement is recommended.
Jones was nervous, but after a long conversation with Gargano at the dentist’s practice in Lee’s Summit, he felt more at ease. In the end, Jones got help free of charge and Gargano made a new friend…