Healthcare no matter the cost

“There is much more to being a dentist then just doing fillings and cleanings, as a dentist you could also be play a roll into benefiting the community.” Jonathan Nacht the local dentist in great barrington feels like he needs to be a part of the community in more than a few ways. He did not want to just be the guy that fills cavitiesy, he wants to be the person that people in need feel that he helped lots and lots with their health and improving their smile.

Jonathan Nacht, the general dentist in Great Barrington started by enrolling at Syracuse university. Going into Syracuse he had a minor of biology and his major was art history, he graduated in 1991. During his time at syracuse he realized what he would like to do in life. The dentistry business ran in the family, his father was a successful dentist in Florida. “I knew I wanted to follow my dads foot step and be a general dentist.” After syracuse Nacht went to Boston university for graduate school, there he majored in dental medicine. “At that point in my life I did not like dental school at all.” he says.

After the dental school graduation he remembers feeling an immense joy. “After graduation I finally felt free.” He moved to Connecticut then Chicago where he had a baby girl with his wife Jennifer Nacht. After living in chicago for a few years he did not like the midwest or being employed.

He wanted to be the owner of his own dental practice. Nacht moved to the Berkshires in 2004. In 2004 his wife gave birth to a boy, being busy with a newborn it was hard for him to work, but he pulled the trigger of a local practice from a dentist in great barrington. He remembers this year as being very hard for him. “ I was very stressed throughout the whole year.”

As the years past Nacht began to build up a reputation as being on of the top practices in the area. In 2008 the non-profit organization called Western Mass Labor Action reached out to his practice. This organization has a mission to help people in need. The org. Has volunteers who help give food, shelter, and more ways of safety to those who are in severe poverty, have gone through abuse and much other hardship.

They reached out to the Great Barrington dentist and asked if he was willing to work on patients who had not received care or who were at unfortunately low times in their lives. Nacht accepted this request and started seeing different patients with different problems. He performs many different providers on these patients such as fillings, cleanings, and dentures. With new and improved dental hygiene now the patients can return do eating and much pain is reduced. As a result of these patients being at low times they are not able to get insurance or they can not afford regular appointments or treatments. This opportunity WMLA and Nacht give is for no charge.

After patients receive this care they are extremely thankful. “ After they get the help they say that they feel like a new person.” Nacht believes this treatment is very important. He believes that dental care is usually a service that is taken for granted. “Although dental care might not be fun it is very important, with bad dental hygiene your general health decreases severely.”

Nacht believes that everything starts with dental hygiene. “With an improves smile maybe now they are able to secure the job they want at the interview.” with a new smile he believes they will have the confidence to get back on their feet and try new things.

He thinks this is very important because no other dentist town gives this opportunity. Nacht sees up to ten patients a month that are in need of the help. As a result of this care he has helped about 300 patients and he will continue to run this program.

This is Jonathan Nachts practice is great barrington, Massachusetts. 130 west avenue.