Mr Anthony Olson

Hello. My name is Anthony Olson. I’m the owner and dentist at Impact Dental and I’d like to share a little bit about who I am. I grew up in the small community of Saint Edward, Nebraska. I felt I had everything because we had nothing and needed nothing. With 4 brothers, 4 sisters, 2 great parents and a great community there was never a thought of needing something. My growth was like many kids growing up in the rural Midwest. Sports and physical labor helped me develop and shaped me for today. I started working regularly at age 12 with summer field work. Detasseling, bean walking, any odds and ends a local farmer could find for a 12 year old. My first “real” job was at 14, outside washing livestock trailers mid winter and many other truck shop duties and farm chores. Fast forward a couple years and you found me up at 4:30am to head to a large hog farm. I did not entirely Love ANY of these jobs, but they would help shape my work ethic and keep me busy when not at football, basketball, or track practice. Although it was still over a decade away, this was the time of my life I discovered my aspirations to become a dentist. My sophomore year of high school, I was at a health career fair at a Nebraska University. At the time, I thought I was there to get a day out of school with my friends. Turned out, it would be where the recruiter for the dental school would tell me that my interests may be well suited for dentistry. After a tour of the dental school and seeing my first surgery and smile transformation, I was all in. I committed the next 4 years into fulfilling the undergraduate prerequisites for dental school. I used a full time construction job to fund college and be ultimately accepted into dental school. Dental school was followed by 2 years and 134 airplane flights to continue advanced training in Implant Dentistry all over the US and Canada. I’ve had the benefit of developing skills that can now be used to help a lot of people. I share openly with you because like many others, my past experiences have shaped me into who I am. My driving desire to learn these skills was due to my father needing these services. I can still remember him using some choice words back in the day when he wore a partial denture. I have been perfecting the craft ever since the day I realized how many people can benefit from our services. You will see this bleed into Impact Dental. Impact Dental came to fruition due to the pandemic in 2020 while dentists were advised to take a break from practice. Although I’m an avid golfer and enjoyed the break, I knew the time could be spent more productively. I, like others, had time to reflect on what we were doing and what we could do better moving forward. My burning desire is to continue the rapid growth of helping more people by allowing them the ability to get affordable and quality tooth replacement options.