June 11, 2024 • 29 mins
Clint Girlie visits with Jackie Barger and Sandy Thompson from the Children's Smile Center to discuss their mission of providing thousands of children in Southwest MO with regular dental access, They also discuss their upcoming fundraiser, The 18th Annual Hot Air Balloon Glow coming up on June 21st.
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Well, hello, and welcome toa show that we call iHeart the Ozarks.
This is a half hour long showthat airs across all five of our
iHeart radio stations here in Springfield.My name is Clint Gurley. I am
the What am I just some guy? I don't mean what's my title?
It's like vice president or something orother. But happy to be with you
today and excited we get to talkto a buddy of mine and a new
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friend, both from the Smile Centerof the Children's Smile Center. Excuse me,
because there's like four or five differentones, Jackie, that all have
very similar names. There's a lotof them that have the word smile in
it. Yeah, you gotta bespecific about which one you're going for.
We are Children's Smile Center, Sothat's Jackie Barger. He is the executive
director, also joined by Sandy Thomps. Is this your first ever radio thing
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that you've ever done? Well?I have some history. I have recorded
a couple commercials in the past,so but this is my first time with
you. Never done like a sitdown, long long form interview type of
thing. Very first time. Alot of politics, a lot of religion.
Oh great, perfect, be readyOkay, we're going to jump in
all of it. I'll talk aboutall our exes also, yeah, sure
if we have time. I mean, don't push it. Sandy Gee's man,
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right out of the gate. I'mexcited, man, I am,
because you guys do one of thecoolest events of the entire year. It
is just kind of a breathtaking site. And every year I don't go because
I don't leave the house, butI see the pictures and I go,
Man, one of these days,that's right, I'm taking the kids.
You should and I'm going you should. You gotta do it, all right,
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Let's talk about the big event comingup June twenty first, Jackie,
I'll let you just go all right. The eighteenth annual Hot Air Balloon Glow,
presented by Ozarkschrivrolet, will be Friday, June twenty first, in downtown
Ozark on the banks of the FinleyRiver down in the park by the Ozark
Mill. And we're so excited tobring this event again for another year to
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southwest Missouri. Now here's what happensabout eight o'clock between eight and eight thirty,
anywhere from six to ten Humongos hotair balloons are gonna set up and
inflate. It's not going to bea flight, not going to be a
launch. You can't do that atnight because of the FAA. They have
rules about that. But the balloonswill be on display. When I say
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on display, words cannot begin todescribe how awesomely majestic, dynamic, beautiful,
awe inspiring it is. You've gotto see it to believe. It
will have between oh, I'd sayat least fifteen thousand, maybe as many
as twenty thousand people that will becoming down to this little area in the
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park to see this spectacle. Andthat's the word, is a spectacle.
And we're just thrilled that we canbe a part of bringing this event once
again to southwest Missouri and surrounding states. I mean, we've got four or
five states every year that are representedcoming to this event, and our balloon
pilots come from all over Missouri.I think we still have one guy from
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Arkansas. We did have one personfrom Kansas, but balloon pilots from all
over the state of Missouri that drivedown and set up and be a part
of this great event. So howdo so at eight thirty I know this
because my son and I were fishingyesterday and we were like, all right,
we got to go back and itwas eight thirty. We're on the
boat and we took twenty five minutesto get back to the dock and it
was still very light outside. Itnine pm. But after that it gets
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kind of dark. How do yousee these balloons? Well, so this
is like, how do I describethis? This is the most amazing light
show because whenever the balloons inflate,they use their propane burners to That's why
it's called a hot air balloon.The propane burner will provide the hot air
that fills up the envelope. Thenthe envelope will stand up straight. And
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then the propane burner has an attachmenton it because as you know, I'm
sure propane burns invisible. Sure,but they have an attachment on the burner
that changes the air mix that thenthe flame becomes visible. Oh cool.
When that flame becomes visible, itturns into just like the science of a
little four inch tall light bulb,there's a filament in the light bulb.
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It's small, but it makes theentire bulb glow. Well, that's exactly
what happens to the hot air balloonsthe propane gas when it is when the
burner uses the right mix and theflame is visible. Then that flame then,
which can be is ten to fifteenfeet high. That flame then lights
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up the entire balloon, just likea light bulb. Yeah, and then
so the pilots spend a lot oftime, you know, grab it on
the cord to make sure the balloongets lighted up. Now, when let's
say seven or eight balloons are doingthis at the same time, you know,
they light up each other almost Andit's just amazing to see how tall
are the things. You know whatthe average height I guess would be between
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seventy and one hundred feet tall,which if you're standing on the ground,
that is a that's a big thing. I think. I think if you
inflate one balloon it becomes the secondtallest building in Southwest Surrey. Possible.
Yeah, it's possible. Yeah,But they're just massive and awe inspiring.
And to stand on the ground rightto them, yeah, you feel pretty
small and it is amazing. Soanyway, there's the basket at the bottom
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of the balloon. That's where thepilot hangs out, that's where the burner
is, that's where his propane thingsare. But the basket also there's room
for maybe two or three other peoplein there. And once the balloons get
set up, you know we're goingto say have ten to fifteen to twenty
thousand people milling around. You cango up and talk to the pilots,
take pictures, learn more about hotair balloons. You'll pull the cord which
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turns the burner on with a flame. And one of the pilots told me
a few years ago, they said, this propane burner puts out one million
btu. That's a lot of energy. That's a ton man like fifty feet
away. You can feel a littlebit of the heat, but it's pointed
straight up, so you're just gettingsome of the extra Where do they even
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keep it? Like now we're justget into the hot air ballooning, But
like I have a propane thing orused to next to my grill. Yeah,
right, and that goes out.I once a summer I got to
go take it in. That burnsit like maybe seven b tu. I
don't know what, but like,come on, a million going in there?
