{"id":1188,"date":"2020-02-12T08:27:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2020-02-14T08:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:07:59","slug":"dr-koo-donates-thousands-in-dental-work-to-pasadena-woman-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/dr-koo-donates-thousands-in-dental-work-to-pasadena-woman-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Koo Donates Thousands in Dental Work to Pasadena Woman in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AdobeStock_285209028__1581009215_80927-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"older woman making heart hands \" class=\"wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AdobeStock_285209028__1581009215_80927-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AdobeStock_285209028__1581009215_80927-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AdobeStock_285209028__1581009215_80927.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about your morning routine. If you\u2019re like a lot of people, once you get up, you start making coffee, and then you munch on some cereal, toast, or maybe a small breakfast bar before you grab a cup and rush out the door. Now, imagine you had to take whatever you wanted to eat, put it in a blender, and turn it into mush, because you can\u2019t actually chew it. This was the reality for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/investigates\/2020\/01\/30\/spencer-solves-it-helping-a-pasadena-woman-get-12k-in-dental-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Sharon Tillotta<\/a>, a Pasadena woman who was missing most of her teeth. The remaining ones were either broken or failing, and she didn\u2019t have the funds to replace them because her husband was spending a lot of time in the hospital due to both kidney and heart disease. She was in a desperate situation that didn\u2019t seem to have an end, and that\u2019s when Bill Spencer, Dr. Terri Alani, and our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/meet-dr-steve-koo-dds.html\">Dr. Steve Koo<\/a> decided to help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Helping Hand <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeling like she had no other option, Sharon decided to write to Bill Spencer, an investigative reporter at KPRC2 Houston, who leads the well-known \u201cSpencer Solves It\u201d segment on the news. In it, Spencer connects people like Sharon to professionals willing to donate their services to solve their problems. Sharon\u2019s story really spoke to Spencer, so he partnered with local dentist Dr. Terri Alani, who was more than eager to help. Dr. Alani said that Sharon\u2019s mouth was a \u201cdisaster area,\u201d and she knew she couldn\u2019t handle the case alone, so she contacted Dr. Koo. He didn\u2019t hesitate to provide everything that Sharon needed, free of charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spencer Solves It: Help for woman with dental issues\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OYdXCeX-hF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Road to a New Smile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharon needed a full denture to replace all of her upper\nteeth and a partial denture to replace her back teeth on the bottom. This would\nenable her to finally eat solid food again, not to mention restore her confidence\nwhen meeting and talking to people. Step one was for Dr. Koo to remove her\nailing teeth up top, which was no easy feat because her gums were severely\ninfected and inflamed. Afterward, almost immediately, the constant dental pain\nSharon had been struggling with for years was gone. Once she had healed, Dr.\nAlani was able to give Sharon the custom-made dentures that would change her\nlife. In the video below, you can see her priceless reaction when viewing her\nnew smile for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What We Can All Learn <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Altogether, Sharon\u2019s dental work was worth over $12,000, but\nDr. Alani and Dr. Koo both happily donated their time and skills for free. What\nwe can all learn from Sharon is that taking care of our teeth today can save us\na LOT of trouble in the future. And, if you need any type of oral surgery, the\ndoctor that local dentists know they can rely on to provide excellent care can\nbe found right here at Piney Point Oral &amp; Maxillofacial Surgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your smile is in need of help similar to Sharon\u2019s, we hope her story inspires you to seek out the care you deserve. The team at Piney Point OMS is able to provide all types of surgical services, and we always go above and beyond to ensure our treatments are easily affordable for every patient. To learn more about your options with us, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/contact-us.html\">give our team a call today<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think about your morning routine. If you\u2019re like a lot of people, once you get up, you start making coffee, and then you munch on some cereal, toast, or maybe a small breakfast bar before you grab a cup and rush out the door. Now, imagine you had to take whatever you wanted to eat, put it in a blender, and turn it into mush, because you can\u2019t actually chew it. This was the reality for Sharon Tillotta, a Pasadena woman who was missing most of her teeth. The remaining ones were either broken or failing, and she didn\u2019t have the funds to replace them because her husband was spending a lot of time in [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/dr-koo-donates-thousands-in-dental-work-to-pasadena-woman-in-need\/\">(Read More)<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineypointoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}