Where the filter comes from.
When I started in dentistry, I believed in what it could be. Doctors who truly saw their patients — who asked about their health, their life, what was keeping them from getting the care they needed. I watched those doctors change people's lives. And I knew that was the work worth doing.
I spent time inside a comprehensive dental treatment center early in my career. When the doctors had ownership — when they had skin in the game — the culture was different. Every patient was a person with a specific problem. The question was always: what does this patient actually need?
That experience became my filter. I know what it looks like when a doctor is still asking the right question. I also know what it looks like when they've stopped. That filter lives in everything I built at My Smile Insured — in who I work with, how I qualify practices, and what I'm willing to put my name on.
My Smile Insured exists because there is a gap between what medical insurance will actually cover for dental conditions — and what patients know to ask for, and what dentists know how to document and bill. That gap is costing people care they need and deserve. I close that gap. For patients who need an advocate. For practices who want to be one.
I bring AAPC credentials, 30 years of clinical context, and affiliation with the American Academy of Oral Systemic Health to every case I touch. But more than credentials — I bring the ability to see the whole picture. The patient. The diagnosis. The insurance. The documentation. The path through.