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Did they just have giant cash ofpropane paying off the balloon? They
do have several tanks that they willfill. And you know, we work
out all the details for this event, and we have one of our fine
sponsors that is a propane company thatwill go park behind the fire station and
at the end of the event,the pilots will all pull their trucks and
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their trailers up and they will refilltheir propane tanks at the end of our
event. Now, there have beentimes. I remember when we had our
Pandemic show in twenty twenty, Iguess it was we had it at an
alternate site and it was a drivethrough only, and our pilots went till
they ran out of fuel. Wow, because we had so many people in
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line from miles it was a mess, but they were going till they ran
out of fuel. We don't likereally doing that all the time time,
So about sixty to ninety minutes iswhat they're going to do. That's physically
also about the limit of what theycan do themselves personally a piloting crew,
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because it's it's strenuous. If there'sthe slightest breeze, they're working hard on
the ground. Yeah, So besidesthese balloons, what elsees glow all about?
Like, what are people doing there? On site. I mean,
that's a lot of people. Man, what the at the perfect lead in
so our hot Air Balloon Glow isit's our own independent event. It's our
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largest fundraiser of the year for theSmile Center. But we bring this event
inside the schedule of the two daySirtoma Duck Race Festival Gotcha, which is
also a charity fundraiser, and theSirtoma Duck Race Festival. The ground's open
at five pm on Friday and itgoes through late late late Saturday night,
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the twenty second. There are tonsof things going on connected to the Sirtoma
Duck Race Festival that are around ourBalloon Glow. So if you come for
the Balloon Glow, there are goingto be dozens of food and drink vendors.
There's a huge kid zone with ridesand attractions and bounce houses and things
for little kids to do. There'sa live music entertainment stage that has acts
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going during different times of the evening, arts and crafts and small business vendors
that are all over the park.There's just a ton of things going on
on Saturday, wide variety of things. There's a five k run first thing
in the morning, there's a carshow for a few hours in the afternoon,
there's a pie eating contest. Again, there's live music throughout the day,
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and again the kid zone and allthe food and drink vendors, and
then the duck race itself is aboutseven o'clock on Saturday evening, then some
more live music and then the bigfireworks show. It's going to be to
end the evening late Saturday night.So for the balloons, it's Friday night,
right, kicks off around eight eightor eight thirty, eight thirty something
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like that, and then they gofor ninety minutes. So you got a
window to go ninety minutes. Howdo folks get information about like how to
just maybe just this specifically, likeget to the glow festival? Yep,
We've got a Facebook page eighteenth AnnualHot Air Balloon Glow on Facebook. And
where as we get closer to theevent, which is like starting now,
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we're going to have a lot moreinstructions for people about what they can do,
where they can go. It isfree to attend. The event is
free to attend. There will bea probably a ten dollars per car parking
fee that goes to the Sertoma DuckRace Festival. They operate all of the
parking. There's tons of off siteparking at the high school. Again ten
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dollars a car, and then youcan ride a shuttle bus down nice to
get to the grounds. If youshow up at five pm, which is
when the ground's open, they'll besome parking available at the Duck Race Festival
site itself, the Finley River Parkright there at the McCracken bridge. It'll
fail up pretty quick. But likeI say, if you come at five,
you might get a parking spot atthe park itself, but if not,
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offsite parking with shuttle bucks, gotcha. And then you'll be updating information
on the Facebook page. You justlook for eighteenth Annual Glow Fests. Okay,
awesome, that's on Facebook. Sandyhasn't said a word yet, and
we've been talking for at least anhour at this point. Right. Have
you been to this before, Sandy? Yes, I have been as a
spectator. Yeah, okay, Sothat's what I'm curious about, because I
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mentioned earlier, like I it's veryrare that I leave just the house or
the confines of my little area inRepublic, right, So just coming here
today to the studio. Big dealfor me, never having gone to this
before as a spectator. Tell meabout your experience. Yep, so I
actually excuse me. A couple yearsago had family from Texas in town,
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and so it was great because theygot to go see it. We went
down to the Finlay River Park.We were able to park, go,
set up our blanket, spread outyour blanket, and kind of wait for
the show to start. So whilewe were down that, the kids kind
of ran around on the kids Zone, did some carnival rides, got some
snacks, and then just the anticipation, anticipation of waiting for the balloons.
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You see the pilots start to getthem out and there's like a stir in
the crowd, and then as they'restarting to light them up, it's just
it is spectacular and you can justsit and you know they're kind of going,
you know, one at a time, and then they're all glowing and
it's just amazing to see. Yeah, it felt good about bringing the kids
there and everything with that many people. Yes, because that's one thing we're
always concerned about it is as afamily with smaller kids, like, Okay,
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it's going to be a big area, like are We sure, but
I mean I think that it's veryfamily focused. There's lots of stuff for
the kids to do and the olderkids do and adults to do. We
felt safe as our kids kind ofwalked around us too. Yeah, very
very nice area. That's great tohear. Sandy Thompson is the community relations
director at the Children's Smile Center andJackie Barger, who he heard, is
the executive director over there. Howdo you guys? You mentioned that this
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is free besides parking fee, butfree to get in. How are you
making money? Really appreciate that,you know, We're so pleased to say
that it's the eighteenth Daniel Hid AirBalloon Glow presented by Ozark Chevrolet. Gotcha.
They've been our lead sponsor for severalyears now. Were so grateful.
And then we've got goodness twenty fiveor thirty other corporate sponsors that write checks
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to be sponsors of the event.You'll see them on our Facebook page.
We're going to talk about them alot. But then they are VIP guests
at our event and they let uscover a few some of the expenses that
we have for the Hotter Balloon Glow, But then most of the funds then
are available for the Children's Smile Centerto use. And what we do is
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make sure we're underwriting our equipment andfacilities that we need to provide dental clinics
for kids in need. Yeah,so I want to get into what the
Children's Smile Center is all about,because you know, I, like most
people have a dentist that we goto good and yeah, look I don't
go very much, don't give no, but we take the kids. We
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even have an orth of downe nowwith my daughter, So like, well,
we're in and out of these dentistoffice and orthodonost office all the time.
