Coming next summer: New home for Hometown Dental

By Mary Pieper, Special to the Charles City Press

Hometown Dental, currently located at 114 N. Main St. in Charles City, will be moving to a new location on South Grand Avenue next door to the Super 8 next summer.

Work on the new clinic for Drs. Reed and Addison Faldet, which is being built from the ground up, began recently.

The new building will have a little more than three times the space as the current location.

The Faldets, who took over Dr. Stephen Earney’s dental practice in July 2019 and gave it the name Hometown Dental, say the practice has expended more quickly than anticipated.

“We are kind of space-locked here,” Addison said. “We can’t expand this building.”

The current clinic has three treatment rooms. The new one will have eight.

The Faldets aren’t anticipating having that many more patients right away, but they want to make sure they have adequate room for future growth because they don’t want to have to move again.

Currently if patients call for an appointment, it might be a month before they can be scheduled because of the small number of treatment rooms and the limited staff size.

Reed said he and Addison are hoping the new location “will help us grow our team to better serve our patients.”

“We have three job openings right now, but it’s hard to even fill those positions because there’s not a lot of physical room in the office,” he said.

Because the current staff is so small, “Each does the work of almost two people,” Reed said. “Hopefully we can hire some new people at the new office and alleviate some of the burden on the awesome team we do have.”

Reed said the city helped them speed up the process of moving into a new space.

“They made it easy on us,” he said.

Addison said she and Reed didn’t know anyone in Charles City when they moved to the community, but everyone has been “very sweet and welcoming.”

Reed said the two of them are excited to offer a new building to the patients who have “given us a chance.”