Lakeland comic commences enterprise right after dental treatment abroad

TAMPA, Fla. — Lakeland resident Justin Fennell is part of a big development in health treatment: he has traveled to an additional nation to get much less expensive treatment. The CDC suggests several million People in america do that each individual year. But Fennell was so happy with his dental care in the Dominican Republic he has begun a business to help other persons do the identical thing.

It’s referred to as VIP Dental Visits.

Fennell has used a long time as a Christian speaker and comic. But he mentioned that in his 20s, he formulated kind 2 diabetes. One complication was a dry mouth that brought about significant dental troubles. He missing tooth and many others were in this kind of poor form he was unwilling to smile. He was so concerned about how his teeth looked he started to turn down community appearances.

“My dental prepare was chew on the left aspect,” explained Fennell as he well prepared to do a comedy routine at Beit Tehila Church in Brandon as part of a fundraiser for a homeless ministry. “The suitable facet was long gone.”

But then, Fennell went on just one of his numerous aid trips to the Dominican Republic with fellow Christian comic, Mike Williams. On that excursion, Fennell met dentists Dr. Julio Cesar Lazala and Dr. Helkin Castillo. He identified out they could supply is dental care for a portion of the cost of care in the United States.

More than the class of three-and-a-half many years, Fennell had a sequence of treatments which includes implants, crowns and veneers.

“These are all fakes. They’ve all been replaced,” claimed Fennell as he pointed to his teeth.

Fennell has now arranged two trips to the Dominican Republic with United States people searching for dental treatment as part of VIP Dental Journeys. A single of the individuals was Brad Fussell. He had preparation do the job finished for an implant and other strategies.
 

“With the preparing for $350, when I occur again, the whole will hardly be $2,400 for what it would have cost $7,000 dollars in the United States,” mentioned Fussell.

Individuals continue to be in a vacation resort though they are receiving their dental function completed.

Fennell has also set up a basis in the Dominican Republic to enable underprivileged little ones get no cost dental treatment with gains from VIP Dental Trips. It’s identified as the VIP Smiles Foundation.
 

Mike Williams is fired up about that. “They say that necessity is the mother of invention,” he stated. “And in this case, requirement has turn out to be the mother of hope for other people today, mainly because young ones from my mission in the Dominican Republic are acquiring enamel changed.”

Again in Lakeland following his second vacation with clients, Fennell is taking heaps of calls from folks fascinated in dental treatment.

He’s thinking again about his unique inspiration. “I thought though I was in the chair, there is a lot of persons just like me who require assistance. And the telephone retains ringing on the time.”