And I know how much that costsme every month? Right, what
is the children's spousal? What makesit different? Should I should ask than
just a regular aldentist that we're goingto see you? Bet so. We
are a large nonprofit organization that operatesdental clinics to provide regular dental office care
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to kids who are covered by MissouriMedicaid. Now there's the catch because for
decades, if your only insurance coveragewas Medicaid, you would look near and
far and you couldn't find a dentistthat would accept the Medicaid reimbursement to provide
the care. The reason being thereimbursement historically has been so low, so
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and there's a shortage of dentists generally, so they would have a full client
list and the office schedule is totallyfull with the general public population. Yeah,
okay, So that left even morefrustration for a large population of the
low income that depended on Medicaid providersto provide the care. So for most
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of the children that we take careof, and last year we had seven
thousand patients, wow, that wetook care of. For most of them,
we are the only reasonable access toa regular dental clinic that they have.
Okay, So we have clinics inOzark, in Branson West in southern
Stone County, and then in Aurorain Lawrence County to cover a six county
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area. That's our we call thatour service area. Ye for Christian,
Stone, Tainey, Lawrence, Berryand Dade counties. We can be your
regular dental clinic now. To bereal honest, some of those folks still
drive thirty to fifty miles to cometo our clinic. Well of course,
yeah, but they still tell usyou're the only place we can find where
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we can get our kids in toget regular dental care. Now, I've
said it a few times, regulardental care. So many times there are
parts of the population that are onlyable to access dental care when the bus
is in the school parking lot,when the van is at this location.
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And there's nothing against mobile units thatI'm going to say, but they're limited.
It's not a regular dental experience.Your family, You and your kids
have what we would call a permanentdental home. If something happens that you're
not expecting, you know exactly whoto call, and you know, within
a reasonable amount of time they're goingto work you in for an emergency.
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Sure. Literally all of our patientshave not had that at all. Yeah,
So that's our goal is to establisha permanent dental home relationship. So
we know them, they know us, and you know, we have all
their dental records, you know,in our in our files, and then
we can provide that regular dental experiencethat most of these families haven't had.
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This is going to sound ignorant,but I have no fear of putting my
own ignorance on display. Why ishaving a permanent dental home important, especially
for kids? Absolutely great question.In fact, that's a perfect question.
A permanent dental home is important forchildren to learn Number one, the importance
of oral health. To know thatyou have a partner for your oral health.
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Moving forward, for years, welike seeing kids as young as one
or two years old, and theMedicaid reimbursement provides care in clinics for kids
ages one to nineteen. After achild turns one, we encourage families to
go ahead and make an appointment.For those first few appointments, we call
them happy visits, and for thechild, they can learn that a dental
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office is a fun place to be. Are going to talk about the air
and the water and the different thingsyou do in the mouth, and they're
going to learn that it's fun tobe with the staff at the Smile Center,
and the dentists are going to bethey're trained and have experience to make
the experience positive and good. Andthen so we have hundreds and hundreds of
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families that we can look back intheir records and they bring their child every
six months for years, they workhard to try to do a good job
at home, brushing, flossing,rinsing, trying to stay away from sugar,
trying to reduce the sugar drinks.But if they're doing that, we'll
see years of these visits every sixmonths and very very few times where they
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need us to do restorative work.A hygiene visit would be a checkup,
clean X rays, and florid fluoride. A restorative visit would be let's say
we need to do a filling,or we need to do a root canal,
or a polpotami and a crown,or maybe there needs to be an
extraction or for whatever. If families, for the most part, can pay
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attention to the big things on theprevention side, we will prevent the need
for the restorative side. Sure,that's the long term goal of a permanent
dental home is for it to preventthe need for invasive restorative work. Sure,
so I understand the importance of whyfor an individual child going to the
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dentist on a regular basis and establishingthat as a routine thing is important for
their health for their moving forward inlife into adulthood. Being a nonprofit,
why would you say it is importantfor our community to support something like this
like the Children's Smile Center. Numberone would be the need? Sure,
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in terms of thousands of kids thatdon't have access to a regular dental experience,
there's the need and when children donot have our families do not have
access to care for their children.They're faced with dealing with emergencies or temporary
situations that are highly stressful, anda permanent dental home can take the edge
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off of some of those emergencies,or with good care over a longer period
of time, prevent the need forthe emergencies even happening. Have you guys
seen the number of kids you're seeingincrease or decrease or stay flat over the
last few years, different ways oflooking at it. There was a very
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big bulge of an increase in thepandemic because there were children eligible for Medicaid
and as long as the pandemic wasin place, that was until what May
of twenty three, I think theywould not remove children from the Medicaid access,
So there was a big, bigbulge of that increase. There are
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always families that are going in andout of Medicaid care and some of the
neatest stories is talking to a familythat you know what, I took my
kids to a good friend of oursdown in Stone County said he was helping
us with our fishing tournament. That'sanother event that we do in May every
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year. And his wife was asking, now, this Children's Smile Center is
like, Honey, don't you remembera few years ago when things were tough
we had to take our kids thereAnd she said, oh, and it
all came back to her in termsof what we were able to offer in
terms of families are proud to taketheir kids to the Smile Center. They're
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not treated like a number. They'retreated with dignity and respect, and we
want to have a positive, funexperience for the kids. And that's important
to help families at a time whenthey need it. Now their kids aren't
covered by Medicaid. Now things aregoing well in their family, but they
look back with great fondness on theability to make sure you know, parents
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want to take care of their kids. Yeah, and that's what we were
able to provide for them. JackieBarger is the executive director of the Children's
Smile Center and Sandy Thompson, whowe've talked to briefly. But I do
want to get because you're relatively newto the Children's Smile Center. Yes,
that's right, Well, tell meabout your experience so far. There.
I mean Jackie, Jackie will talkit up all day long because that's what
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he's done for one hundred years.Right, he's worked there, But you've
only been there a few months.That's what has your experience been like.
And look, if it's bad,he's fine. He can't even hear you.
