Texas dentist pulls off miraculous makeover for man without him even knowing it

A Texas dentist helped a Marshall man transform his life by making over his smile, without him even knowing it.  

Dr. Kenny Wilstead offered to fix Dillon Moore’s damaged teeth one year when he came across him on Facebook and noticed he never smiled, but Moore couldn’t take off work to come in for the procedure, so he thought that was the end of that.

Fast forward to one year later and Moore found himself on the receiving end of a free extreme makeover, just two hours after sitting down in the dentist’s chair at Marshall Family Dental and thinking he was only going to have a tooth pulled.

‘I was wondering what was taking so long,’ Moore said through happy tears, while laughing and grinning from ear to ear with his new pearly whites in full view, in a video shared to Facebook on September 18 by Wilstead.

‘I haven’t smiled since I was a kid without my hand over my face,’ he said.

Now, Moore’s Facebook profile photo features the toothy grins of not only his children, but him, too.

‘Today was a first….actually pulling off a smile makeover without the patient even knowing….,’ Wilstead wrote with the post.  

Wilstead explained how he came across Moore randomly on the social networking site and noticed his lack of smile. 

Moore’s ‘before’ photo showed badly decayed teeth across the front of his mouth, that seemed like they were barely hanging on.

Moore’s ‘before’ photo showed badly decayed teeth across the front of his mouth, that seemed like they were barely hanging on

The two connected over social media one year ago, when Wilstead noticed the father of two never smiled with his teeth in photos like this one, so he offered Moore his services then

‘I offered my services to fix his smile and he said that he had so many issues and was hopeful to get them fixed but was unable to get off work,’ Wilstead wrote.

‘He completely forgot about me while an entire year went by and then he got a tooth ache. His boss chose to send him to my office to get his back tooth pulled and gave him a day off to do it.’

As luck would have it for Moore, Wilstead has an excellent memory. 

Wilstead offered to fix Moore’s damaged teeth at the time, but Moore said he couldn’t take off work to come in for the procedure, so he thought that was the end of that; Moore is shown here after his surprise smile makeover was revealed to him

Fast forward to one year later and Moore found himself on the receiving end of a free extreme makeover, just two hours after sitting down in the dentist’s chair at Marshall Family Dental and thinking he was only going to have a tooth pulled

‘I was wondering what was taking so long,’ Moore said through happy tears, while laughing and grinning from ear to ear with his new pearly whites in full view, in a video shared to Facebook on September 18 by Wilstead

‘I remembered who he was when I saw him AND I remembered what I offered him a year ago,’ Wilstead wrote, seen here giving Moore a hug in his dentist’s chair after the makeover

‘I remembered who he was when I saw him AND I remembered what I offered him a year ago,’ Wilstead wrote.

‘He didn’t recognize that it was me who made that offer but I decided to make good on it either way.’

Wilstead said he ‘secretly numbed way more of [Moore’s] mouth than normal for a single tooth extraction.’

The procedure took two hours to complete, Wilstead said, with Moore’s priceless reaction caught on camera when it was all said and done

Wilstead confessed that after recognizing Moore, he ‘proceeded to do an entire smile makeover without him knowing or even giving [him] permission;’ Moore is seen here in a photo shared to social media before his makeover, when he wouldn’t show his teeth while smiling

He confessed: ‘Then I proceeded to do an entire smile makeover without him knowing or even giving me permission to.’

The procedure took two hours to complete, Wilstead said, with Moore’s priceless reaction caught on camera when it was all said and done. 

‘He then sent me pics of how happy his kids were when they saw their dad smiling for the first time in their lives,’ Wilstead said.

This isn’t the first time Wilstead has done something like this for a person in need, but it was the first time he did it without the person even knowing.

Moore said he thinks what Wilstead does is ‘awesome’ and never thought it would happen for him, until it did. 

This isn’t the first time Dr. Kenny Wilstead has done something like this for a person in need, but it was the first time he did it without the person even knowing; Wilstead is shown here with his wife Anna, in a photo shared to Facebook on March 19