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Kristen W.: Obviously, as a child, I went where my parents took me, and they were with a practice that was a friend of theirs, and Dr. Blankenship bought the practice, and so my parents just kept coming here because they really loved what he was doing with the practice. So we kept coming, and after I went to college, you sort of go to different dentists wherever you are, and when I moved back to Atlanta, there was no place else I really wanted to go, just because of the comfort level that was here, and the history that I had here, and there’s just a real personal relationship that I have felt, and my children have just progressed into that as well. They kind of come in and they kind of act like they own the place, and that’s good. And then we are like, Everybody quiet, because we’ve got a … it’s still a business, but everybody here is just laid back, and friendly, and it’s really like family. I know with the addition of Dr. Jordan, my daughter really connected with her. She had to have some dental work done and was a little bit difficult to work with in the past, and she just really connected with Jordan and has said, I don’t want to hurt Dr. Blankenship’s feelings, but I really like Jordan. I said, You will not hurt his feelings. Let’s just get the dental work done. So really, if you think about it, a dentist is probably the most frequently seen doctor, at least for me it is, and for my children, because we come every six months. So to me, you need to like who you’re seeing, you need to be able to trust that they’re doing the right thing and doing a good job. And my grandmother came to them, and she was diagnosed with oral cancer. They actually caught something in her mouth. They sent her to a specialist, and she ended up having major reconstructive surgery. And really, if he hadn’t have caught it, it could have gone … and you don’t know what direction it would have gone. But she was able to have some comfort in the last years of her life with things being fixed that might have been missed otherwise, that would have caused bigger problems. So I have confidence knowing that as we move ahead into the older years, those kind of things will be looked at, and make sure we’ve got a healthy mouth.