He's not even wearing headphones right now. The thing that has been so
enlightening to me is really learning.When I before I started working Children's Smile
Center, I was excited about whatthis will do for children for their self
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confidence. You know, as kids, if they get picked on in the
playground, if they have bad teeth, and this I can help educate them
and help show them a resource toimprove that. So I go to schools
and talk to children about education ororal health education. Some of these kids
their parents don't take them. SomeI've heard kids say, well, my
parents don't have any teeth. Mydad lost all his teeth because they didn't
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see the importance and oral hygienes.So be able to show them how to
empower themselves and take care of themselvesand how the importance to have a healthy
smile. Yeah, that's been reallyfun for me. That's awesome. Man
and the facilities pretty great. I'msure you've been around to all of them
now, right, yes, yeah, you have a favorite one, yeah,
well, Ozark's my favorite, justbecause that's our home office. But
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it is really neat because they comein and it's decorated, you know,
the rooms have different themes and itmakes it very inviting for kids or things
for them to do. We also, you know, make the parents feel
welcome, and the staff is justincredible. I love hearing the dental assistants
and the dentists even how they supportthe children and make them feel confident and
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they're like, you did so good, You're so great, and it's it's
really neat to hear that. Iwould imagine having a just a children's specific
dentist's office is a lot like apediatric wing of a hospital, where it
really does get to cater to kidsand make them feel even more welcome.
I know, I never had achildren's dentist growing up. It was just
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a sterile, cold office, youknow, And it must be because I
hated it. I hated going asa kid. So like knowing now that
like there was a place like thatpossibly available really makes me kind of dislike
my parents a little bit. Andthere's even the No Cavity Club wall where
they get to sign the wall ifthey have no cavities, so they're proud,
they're proud of their work and itmakes them feel important. That sounds
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so cool. If somebody is listeningand they want information, like I didn't
know this place existed. This maybesounds like something we could do with our
kids. We've been looking how wouldthey go about finding information and getting in
touch with you all. The placeto start would be, of course,
you're going to go to the Facebookpage anyway to look up eighteenth annual Hot
Air Balloon Glow and also Sertoma DuckRays Festival. But at those Facebook pages
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you'll be able to link to theChildren's Smile Center Facebook page and then their
website, which will give you moreinformation about what we're doing. I've got
just I just I've got just theright idea for you. You know,
we are going through the motions rightnow of preparing for a new facility.
We're in that process. Cool lookit into that and you know, for
the right amount of zeros, Ican see it now. The sign on
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the wall that says the Clint Girlychildren's dental clinic. Oh yeah, you
don't want that. Yeah, I'lltell you for a bunch of reasons,
the first one being I'm sitting overhere across chewing tobacco like a country hick
in the studio. You do notwant me as the face of your children's
class on Now, Clint, Idid preface that, you know, with
the right amount of zeros on thepiece of paper with your signature. All
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right, we could do that.So, yeah, we are so blessed
with organizations and individuals that like whatwe do and they're fired up about our
work and they want to get behindus and support us. We have just
a few events every year that wedo, but this is our biggest and
best. And you know, Ihave people that will hand me checks to
the Smile Center the night of theballoon globe. That's cool. They like
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what we're doing, and you know, that's the simple way to do it.
And you can get in touch withus, and if you really want
to get invested and learn more abouthow you can be involved, you can
catch up with us. Send usa note through Facebook and we'll follow up
with you. I have a coupleof minutes left. I want to tell
one dentist story if I can,because it just happened with my five year
old son. He's five. Yeah, he's five. We don't talk.
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He's great. That's a fisherman.He's a fisherman, got kid, I
tell you. We were yesterday downthere and he did. I didn't have
to do anything, which was veryweird for a five year old kid.
The only thing like I did forhim was if you'd tell me, like,
Dad, you need to get thisboat closer to that little cut over
there so I can get you know. But he's putting on his own baits.
He's doing his own thing. Heis. Uh. We took him
to the dentist and he needed toget a filling, and it was his
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first one ever. And it's he'sbeen to the dentist with a sister before
and has seen her get like orthodonicsdone, but like this was kind of
a big deal. What is itgonna be? We took him out of
school for the day, like whoknows, you know. So we get
in there and the doctor, thedentist, sits down and he goes,
it's all right, so we're gonnado this filling part here, But first
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we're gonna give him the shot,and then we're gonna give him the and
what is it they putting the maskon your face? Nitrous? Yeah,
nitrous? Yeah right? And Ijust I looked at my kid, knowing
his personality, and I was like, I'm pretty sure you can just give
him the shot. Man, like, I don't think he needs the nitrous
for you to give him the shot. He's five years old, mind you.
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And they're like, we've we've neverhad a five year old who we
didn't give the nitrous too to calmhim down. And I was like,
I think you can just try it. I don't think my kid even flinched
in there. They like four timeswith that novacane shot, and as they
had the TV on the ceiling,bluey right, just blue is all he
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cared about. I don't even knowif he noticed the needle going in.
Maybe one time he's like that's weird, but yeah, just knocked it out
and I was like, Okay,that kind of gives me. And I'm
not saying this just a brag,although it was a pretty big brag on
the toughness of my kid, butthat was clearly a room set up for
kids to be able to watch cartoonsor something on the ceiling and watching those
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cartoons. That distraction is a formof anesthesia. Yeah. In fact,
I remember hearing from a professional onetime. Distraction is the number one form
of anesthesia. But just that littlething that was catered towards kids made the
experience that could have been bad thatmuch better. And it's very cool to
hear you guys are doing that onjust a much, much, much larger
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scale for many, many, manymore kids every day. Yeah, that's
amazing every day. The website isChildrensmile Censer dot org and of course the
eighteenth Annual Glow Festival. The Facebookpages, that's what it is. I
think Daniel Hot Air Balloon Glow isone Facebook page and then the other Facebook
pages Sirtoma Duck Race Festival. We'reone of the charities that benefit from the
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Sirtoma Duck Race Festival as well,so we've got two different things going on.
But the big thing for us isthe Hot Air Balloon Glow. June
twenty first, it's going to begreat Friday. Make plans. Friday is
the best day, by the wayto do stuff because we never have anything
going on on Friday. It's alwaysSaturday stuff right, so some Friday night,
a really really cool experience that yourkids and you as a family can
just enjoy together. You can getall the information at those Facebook pages.
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Sandy, thanks for coming in,Thanks having We did fine. Thank you.
It wasn't great, gre it wasfantastic. Sandy Johnson is the community
relations director, and of course JackieBarge You're back again, is the executive
director of the Children's File Center.Thanks for being here, guys, Thanks
Clint, and for you listening.Thank you for being here as well.
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rest of our staff. Have agreat rest of your day.
Well, hello, and welcome toa show that we call iHeart the Ozarks.
