Smiles to Last a Lifetime
Doctors Julio Lamboy and Mayra Ayala Rubio treat High Point, North Carolina’s youngest patients, in order to help them establish a lifetime of good oral health
In the waiting room at KidSmiles, parents are relaxing while across the room, children are playing with toys and wall-mounted video games. It’s an idyllic scene, and definitely not what one expects in the lobby of a pediatric dental practice. The fun and relaxed environment, however, is the result of careful planning by Dr. Julio Lamboy and Dr. Mayra Ayala Rubio along with their Patterson Dental team.
From Dream to Reality
Devotion to children’s oral health is what motivated Doctors Lamboy and Ayala Rubio to begin the construction process on KidSmiles, Where A Healthy Smile Begins, just one year ago in downtown High Point, North Carolina.
The doctors both emigrated from Puerto Rico to attend dental school at Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, D.C. and there they became friends. After graduation, they went their separate ways with the intention of one day having their own practice, though they never planned on having one together.
Dr. Ayala Rubio, who acquired general and pediatric dentistry degrees from Howard University, moved to Atlanta and joined a large group practice there. After a year and a half, she went out on her own and was in the process of building a new practice with her Patterson Dental team when she received a call from Dr. Lamboy. He was in High Point, N.C., at a private practice and knew of a 30-year-old pediatric dental practice that was for sale. It was well-known in town and when he pitched a joint venture to Dr. Ayala Rubio, she decided to join him in High Point.
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For the next year, the doctors practiced out of the five-operatory High Point practice part of the week and commuted to Atlanta to work in Dr. Ayala Rubio’s newly built practice for the other part of the week. They also built a small, five-operatory practice in Asheboro, N.C. (about 45 minutes away from High Point) with their Patterson team during that time. Working in their own practices was a dream come true but ultimately their schedule was too busy to sustain for long.
In 2008, they sold the Atlanta practice to focus their efforts on North Carolina by building a state-of-the-art brand-new office in High Point. Dr. Lamboy found a prime lot one block away from the existing practice and hired a contractor. When the doctors encountered a setback halfway through the construction process, however, the Patterson Dental team and service technicians Keith Minter, Jeff Smith and Scott Suits kept the project on schedule to open in early 2009.
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