World-class training and techniques. Experience. Customer-centered care.  All apt descriptions of Dr. Johnny Shanks and the team at Golden Oak. 

After managing a successful practice in his hometown of Crossville for the last 10 years, Dr. Shanks is putting the knowledge gained at some of the most prestigious educational programs in the world to use here in Cookeville. 

He stated, “I took a graduate-level program at the Kois Center, which in many circles is regarded as the best education money can buy in the dentistry field. I also went to California and learned a lot of digital workflows surrounding facial scanning that allow us to scan the face and provide a patient with a result that’s custom to them. I learned all those technologies and I brought them here.”

On choosing Cookeville for his expansion and the advanced, in-house imaging and printing options available at Golden Oak, Dr. Shanks said, “The Upper Cumberland needs a comprehensive solution to some pretty bad problems that we have specific to patients. And so, we cater to patients that need some comprehensive solutions. We can literally go from taking records one day, to surgery on the next because we’re vertically integrated; we don’t have to wait around. I’ve seen young guys with beards because they didn’t want to show their teeth come back looking like James Dean. ” He elaborated, “We can prototype 10 different smiles if you want. It creates a system and a process where we can get predictable success.”

With the hesitancy and fear many experience when considering choosing a dentist in mind, Golden Oak was created as an environment of truly judgment-free care.

“It takes courage to even get to the point where you can make a decision to come here. So I’m a really big believer in grace and forgiveness because we all hold on to our past. So much of our past actually reflects through our smile,” he stated. “So when we can love ourselves and forgive ourselves and give a little grace to ourselves, it gives us permission to take action steps to really be who we were born to be. My mother and father told me at a young age, ‘People don’t really care how much you know until they know how much you care.’ Our goal is to help patients transform into who they deserve to be. The beauty of a smile is confidence. A smile is a painting or a reminder, not of the past, but of the future.”

With affordable options, treatment centered around your well-being, and the brightest outcomes in mind, Dr. Johnny Shanks and the team at Golden Oak are ready to create a beautiful future for you, one smile at a time, and they’re just a call away.

– by Andrew Buckner