This is a half hour long showthat airs across all five of our
iHeart radio stations here in Springfield.My name is Clint Gurley. I am
the What am I just some guy? I don't mean what's my title?
It's like vice president or something orother. But happy to be with you
today and excited we get to talkto a buddy of mine and a new
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friend, both from the Smile Centerof the Children's Smile Center. Excuse me,
because there's like four or five differentones, Jackie, that all have
very similar names. There's a lotof them that have the word smile in
it. Yeah, you gotta bespecific about which one you're going for.
We are Children's Smile Center, Sothat's Jackie Barger. He is the executive
director, also joined by Sandy Thomps. Is this your first ever radio thing
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that you've ever done? Well?I have some history. I have recorded
a couple commercials in the past,so but this is my first time with
you. Never done like a sitdown, long long form interview type of
thing. Very first time. Alot of politics, a lot of religion.
Oh great, perfect, be readyOkay, we're going to jump in
all of it. I'll talk aboutall our exes also, yeah, sure
if we have time. I mean, don't push it. Sandy Gee's man,
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right out of the gate. I'mexcited, man, I am,
because you guys do one of thecoolest events of the entire year. It
is just kind of a breathtaking site. And every year I don't go because
I don't leave the house, butI see the pictures and I go,
Man, one of these days,that's right, I'm taking the kids.
You should and I'm going you should. You gotta do it, all right,
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Let's talk about the big event comingup June twenty first, Jackie,
I'll let you just go all right. The eighteenth annual Hot Air Balloon Glow,
presented by Ozarkschrivrolet, will be Friday, June twenty first, in downtown
Ozark on the banks of the FinleyRiver down in the park by the Ozark
Mill. And we're so excited tobring this event again for another year to
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southwest Missouri. Now here's what happensabout eight o'clock between eight and eight thirty,
anywhere from six to ten Humongos hotair balloons are gonna set up and
inflate. It's not going to bea flight, not going to be a
launch. You can't do that atnight because of the FAA. They have
rules about that. But the balloonswill be on display. When I say
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on display, words cannot begin todescribe how awesomely majestic, dynamic, beautiful,
awe inspiring it is. You've gotto see it to believe. It
will have between oh, I'd sayat least fifteen thousand, maybe as many
as twenty thousand people that will becoming down to this little area in the
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park to see this spectacle. Andthat's the word, is a spectacle.
And we're just thrilled that we canbe a part of bringing this event once
again to southwest Missouri and surrounding states. I mean, we've got four or
five states every year that are representedcoming to this event, and our balloon
pilots come from all over Missouri.I think we still have one guy from
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Arkansas. We did have one personfrom Kansas, but balloon pilots from all
over the state of Missouri that drivedown and set up and be a part
of this great event. So howdo so at eight thirty I know this
because my son and I were fishingyesterday and we were like, all right,
we got to go back and itwas eight thirty. We're on the
boat and we took twenty five minutesto get back to the dock and it
was still very light outside. Itnine pm. But after that it gets
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kind of dark. How do yousee these balloons? Well, so this
is like, how do I describethis? This is the most amazing light
show because whenever the balloons inflate,they use their propane burners to That's why
it's called a hot air balloon.The propane burner will provide the hot air
that fills up the envelope. Thenthe envelope will stand up straight. And
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then the propane burner has an attachmenton it because as you know, I'm
sure propane burns invisible. Sure,but they have an attachment on the burner
that changes the air mix that thenthe flame becomes visible. Oh cool.
When that flame becomes visible, itturns into just like the science of a
little four inch tall light bulb,there's a filament in the light bulb.
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It's small, but it makes theentire bulb glow. Well, that's exactly
what happens to the hot air balloonsthe propane gas when it is when the
burner uses the right mix and theflame is visible. Then that flame then,
which can be is ten to fifteenfeet high. That flame then lights
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up the entire balloon, just likea light bulb. Yeah, and then
so the pilots spend a lot oftime, you know, grab it on
the cord to make sure the balloongets lighted up. Now, when let's
say seven or eight balloons are doingthis at the same time, you know,
they light up each other almost Andit's just amazing to see how tall
are the things. You know whatthe average height I guess would be between
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seventy and one hundred feet tall,which if you're standing on the ground,
that is a that's a big thing. I think. I think if you
inflate one balloon it becomes the secondtallest building in Southwest Surrey. Possible.
Yeah, it's possible. Yeah,But they're just massive and awe inspiring.
And to stand on the ground rightto them, yeah, you feel pretty
small and it is amazing. Soanyway, there's the basket at the bottom
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of the balloon. That's where thepilot hangs out, that's where the burner
is, that's where his propane thingsare. But the basket also there's room
for maybe two or three other peoplein there. And once the balloons get
set up, you know we're goingto say have ten to fifteen to twenty
thousand people milling around. You cango up and talk to the pilots,
take pictures, learn more about hotair balloons. You'll pull the cord which
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turns the burner on with a flame. And one of the pilots told me
a few years ago, they said, this propane burner puts out one million
btu. That's a lot of energy. That's a ton man like fifty feet
away. You can feel a littlebit of the heat, but it's pointed
straight up, so you're just gettingsome of the extra Where do they even
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keep it? Like now we're justget into the hot air ballooning, But
like I have a propane thing orused to next to my grill. Yeah,
right, and that goes out.I once a summer I got to
go take it in. That burnsit like maybe seven b tu. I
don't know what, but like,come on, a million going in there?
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Did they just have giant cash ofpropane paying off the balloon? They
do have several tanks that they willfill. And you know, we work
out all the details for this event, and we have one of our fine
sponsors that is a propane company thatwill go park behind the fire station and
at the end of the event,the pilots will all pull their trucks and
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their trailers up and they will refilltheir propane tanks at the end of our
event. Now, there have beentimes. I remember when we had our
Pandemic show in twenty twenty, Iguess it was we had it at an
alternate site and it was a drivethrough only, and our pilots went till
they ran out of fuel. Wow, because we had so many people in
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line from miles it was a mess, but they were going till they ran
out of fuel. We don't likereally doing that all the time time,
So about sixty to ninety minutes iswhat they're going to do. That's physically
also about the limit of what theycan do themselves personally a piloting crew,
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because it's it's strenuous. If there'sthe slightest breeze, they're working hard on
the ground. Yeah, So besidesthese balloons, what elsees glow all about?
