Star-Journbal Editor
To celebrate the grand opening of his state-of-the-art dentist office, Dr. Brian Kynaston is offering pain-free dentistry to the first 2,908 customers who come through the door.
Pain-free dentistry?
Well, almost.
"We do as much painless dentistry as we possibly can," said Kynaston, who wants his new Hillsboro Dental Care facility, which opened Tuesday at 119 E. Grand Avenue, to brighten the smile of everyone in town.
On the first day of appointments, nearly a dozen dental patients were scheduled to take their turns in one of the gleaming new dental chairs at the 2,500-square foot facility at the corner of Washington and Grand, across the street from city hall.
Hillsboro Dental Care, a satellite office of McPherson Dental Care, will be open from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
As the time for Kynaston to begin drilling drew near, dental equipment contractors, wielding drills of their own, were busy installing the latest and greatest versions of the same equipment used at the parent facility.
"There's still a little bit of work to be done inside, but all of the [dental work areas] will be ready to go," Kynaston said.
"We'll do wisdom teeth, orthodontics, implants, and general dentistry, with lasers and digital radiography. As good as you can get."
Members of the Hillsboro City Council had hoped a new dentist would come to Hillsboro since Dr. R.J. Tippin left town.
On Dec. 5, Mayor Delores Dalke announced that the property for the new facility had been purchased by the Hillsboro Public Building Commission from the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.
The building commission was created to create facilities to improve the general welfare of the town, includ
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ing Hillsboro Community Medical Center and the Hillsboro Family Aquatic Center.
In addition to buying the lot, the public building commission will pay
for the building, and lease it to the dental group on a 10-year agreement.
While the commission approved contracts during construction, the dentists themselves designed the facility, using their own architects and builders for the project.
Kynaston, 35, a former Bethel College fullback who graduated four years ago from dental school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, has been seeing several patients from the Hillsboro area in the McPherson Dental Care office, founded 30 years ago by Dr. Jon Julian.
While Kynaston will continue to live in McPherson with his wife, Emily, and four young children, Hillsboro Dental Care will be staffed by Hillsboro residents, he said.
The Hillsboro office will be staffed by dental assistants Marlene Herzet, Becky Soyez, and Deena Kelsey; hygienists Christy Clark and Andie Dunagan; and front office workers Jennifer Filhan and LaDonna Langley. Some staff members have been working in McPherson, and newcomers have been training in the McPherson office for the past few weeks, he added.
Kynaston plans to make Hillsboro his second hometown.
"We're extremely excited," he said. "Its just been a goal of mine to become part of another community. I really like small towns and the relationships that you get to build with people."
In addition to brightening smiles of people he knows, being a dentist in a small town gives Kynaston a chance to wear a smile of his own.
"I like it when I'm at the supermarket and a little kid comes up and wants me to look at their braces," he said. "Call me crazy. but I really enjoy that."
