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Carrie Webber: [00:00:13]

Welcome to the Jameson Files. I'm Carrie Webber your host. And on this

episode we're joined by Dr. Cappy Sinclair of Virginia Beach, Virginia. We're

going to talk about his incredible origin story that took him on a journey from

art restoration to smile restoration. So thank you so much for joining it.

Dr. Cappy Sinclair: [00:00:31]

I'm really excited to be here and to be part of this initial launch of

Jameson to doing the podcast is really exciting for me.

Carrie Webber: [00:00:39]

Thanks I'm excited too. I can't imagine anybody else to be launching it

with. This is a great start. So for those of you that don't know Dr. Sinclair

he does practice in Virginia Beach and has some amazing practices there that

he's really launched from a place in just the past few years and that he's just

seeing such great to success and you just keep growing and growing but why

don't you just share a little bit of your your story and just kind of where are

you how you started and where you are now and and what you're working toward.

Dr. Cappy Sinclair: [00:01:10]

Yeah absolutely. My journey into dentistry is a little unusual it's not

the typical "My dad was a dentist" or "I knew a dentist growing

up and had a great experience and wanted to be a dentist". Dentistry for

me was never even on my radar while I was in college I went to school and

actually graduated as an art conservator so I had an art history degree a

biology degree during college I restored paintings and sculptures for the

museum on campus as well as other museums around the Atlanta area. And while I

enjoyed it I wasn't totally passionate about it. It wasn't something that if I

was to keep going I would have had to look for additional education and get my

doctorate and I did didn't have that passion and so I took a year off after

college. I lived in California. I goofed off had a lot of fun. And during that

time it took a lot of self development to me to figure out what am I going to

do next. Yeah and we have a family friend who is a dentist who also restores

antiques. And while it's not art. There's a lot of similarities between that

and he asked me one day if I'd like to come shadow him. And so I went and I

shadowed and I saw what he was doing how he ran his practice and his business.

And I was like I really like this design dentistry style of business and

practice and you're still working with your hands but it has a patient or

personal relationship that I didn't get in the conservation or art world. Yeah

I was very much a technician in a cubicle working on one piece at a time.

Dr. Cappy Sinclair: [00:02:53]

What he was a pediatric dentist though and I knew that I did not want to

be a pediatric dentist. So that was a side of dentistry that I ruled out pretty

quickly.

Dr. Cappy Sinclair: [00:03:05]

And so I had to go back to school take some prerequisites volunteered at

a at a clinic during that year period and applied to dental school and got in.

And then it was just a matter of figuring out kind of what type of dentistry I

wanted to do while I was in dental school and I I'd very strategic and and knew

that I wanted to do the cosmetic side of things and that's really what I

focused most my education on.

Carrie Webber: [00:03:30]

What I helped you get that clarity. I mean you know it sounds like you

really. And as soon as you that that kind of flip that switch off you know you

wanted to to, how did you have that clarity going through school and knowing

what you're wanting to pursue for the future. What got you to that point was it

just it just a true curiosity for the craft or and you know I know you

personally so I know you have an extraordinary extraordinary level of business

acumen. I mean did you have that back then.

Dr. Cappy Sinclair: [00:03:55]

I did not. So a lot of that has been things that I've seen best

practices of other individuals or a lot of the business things that I've