Kandice Andrews only looked slightly nervous as dentist Nebil Hagar bent over her.

"Will it hurt?" she asked.

"Not at all," the dentist responded, as he gently painted bonding material between her front teeth to fill in the five-year-old decay that had eaten away the enamel there.

Upon finishing his work, Hagar handed Andrews a hand-held mirror. 

Despite her best efforts to keep her emotions in check, a few wayward tears began to roll down the petite, bubbly 25-year-old student's cheeks as she inspected her new smile and she whipped out her cell phone to capture an "after" photo.

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"I'm smiling, I'm smiling," she said, a stray tear rolling off her cheeks.

While she had health insurance, a 

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