Like, what are people doing there? On site. I mean,
that's a lot of people. Man, what the at the perfect lead in
so our hot Air Balloon Glow isit's our own independent event. It's our
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largest fundraiser of the year for theSmile Center. But we bring this event
inside the schedule of the two daySirtoma Duck Race Festival Gotcha, which is
also a charity fundraiser, and theSirtoma Duck Race Festival. The ground's open
at five pm on Friday and itgoes through late late late Saturday night,
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the twenty second. There are tonsof things going on connected to the Sirtoma
Duck Race Festival that are around ourBalloon Glow. So if you come for
the Balloon Glow, there are goingto be dozens of food and drink vendors.
There's a huge kid zone with ridesand attractions and bounce houses and things
for little kids to do. There'sa live music entertainment stage that has acts
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going during different times of the evening, arts and crafts and small business vendors
that are all over the park.There's just a ton of things going on
on Saturday, wide variety of things. There's a five k run first thing
in the morning, there's a carshow for a few hours in the afternoon,
there's a pie eating contest. Again, there's live music throughout the day,
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and again the kid zone and allthe food and drink vendors, and
then the duck race itself is aboutseven o'clock on Saturday evening, then some
more live music and then the bigfireworks show. It's going to be to
end the evening late Saturday night.So for the balloons, it's Friday night,
right, kicks off around eight eightor eight thirty, eight thirty something
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like that, and then they gofor ninety minutes. So you got a
window to go ninety minutes. Howdo folks get information about like how to
just maybe just this specifically, likeget to the glow festival? Yep,
We've got a Facebook page eighteenth AnnualHot Air Balloon Glow on Facebook. And
where as we get closer to theevent, which is like starting now,
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we're going to have a lot moreinstructions for people about what they can do,
where they can go. It isfree to attend. The event is
free to attend. There will bea probably a ten dollars per car parking
fee that goes to the Sertoma DuckRace Festival. They operate all of the
parking. There's tons of off siteparking at the high school. Again ten
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dollars a car, and then youcan ride a shuttle bus down nice to
get to the grounds. If youshow up at five pm, which is
when the ground's open, they'll besome parking available at the Duck Race Festival
site itself, the Finley River Parkright there at the McCracken bridge. It'll
fail up pretty quick. But likeI say, if you come at five,
you might get a parking spot atthe park itself, but if not,
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offsite parking with shuttle bucks, gotcha. And then you'll be updating information
on the Facebook page. You justlook for eighteenth Annual Glow Fests. Okay,
awesome, that's on Facebook. Sandyhasn't said a word yet, and
we've been talking for at least anhour at this point. Right. Have
you been to this before, Sandy? Yes, I have been as a
spectator. Yeah, okay, Sothat's what I'm curious about, because I
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mentioned earlier, like I it's veryrare that I leave just the house or
the confines of my little area inRepublic, right, So just coming here
today to the studio. Big dealfor me, never having gone to this
before as a spectator. Tell meabout your experience. Yep, so I
actually excuse me. A couple yearsago had family from Texas in town,
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and so it was great because theygot to go see it. We went
down to the Finlay River Park.We were able to park, go,
set up our blanket, spread outyour blanket, and kind of wait for
the show to start. So whilewe were down that, the kids kind
of ran around on the kids Zone, did some carnival rides, got some
snacks, and then just the anticipation, anticipation of waiting for the balloons.
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You see the pilots start to getthem out and there's like a stir in
the crowd, and then as they'restarting to light them up, it's just
it is spectacular and you can justsit and you know they're kind of going,
you know, one at a time, and then they're all glowing and
it's just amazing to see. Yeah, it felt good about bringing the kids
there and everything with that many people. Yes, because that's one thing we're
always concerned about it is as afamily with smaller kids, like, Okay,
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it's going to be a big area, like are We sure, but
I mean I think that it's veryfamily focused. There's lots of stuff for
the kids to do and the olderkids do and adults to do. We
felt safe as our kids kind ofwalked around us too. Yeah, very
very nice area. That's great tohear. Sandy Thompson is the community relations
director at the Children's Smile Center andJackie Barger, who he heard, is
the executive director over there. Howdo you guys? You mentioned that this
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is free besides parking fee, butfree to get in. How are you
making money? Really appreciate that,you know, We're so pleased to say
that it's the eighteenth Daniel Hid AirBalloon Glow presented by Ozark Chevrolet. Gotcha.
They've been our lead sponsor for severalyears now. Were so grateful.
And then we've got goodness twenty fiveor thirty other corporate sponsors that write checks
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to be sponsors of the event.You'll see them on our Facebook page.
We're going to talk about them alot. But then they are VIP guests
at our event and they let uscover a few some of the expenses that
we have for the Hotter Balloon Glow, But then most of the funds then
are available for the Children's Smile Centerto use. And what we do is
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make sure we're underwriting our equipment andfacilities that we need to provide dental clinics
for kids in need. Yeah,so I want to get into what the
Children's Smile Center is all about,because you know, I, like most
people have a dentist that we goto good and yeah, look I don't
go very much, don't give no, but we take the kids. We
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even have an orth of downe nowwith my daughter, So like, well,
we're in and out of these dentistoffice and orthodonost office all the time.
And I know how much that costsme every month? Right, what
is the children's spousal? What makesit different? Should I should ask than
just a regular aldentist that we're goingto see you? Bet so. We
are a large nonprofit organization that operatesdental clinics to provide regular dental office care
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to kids who are covered by MissouriMedicaid. Now there's the catch because for
decades, if your only insurance coveragewas Medicaid, you would look near and
far and you couldn't find a dentistthat would accept the Medicaid reimbursement to provide
the care. The reason being thereimbursement historically has been so low, so
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and there's a shortage of dentists generally, so they would have a full client
list and the office schedule is totallyfull with the general public population. Yeah,
okay, So that left even morefrustration for a large population of the
low income that depended on Medicaid providersto provide the care. So for most
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of the children that we take careof, and last year we had seven
thousand patients, wow, that wetook care of. For most of them,
we are the only reasonable access toa regular dental clinic that they have.
