DI RESIDENTS OPEN PEDIATRIC DENTAL PRACTICE ON ISLAND

The Daniel Island News

By Steve Ferber

March 31, 2010

Daniel Island resident Dr. Isabel Driggers ("Dr. Isabel") this month opened her third area office in eight months – arranging to share dental office space with Dr. Zetz of Crescent Moon Orthodontics at 895 Island Park Drive. A pediatric dentist, Dr. Isabel opened her main office in Hanahan in August 2009, just one month after she and her husband Jacob, and their two children, moved to Daniel Island from Louisville, KY. Dr. Isabel then opened a second office in Moncks Corner in early fall 2009, leading up to the March 1 debut on Daniel Island. The Moncks Corner office is similar to the Daniel Island setup in that Dr. Isabel will be sharing space there with other dentists.

Initially, Dr. Isabel (operating as Coastal Kids Dental) will work on Daniel Island two days per month, with plans to see patients here every day as patient demand increases.

Dr. Isabel says that her greatest pleasure is working with kids and getting them out of pain, and that, in a complementary sense, her greatest challenge is "managing those who have had difficult experiences."

Coastal Kids Dental is managed by Jacob Driggers, Dr. Isabel’s husband – a CPA by trade who worked for KPMG in Atlanta for 10 years. Jacob explained that while Coastal Kids Dental will see children from ages 1-18, 80 percent of their current clientele is under the age of eight.

Prior to creating their main office in Hanahan, Jacob said that he and his wife visited numerous pediatric dental practices, with particular focus on office flow and the demographics of the community ("we have to be near the patients"). Jacob added that Coastal Kids Dental is a paperless practice – no paper charts, only digital x-rays. And starting this week, he explained, the office is moving to 100 percent paperless, a "final step to move 100 percent green" and a bid to eliminate "the nuisance of writing the same information over and over again on multiple sheets and at each visit."

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