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Carrie Webber: [00:00:09]
Welcome to the Jameson files. I'm Carrie Webber and I'll be your host.
On this episode we are joined by Dr. Loeta Robles of Chico California. And we
have the chance to talk about her incredible origin story as her journey in
becoming the phenomenal dentist that she is today. So thank you for being here.
Dr. Loeta Robles: [00:00:34]
This is just wonderful. I just love OKC I love Jameson so it's just been
wonderful visiting with you.
Carrie Webber: [00:00:41]
Well every time we're together we always tend to have these moments like
Oh a love fest yes oh I love it. But I wanted to connect with you in this way
because you have an extraordinary story. I like to call it the origin stories
of great dentists and you have this amazing story of how you found yourself
practicing dentistry at this time in your life. And you know you you are
continuing to experience great success in your practice and there's a lot that
that is behind that story behind the curtain of where you are right now. So I
want to talk about that and how you as the leader of your practice and your
business have have carried vision over vision over vision forward for your
business. But but first please do share with everyone you know this story that
is you becoming the dentist that you are today.
Dr. Loeta Robles: [00:01:42]
Oh yes yes. It is a good story I admit it's it's it's an interesting
story but it started when I was in high school and I answered an ad for
basically like a front office redoing paper charts after school I had zero
interest in dentistry at the time. It wasn't on the radar at all. So I did that
and slowly I learned to become the sterilization assistant there. So
sterilization assistant for ended it being two years and during those two years
you know my mentor Dr. Barbara Beckett told me that I should become a dentist
and I said You are crazy you're absolutely crazy. I'm like that's not
happening. And I said But hygiene hygiene looks great. And what I wanted to do
before was to be a teacher and I thought this would be the best thing because I
can teach people how to maintain the health of their teeth. And that would be
that's what I want to do. So I graduate from high school and did my prerequisites
for dental hygiene school and then went to dental hygiene school at UCSF
graduated moved back to Chico and worked at Dr. Beckett's office. I got a job.
There was an opening there and I was very thankful and I worked there for 14
years as a hygienist. So it was kind of like being at home and I knew you know
the office manager all the assistants. It was just like home and all the
patients. And one day I was seven months pregnant with my second child and I
had this amazing experience at the office and Dr. Beckett wanted me to do some
work and I went home to my husband and I said the most amazing thing just
happened today and I said I just I thought that it was incredible. I was just
warmed my heart and he said you need to go to dental school. And I said You're
crazy. Yeah I'm seven months pregnant with our second child. That's nuts.
People don't do that. So with his encouragement I looked into you know going to
school and I I had since had been so long I had to do some more prerequisite
work and it ended up taking me about six years after I quit my job as a
hygienist to graduating from dental school.
Dr. Loeta Robles: [00:04:10]
I was fortunate enough to go back to UCSF and graduate from there with
my DDS. And that was June 2015. And as soon as I graduated, we had, Dr. Beckett
and I had plans to have me purchase her practice. So I graduated June 2015 and
I purchased our practice October 2015 and it was just like you know a dream
come true really for everybody. Patients were excited I was excited that the team
was really excited and from there you know kind of extending Dr. Beckett's
dream but I had my own and my own vision of what I wanted. And it's been three