Okay, So we have clinics inOzark, in Branson West in southern
Stone County, and then in Aurorain Lawrence County to cover a six county
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area. That's our we call thatour service area. Ye for Christian,
Stone, Tainey, Lawrence, Berryand Dade counties. We can be your
regular dental clinic now. To bereal honest, some of those folks still
drive thirty to fifty miles to cometo our clinic. Well of course,
yeah, but they still tell usyou're the only place we can find where
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we can get our kids in toget regular dental care. Now, I've
said it a few times, regulardental care. So many times there are
parts of the population that are onlyable to access dental care when the bus
is in the school parking lot,when the van is at this location.
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And there's nothing against mobile units thatI'm going to say, but they're limited.
It's not a regular dental experience.Your family, You and your kids
have what we would call a permanentdental home. If something happens that you're
not expecting, you know exactly whoto call, and you know, within
a reasonable amount of time they're goingto work you in for an emergency.
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Sure. Literally all of our patientshave not had that at all. Yeah,
So that's our goal is to establisha permanent dental home relationship. So
we know them, they know us, and you know, we have all
their dental records, you know,in our in our files, and then
we can provide that regular dental experiencethat most of these families haven't had.
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This is going to sound ignorant,but I have no fear of putting my
own ignorance on display. Why ishaving a permanent dental home important, especially
for kids? Absolutely great question.In fact, that's a perfect question.
A permanent dental home is important forchildren to learn Number one, the importance
of oral health. To know thatyou have a partner for your oral health.
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Moving forward, for years, welike seeing kids as young as one
or two years old, and theMedicaid reimbursement provides care in clinics for kids
ages one to nineteen. After achild turns one, we encourage families to
go ahead and make an appointment.For those first few appointments, we call
them happy visits, and for thechild, they can learn that a dental
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office is a fun place to be. Are going to talk about the air
and the water and the different thingsyou do in the mouth, and they're
going to learn that it's fun tobe with the staff at the Smile Center,
and the dentists are going to bethey're trained and have experience to make
the experience positive and good. Andthen so we have hundreds and hundreds of
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families that we can look back intheir records and they bring their child every
six months for years, they workhard to try to do a good job
at home, brushing, flossing,rinsing, trying to stay away from sugar,
trying to reduce the sugar drinks.But if they're doing that, we'll
see years of these visits every sixmonths and very very few times where they
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need us to do restorative work.A hygiene visit would be a checkup,
clean X rays, and florid fluoride. A restorative visit would be let's say
we need to do a filling,or we need to do a root canal,
or a polpotami and a crown,or maybe there needs to be an
extraction or for whatever. If families, for the most part, can pay
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attention to the big things on theprevention side, we will prevent the need
for the restorative side. Sure,that's the long term goal of a permanent
dental home is for it to preventthe need for invasive restorative work. Sure,
so I understand the importance of whyfor an individual child going to the
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dentist on a regular basis and establishingthat as a routine thing is important for
their health for their moving forward inlife into adulthood. Being a nonprofit,
why would you say it is importantfor our community to support something like this
like the Children's Smile Center. Numberone would be the need? Sure,
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in terms of thousands of kids thatdon't have access to a regular dental experience,
there's the need and when children donot have our families do not have
access to care for their children.They're faced with dealing with emergencies or temporary
situations that are highly stressful, anda permanent dental home can take the edge
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off of some of those emergencies,or with good care over a longer period
of time, prevent the need forthe emergencies even happening. Have you guys
seen the number of kids you're seeingincrease or decrease or stay flat over the
last few years, different ways oflooking at it. There was a very
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big bulge of an increase in thepandemic because there were children eligible for Medicaid
and as long as the pandemic wasin place, that was until what May
of twenty three, I think theywould not remove children from the Medicaid access,
So there was a big, bigbulge of that increase. There are
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always families that are going in andout of Medicaid care and some of the
neatest stories is talking to a familythat you know what, I took my
kids to a good friend of oursdown in Stone County said he was helping
us with our fishing tournament. That'sanother event that we do in May every
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year. And his wife was asking, now, this Children's Smile Center is
like, Honey, don't you remembera few years ago when things were tough
we had to take our kids thereAnd she said, oh, and it
all came back to her in termsof what we were able to offer in
terms of families are proud to taketheir kids to the Smile Center. They're
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not treated like a number. They'retreated with dignity and respect, and we
want to have a positive, funexperience for the kids. And that's important
to help families at a time whenthey need it. Now their kids aren't
covered by Medicaid. Now things aregoing well in their family, but they
look back with great fondness on theability to make sure you know, parents
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want to take care of their kids. Yeah, and that's what we were
able to provide for them. JackieBarger is the executive director of the Children's
Smile Center and Sandy Thompson, whowe've talked to briefly. But I do
want to get because you're relatively newto the Children's Smile Center. Yes,
that's right, Well, tell meabout your experience so far. There.
I mean Jackie, Jackie will talkit up all day long because that's what
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he's done for one hundred years.Right, he's worked there, But you've
only been there a few months.That's what has your experience been like.
And look, if it's bad,he's fine. He can't even hear you.
He's not even wearing headphones right now. The thing that has been so
enlightening to me is really learning.When I before I started working Children's Smile
Center, I was excited about whatthis will do for children for their self
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confidence. You know, as kids, if they get picked on in the
playground, if they have bad teeth, and this I can help educate them
and help show them a resource toimprove that. So I go to schools
and talk to children about education ororal health education. Some of these kids
their parents don't take them. SomeI've heard kids say, well, my
parents don't have any teeth. Mydad lost all his teeth because they didn't
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see the importance and oral hygienes.So be able to show them how to
empower themselves and take care of themselvesand how the importance to have a healthy
smile. Yeah, that's been reallyfun for me. That's awesome. Man
and the facilities pretty great. I'msure you've been around to all of them
now, right, yes, yeah, you have a favorite one, yeah,
well, Ozark's my favorite, justbecause that's our home office. But
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it is really neat because they comein and it's decorated, you know,
the rooms have different themes and itmakes it very inviting for kids or things
for them to do. We also, you know, make the parents feel
welcome, and the staff is justincredible. I love hearing the dental assistants
and the dentists even how they supportthe children and make them feel confident and
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they're like, you did so good, You're so great, and it's it's
really neat to hear that. Iwould imagine having a just a children's specific
dentist's office is a lot like apediatric wing of a hospital, where it
really does get to cater to kidsand make them feel even more welcome.
I know, I never had achildren's dentist growing up. It was just
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a sterile, cold office, youknow, And it must be because I
hated it. I hated going asa kid. So like knowing now that
like there was a place like thatpossibly available really makes me kind of dislike
my parents a little bit. Andthere's even the No Cavity Club wall where
they get to sign the wall ifthey have no cavities, so they're proud,
they're proud of their work and itmakes them feel important. That sounds
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so cool. If somebody is listeningand they want information, like I didn't
know this place existed. This maybesounds like something we could do with our
kids. We've been looking how wouldthey go about finding information and getting in
touch with you all. The placeto start would be, of course,
you're going to go to the Facebookpage anyway to look up eighteenth annual Hot
Air Balloon Glow and also Sertoma DuckRays Festival. But at those Facebook pages
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you'll be able to link to theChildren's Smile Center Facebook page and then their
website, which will give you moreinformation about what we're doing. I've got
just I just I've got just theright idea for you. You know,
we are going through the motions rightnow of preparing for a new facility.
We're in that process. Cool lookit into that and you know, for
the right amount of zeros, Ican see it now. The sign on
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the wall that says the Clint Girlychildren's dental clinic. Oh yeah, you
don't want that. Yeah, I'lltell you for a bunch of reasons,
the first one being I'm sitting overhere across chewing tobacco like a country hick
in the studio. You do notwant me as the face of your children's
class on Now, Clint, Idid preface that, you know, with
the right amount of zeros on thepiece of paper with your signature. All
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right, we could do that.So, yeah, we are so blessed
with organizations and individuals that like whatwe do and they're fired up about our
work and they want to get behindus and support us. We have just
a few events every year that wedo, but this is our biggest and
best. And you know, Ihave people that will hand me checks to
the Smile Center the night of theballoon globe. That's cool. They like
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what we're doing, and you know, that's the simple way to do it.
And you can get in touch withus, and if you really want
to get invested and learn more abouthow you can be involved, you can
catch up with us. Send usa note through Facebook and we'll follow up
with you. I have a coupleof minutes left. I want to tell
one dentist story if I can,because it just happened with my five year
old son. He's five. Yeah, he's five. We don't talk.
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He's great. That's a fisherman.He's a fisherman, got kid, I
tell you. We were yesterday downthere and he did. I didn't have
to do anything, which was veryweird for a five year old kid.
The only thing like I did forhim was if you'd tell me, like,
Dad, you need to get thisboat closer to that little cut over
there so I can get you know. But he's putting on his own baits.
He's doing his own thing. Heis. Uh. We took him
to the dentist and he needed toget a filling, and it was his
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first one ever. And it's he'sbeen to the dentist with a sister before
and has seen her get like orthodonicsdone, but like this was kind of
a big deal. What is itgonna be? We took him out of
school for the day, like whoknows, you know. So we get
in there and the doctor, thedentist, sits down and he goes,
it's all right, so we're gonnado this filling part here, But first
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we're gonna give him the shot,and then we're gonna give him the and
what is it they putting the maskon your face? Nitrous? Yeah,
nitrous? Yeah right? And Ijust I looked at my kid, knowing
his personality, and I was like, I'm pretty sure you can just give
him the shot. Man, like, I don't think he needs the nitrous
for you to give him the shot. He's five years old, mind you.
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And they're like, we've we've neverhad a five year old who we
didn't give the nitrous too to calmhim down. And I was like,
I think you can just try it. I don't think my kid even flinched
in there. They like four timeswith that novacane shot, and as they
had the TV on the ceiling,bluey right, just blue is all he
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cared about. I don't even knowif he noticed the needle going in.
Maybe one time he's like that's weird, but yeah, just knocked it out
and I was like, Okay,that kind of gives me. And I'm
not saying this just a brag,although it was a pretty big brag on
the toughness of my kid, butthat was clearly a room set up for
kids to be able to watch cartoonsor something on the ceiling and watching those
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cartoons. That distraction is a formof anesthesia. Yeah. In fact,
I remember hearing from a professional onetime. Distraction is the number one form
of anesthesia. But just that littlething that was catered towards kids made the
experience that could have been bad thatmuch better. And it's very cool to
hear you guys are doing that onjust a much, much, much larger
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scale for many, many, manymore kids every day. Yeah, that's
amazing every day. The website isChildrensmile Censer dot org and of course the
eighteenth Annual Glow Festival. The Facebookpages, that's what it is. I
think Daniel Hot Air Balloon Glow isone Facebook page and then the other Facebook
pages Sirtoma Duck Race Festival. We'reone of the charities that benefit from the
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Sirtoma Duck Race Festival as well,so we've got two different things going on.
But the big thing for us isthe Hot Air Balloon Glow. June
twenty first, it's going to begreat Friday. Make plans. Friday is
the best day, by the wayto do stuff because we never have anything
going on on Friday. It's alwaysSaturday stuff right, so some Friday night,
a really really cool experience that yourkids and you as a family can
just enjoy together. You can getall the information at those Facebook pages.
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Sandy, thanks for coming in,Thanks having We did fine. Thank you.
It wasn't great, gre it wasfantastic. Sandy Johnson is the community
relations director, and of course JackieBarge You're back again, is the executive
director of the Children's File Center.Thanks for being here, guys, Thanks
Clint, and for you listening.Thank you for being here as well.
If you caught this maybe halfway throughand you want to hear the whole thing,
(28:57):
you could find the podcast on iHeartRadioShock. It's on our giant platform
there, the number one podcast appin the entire world. Just search iHeart
the OZ actually can find this episodeas well as all of our back episodes
with other great organizations there as well. So for myself Clint Gurley not sponsoring
a dentist center yet possibly, thanksso much for being here and for the
(29:19):
rest of our staff. Have agreat rest of your day.
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